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Today's daily deal at Kindle US is 72 (!!!) Agatha Christie books for $3.99 or less. Obviously I'm not going to type all 72 titles , so you'll just have to go look for yourself. Whether you want to pick up a bunch or just fill in some gaps in your Agatha Christie collection, today's the day!

Kindle US sale page: https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A7533...7533915011_sar
Kindle US sale page/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A75...7533915011_sar

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Originally Posted by sufue

Today's daily deal at Kindle US is 72 (!!!) Agatha Christie books for $3.99 or less. Obviously I'm not going to type all 72 titles , so you'll just have to go look for yourself. Whether you want to pick up a bunch or just fill in some gaps in your Agatha Christie collection, today's the day!

Kindle US sale page: https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A7533...7533915011_sar
Kindle US sale page/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A75...7533915011_sar

I have no gaps!

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Congrats!

Originally Posted by disconnected

I have no gaps!

[ZodWallop]

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett is $1.99 at Amazon US. Ow wow! It just ended.

This is the Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, so authentic. Boy, that cover seemingly hasn't changed.

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him?

[ZodWallop]

Mystery by Peter Straub is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Straub is primarily a horror writer, but there are no supernatural elements here. Mystery is the second book of a trilogy (after Koko, followed by The Throat). But the trilogy is told out of order. Mystery (set in the 1960's) should stand on its own.

Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.

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A Fatal Lie is the 23rd and most recent (2021) in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd - at least until the new one, A Game of Fear, comes out early next year. It has dropped to $2.99 as part of today's Kindle US Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088RF67WX
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B088RF67WX
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-fatal-lie

Spoiler:

A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body, he isn’t a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard for help.

When Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent from London to find answers, he is given few clues—a faded military tattoo on the victim’s arm and an unusual label in the collar of his shirt. They eventually lead him to the victim’s identity: Sam Milford. By all accounts, he was a good man and well-respected. Then, why is his death so mysterious? Looking for the truth, Rutledge uncovers a web of lies swirling around a suicidal woman, a child’s tragic fate, and another woman bent on protecting her past. But where among all the lies is the motive for murder?

To track a killer, Rutledge must retrace Milford’s last journey. Yet death seems to stalk his every move, and the truth seems to shift at every turn. Man or woman, this murderer stays in the shadows, and it will take desperate measures to lure him—or her—into the light.

[Tarana]

Dead Like You By Peter James $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

FYI - my poor laptop is going in for warranty repair this week. I don't expect it back until January, and my alternative device is a Fire Tablet. So, I will TRY to post deals from that, but if unsuccessful, have a happy holiday season!!

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Good luck with the repair! (And the tablet...) Fingers crossed for you....

Originally Posted by Tarana

Dead Like You By Peter James $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

FYI - my poor laptop is going in for warranty repair this week. I don't expect it back until January, and my alternative device is a Fire Tablet. So, I will TRY to post deals from that, but if unsuccessful, have a happy holiday season!!

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The Owls of Gloucester is the tenth in Edward Marston's Domesday Book series. It has dropped to £1.90 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093P1C62S
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093P1C62S

Spoiler:

The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the murder of one of the monks. The Abbey becomes paralyzed with fear and the Abbot is ill-equipped to deal with such a heinous crime, especially as suspicion inevitably falls on the brothers themselves.

Ralph Delchard, a former soldier in the era-defining Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, an accomplished lawyer, are investigating a local land dispute when news of the vicious murder reaches them. Before long, Delchard and Bret realise that the killing is just a symptom of a sinister presence that threatens the whole community and must be stopped at any cost.

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If you weren't in the holiday spirit before, maybe one of these will help...

All $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US...

Sugarplum Dead, #12 in the Death on Demand series by Carolyn Hart
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OVLJVO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000OVLJVO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sugarplum-dead

Cat Deck the Halls, #13 in the Joe Grey series by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W916DO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000W916DO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cat-deck-the-halls

The Body in the Sleigh, #18 in the Faith Fairchild series by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SR2QGO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B002SR2QGO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-body-in-the-sleigh

O Little Town of Maggody, #7 in the Arly Hanks/Maggody series by Joan Hess
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENRHK8U
Kindle US/Smile: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENRHK8U
Kobo US (discountable, and code "partners" seems to still be working for 40% off): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/o-l...own-of-maggody

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A long long time ago, someone brought a bunch of Willam Marshall's Yellowthread Street books into one of the used bookstores that I used to haunt. I had just been to Hong Kong on a business trip, and so I scarfed the lot, and really liked them. They are a little quirky in the writing style, and I struggled a bit with the first one, but then I caught on to it (or it caught on to me ) and I binged through the rest.

I've wanted to get the series in e-book for a while, and now the 40% off multi-use "partners" code at Kobo, stacked up with my VIP discount, make them pretty affordable ($2.15 each). Keep in mind that "partners" is multi-use, but only once per cart, so you have to put books in one-at-a-time, and then check out one-at-a-time...a bit of a pain, but multi-use Kobo codes haven't been around for a while, so it's nice to see one at all...

So, although these aren't technically "on sale", I thought I'd post since it's a nice use of the "partners" code.

link to the series at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...icationDateAsc

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by sufue

If you weren't in the holiday spirit before, maybe one of these will help...

All $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US...

Sugarplum Dead, #12 in the Death on Demand series by Carolyn Hart
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OVLJVO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000OVLJVO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sugarplum-dead

Cat Deck the Halls, #13 in the Joe Grey series by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W916DO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000W916DO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cat-deck-the-halls

The Body in the Sleigh, #18 in the Faith Fairchild series by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SR2QGO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B002SR2QGO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-body-in-the-sleigh

O Little Town of Maggody, #7 in the Arly Hanks/Maggody series by Joan Hess
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENRHK8U
Kindle US/Smile: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENRHK8U
Kobo US (discountable, and code "partners" seems to still be working for 40% off): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/o-l...own-of-maggody

Hahahaha!

Nothing says "Christmas" like murder.

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K is for Killer is the K-th (eleventh) in Sue Grafton's excellent IMO Kinsey Millhone series. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004P1JFXI
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004P1JFXI

Spoiler:

K is for Killer is the eleventh in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She has also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception, betrayal and unavenged murder . . .

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Now on sale in the UK for £2.99...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N34MC5G
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N34MC5G

Originally Posted by sufue

The Painted Queen is the last in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, finished by Joan Hess. It has been a couple of years since it was last on sale, and it has just dropped again to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, so I'm posting it again. Last time it was on sale, it didn't stay on sale very long, so grab it if you want it!

Info and links in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3590468

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Now $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Link below is still good for Kindle.

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-better-man-20

Originally Posted by Tarana

A Better Man by Louise Penney $3.99 Book 15 in Gamache series. Amazon only so far.

Amazon:https://smile.amazon.com/Better-Man-...s%2C521&sr=1-1

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