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[sufue]

The first holiday-themed mystery I've seen go on sale this season...I'm sure there will be a lot more.

The Gingerbread Cookie Murder, complete with Santa cookie on the cover and recipes inside, is actually a collection of three holiday themed novellas by Joanne Fluke, Leslie Meier, and Laura Levine. All related to gingerbread cookies, of course....

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Gingerbread-C...dp/B005M4U0Z4/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Gingerbread...dp/B005M4U0Z4/

Spoiler:

This collection of three novellas by much-loved mystery authors is perfect for spicing up the season:

Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
When Hannah Swensen finds her neighbor on the floor of his condo with his head bashed in—next to an upended box of Hannah’s Gingerbread Cookies—she discovers a flurry of murder suspects that’s as long as her holiday shopping list.

The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies by Laura Levine
Jaine Austen has been enlisted to help with her parents’ retirement community’s play The Gingerbread Cookie That Saved Christmas. Playboy Dr. Preston McCay is playing the role of the gingerbread cookie when he “accidentally” falls to his death during the final act. Now Jaine must figure out if one of the doctor’s jealous lovers was capable of murder.

Gingerbread Cookies and Gunshots by Leslie Meier
When Lucy Stone discovers the body of a man whose five-year-old son, Nemo, disappeared, she senses foul play. Crumbs from a gingerbread cookie Lucy gave to Nemo are found in the back seat of the victim’s car. With the hours quickly ticking till Christmas, Lucy races against the clock to find a killer before he strikes again.

Includes over 10 luscious holiday recipes!

[GA Russell]

I regularly keep my eyes open for Nancy Drew books for Christmas presents.

THE BEST OF NANCY DREW, CLASSIC COLLECTION, VOL. 1 - $7.95 hardback
The Secret of the Old Clock, The Bungalow Mystery, and The Mystery of the 99 Steps.
https://www.hamiltonbook.com/the-bes...l.-1-hardbound

*****

Nancy Drew Starter Set - Books 1-5 Hardcover - $19.79
#1 The Secret of the Old Clock, #2 The Hidden Staircase, #3 The Bungalow Mystery, #4 The Mystery at Lilac Inn, and #5 The Secret of Shadow Ranch.
https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Drew-St...dp/0448464969/

[sufue]

And another by the same trio, this time themed on candy canes...Candy Cane Murder is $1.99 at Kindle US and also Kobo US, where it's discountable.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001F2T9CM
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B001F2T9CM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/candy-cane-murder-4

Spoiler:

’Tis the season for trimming the tree, caroling, baking cookies, and waiting for Santa to drop down the chimney. But in this festive collection of whodunits, murder is also paying a visit…

Candy Cane Murder by New York Times-bestselling author Joanne Fluke
When a trail of candy canes leads to a corpse outfitted in a Santa suit on a snowy bank, Hannah Swensen sets out to discover who killed Kris Kringle…

The Dangers of Candy Canes by Laura Levine
A wealthy suburbanite takes a lethal tumble off his roof while installing a giant candy cane. Now it’s up to Jaine Austen to sift through a long list of scheming neighbors with dirty secrets in their stockings to expose a murderer…

Candy Canes Of Christmas Past by New York Times-bestselling author Leslie Meier
Lucy Stone must learn the mystery of a glass candy cane found smashed to bits near a corpse—to unlock the doors of Christmas past and find a killer who got away with murder.

Includes over 10 luscious holiday recipes!

Originally Posted by sufue

The first holiday-themed mystery I've seen go on sale this season...I'm sure there will be a lot more.

The Gingerbread Cookie Murder, complete with Santa cookie on the cover and recipes inside, is actually a collection of three holiday themed novellas by Joanne Fluke, Leslie Meier, and Laura Levine. All related to gingerbread cookies, of course....

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Gingerbread-C...dp/B005M4U0Z4/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Gingerbread...dp/B005M4U0Z4/

[sufue]

Almost all of the nine books in Nicola Upson's series featuring Josephine Tey - yes, that Josephine Tey - as the protagonist have dropped to £0.99 each at Kindle UK. The only ones that haven't are the third (Two for Sorrow, £3.99) and the upcoming tenth one, Dear Little Corpses, £4.31, which is due out in May 2022 (UK) or August 2022 (US).

Here's a link for the series webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074CF78...dp_rwt_sb_tukn

And here's a link to a previous post for the ninth book, The Dead of Winter, which doesn't show up on the series webpage, maybe due to the title differences (???): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4163866

[issybird]

We’ve got so far off topic here with the discussion of revised children’s books that I’m going to move the relevant posts to a thread of their own in the Reading Recommendations forum and people can continue the conversation there if they’d like. We could be annoying those looking for the latest cozy or police procedural on sale; no reason for them to have to keep skimming, uh, scanning.

Here’s the link:

Revised children’s books

[Tarana]

11/22/63: Enhanced Edition By Stephen King $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller, fiction Cross post.

[sufue]

Six books in James Patterson's Alex Cross series are on sale for $2.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US. At Kindle US, they are part of the "Halloween Week" sale, ending 31 Oct, so the prices will probably be good through then at both Kindle and Kobo. As usual, though, if you really want any of these, I wouldn't wait.

Titles are:

• Cross Fire, #17
• Cross My Heart, #21
• Hope to Die, #22
• Cross Justice, #23
• Cross the Line, #24
• The People vs. Alex Cross, #25

Price sorted links (have a few strays, so you may have to page down a bit)
Kindle US: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?sea...price-asc-rank
Kindle US/Smile: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/search/?s...price-asc-rank
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...&sort=PriceAsc

[badgoodDeb]

Ok, it's James Patterson. It's time I started collecting these; I like his writing! Got book #1 too, because I have to start reading there. Thanks Sufue!

[sufue]

Although this isn't technically a mystery, it won a CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction, so I'm posting it here, and just cross-posting in non-fiction. Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind, by Sue Black, is a forensic anthropologist's view of our body's bones. Per the blurb:

What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it.

Written in Bone has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B084KJBPZB/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B084KJBPZB/

Spoiler:

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLDEN DAGGER FOR NON FICTION 2021

'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of All That Remains, Sue Black reveals the secrets hidden deep within our bones.

Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it.

Some of this information is easily understood, some holds its secrets tight and needs scientific cajoling to be released. But by carefully piecing together the evidence, the facts of a life can be rebuilt.

Limb by limb, case by case - some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre - Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind.

Praise for Sue Black:

'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian
'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times
'Moving' - Scotsman
'Engrossing' - Financial Times

[sufue]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Ok, it's James Patterson. It's time I started collecting these; I like his writing! Got book #1 too, because I have to start reading there. Thanks Sufue!

YW...

[sufue]

The Lazarus Tree is the sixth in Robert Richardson's Augustus Maltravers series. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017BSKX5U
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017BSKX5U

Spoiler:

The picture-postcard English village of Medmelton is a pretty place for a murder.

The air remains thick with enchantment of centuries past as superstition is nurtured and embraced by many of the residents. Here, the women have strange eyes — one brown and one green — since magic is not a myth in these parts.

When the famous London poet Patrick Gabriel is murdered beneath the legendary Lazarus Tree, Medmelton is forced into the spotlight. The intrusion of the press is not welcomed by the village. They are fiercely protective of their own, refusing to assist the police they resent such interference and wish to safeguard the mystery of the Medmelton murder from outsiders.

Eventually the curiosity seekers drift away, but the mystery still lingers. And Gus Maltravers, at the request of a friend alarmed by the strange behaviour of his stepdaughter, agrees to investigate.

But when Gus begins making Medmelton’s very private affair his business, he finds as many unanswered questions as questionable answers. Farcical rumours begin to fly around the village about his status and in order to enable enquiries he initially does nothing to stop the gossip. It appears that the observations of an outsider uncover things that even the police have missed.

Strange happenings soon come to light. Hideous, unearthly and cruel things have been occurring in Medmelton and painful confessions are forced. … someone in the village is a killer desperate to hide the secrets of past and present at all costs.

Concealing a murder is the least of their worries…

[sufue]

Three years later, again at £0.99. The publisher has changed from Sphere to Hodder & Stoughton, so check carefully before you buy. And of course, there's a new link with the publisher change: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B098D92PW5

Originally Posted by sufue

Still Life is the first in the insanely outrageously nominated/awarded (like, every book has at least one nomination or award, and most have multiples) Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Still-Chief...dp/B004TL27PM/

[sufue]

Dead Reckoning is the eleventh in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LRPDBE
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004LRPDBE
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ackhouse-novel

Spoiler:

Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, psychic Sookie Stackhouse learns that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.

With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his “child” Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot—which is much more complicated than she knows...

[sufue]

Another holiday-themed mystery on sale, but probably not the holiday you're thinking of!

Hallowe'en Party is pretty near the end of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series. It seems to go on sale pretty much every October, although usually a little earlier in the month - Oct 29 is leaving it a little bit late IMO . It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Par...dp/B000FC122I/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Halloween-P...dp/B000FC122I/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hallowe-en-party

Spoiler:

When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party.

At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.

That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...

[sufue]

About a year later, on sale again for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. @Tarana's links below are still good.

Originally Posted by Tarana

Three in Death By J. D. Robb $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
These are popular stories, but not part of the In Death COLLECTION omnibus'.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Death-J...al-text&sr=1-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/three-in-death

Three books in one volume:
INTERLUDE IN DEATH

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it. But her dedication to her job only goes so far. And when a legendary commander sets his sights on taking her husband, Roarke down, Eve will do everything in her power to stop him…

MIDNIGHT IN DEATH

Eve’s name has made a Christmas list, but it’s not for being naughty or nice. It’s for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now the escaped madman is dogging her steps. With Roarke at her side, Eve must stop the man from exacting his bloody vengeance—or die trying…

HAUNTED IN DEATH

At the scene of a murder, Eve uncovers the remains of beautiful singer who went missing eighty-five years earlier. Both victims were shot with the same gun, in a building rumored to be haunted by the singer’s ghost. But Eve focuses her attention on those in the here-and-now who had a bone to pick with the dead…