FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

Talk about missing the forest for the trees (me)!

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

I see that this makes each of the first nine 99P

[sufue]

Speaking from Among the Bones is the fifth in Alan Bradley's excellent IMO Flavia de Luce series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008ZPG8XK
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008ZPG8XK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/spe...ng-the-bones-1

Spoiler:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches.

[Tarana]

In Her Tracks By Robert Dugoni $1.99 Amazon Only
crime - child in peril
I've really enjoyed 2 of this author's books.
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Her-Tracks-Tr...t%2C266&sr=1-1

[ZodWallop]

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The highly acclaimed novel based on America's most infamous unsolved murder case. Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlia's killer in this powerful thriller that is "brutal and at the same time believable" (New York Times).

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia -- and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia -- driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches -- into a region of total madness.

[Tarana]

Death Without Company By Craig Johnson $1.99 Amazon, Kobo
Crime - Longmire series, book 2

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ngmire-mystery
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Without...6235074&sr=8-1

[Dazrin]

The James Bond books 1-14 by Ian Fleming are available for $1.99 (book 1 only) or $0.99 (books 2+) at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0868BYV6R

1. Casino Royale
2. Live and Let Die
3. Moonraker
4. Diamonds are Forever
5. From Russia with Love
6. Dr. No
7. Goldfinger
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Thunderball
10. The Spy Who Loved Me
11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
12. You Only Live Twice
13. The Man with the Golden Gun
14. Octocat and The Living Daylights

Thanks to powerfuldoppler at Slickdeals for this.

[Avice]

A really good deal on an omnibus of classic noir by women from Library of America; four suspense novels for $2.99.

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268): Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall (Library of America Women Crime Writers Collection Book 1)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YKPWMBQ
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wom...-1940s-loa-268

A landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of their mid-century predecessors is largely unknown. Turning from the mean streets of the hardboiled school, these groundbreaking female novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work—influential in its day and still vibrant today—is long overdue for discovery.
Edited by The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman, this collection gathers four classic crime novels from the 1940s: Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery, Laura; Helen Eustis’s intricate academic thriller, The Horizontal Man; Dorothy B. Hughes’s terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer, In a Lonely Place; and Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wartime wife is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened. Together, these underappreciated works reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage of today’s leading crime writers.

Laura and In a Lonely Place were both adapted into noir films with the same titles. The Blank Wall was adapted into the movie The Reckless Moment. The Horizontal Man won the 1947 Edgar Award for best first novel.

[Little.Egret]

£2.02 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YKPWMBQ

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Avice

Laura and In a Lonely Place were both adapted into noir films with the same titles. The Blank Wall was adapted into the movie The Reckless Moment. The Horizontal Man won the 1947 Edgar Award for best first novel.

Thanks for that. I watched In A Lonely Place a few months ago. A terrific Humphrey Bogart movie. Depressing, but good.

Still available on Prime in the USA.

[Tarana]

Presumed Guilty By Tess Gerritsen $1.99 Amazon, Kobo B&N
Crime
Note: the Amazon edition includes an option for the audiobook for an additional $3.49

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Presumed-Guil...s%2C508&sr=8-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/presumed-guilty-25

[GA Russell]

I see books listed as "noir."

Is that the same thing as "hard-boiled detective" or something different?

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

I see books listed as "noir."

Is that the same thing as "hard-boiled detective" or something different?

Something different. Stolen from Wikipedia:

Author and academic Megan Abbot described the two thus:

Hardboiled is distinct from noir, though they’re often used interchangeably. The common argument is that hardboiled novels are an extension of the wild west and pioneer narratives of the 19th century. The wilderness becomes the city, and the hero is usually a somewhat fallen character, a detective or a cop. At the end, everything is a mess, people have died, but the hero has done the right thing or close to it, and order has, to a certain extent, been restored.

Noir is different. In noir, everyone is fallen, and right and wrong are not clearly defined and maybe not even attainable.

Big harboiled authors: Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler

Big noir authors: Jim Thompson, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy and David Goodis

But of course there is lots of overlap once you start trying to pigeonhole subgenres.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Something different. Stolen from Wikipedia:



Big harboiled authors: Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler

Big noir authors: Jim Thompson, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy and David Goodis

But of course there is lots of overlap once you start trying to pigeonhole subgenres.

Thanks Zod!

I'm a long-time fan of Hammett and Chandler, and I don't see hard-boiled detective stories being written today. Instead, I see mostly thrillers for the men and cozies for the women.

*****

These are FREE today.

The Lou Fleener Private Eye Series: Books 1-6
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GVC4LJL

*****

Joey Mancuso Crime Mysteries: Volumes 1 - 3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087YQSR46

*****

Jet Sweep (Burnside Series Book 12)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0951CW2VK

*****

Avengers and Rogues (J.R. Finn Sailing Mystery Series Book 2)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MJCZM78

*****

I don't see a publisher listed for any of these, so if the mods want to, they are welcome to delete these. However, I see that they are all highly rated by many voters.

[cc_in_oh]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Thanks Zod!

I'm a long-time fan of Hammett and Chandler, and I don't see hard-boiled detective stories being written today.

Don't overlook Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer series. Here are some of my highlights from The Drowning Pool:

• Her torso jiggled in the blouse like a giant soft-boiled egg with the shell removed.
  
• I stood still for an instant, caught by my own distorted face, and the room reversed itself like a trick drawing in a psychological test. For an instant I was the man in the mirror, the shadow-figure without a life of his own who peered with one large eye and one small eye through dirty glass at the dirty lives of people in a very dirty world.
  
• Standing in the full glare of the light, she looked like a painted rubber doll, made with real human hair, that wasn’t quite new any more.
  
• The counterman slid a thin white sandwich and a cup of thick brown coffee across the black lucite bar. He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.
  
• I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.
  
• Her eyes were melancholy under heavy lashes, her cheeks faintly hollowed as if she had been feeding on her own beauty.
  
• Hatred flashed in the ocean-colored eyes and disappeared, like a shark-fin.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Don't overlook Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer series.

I agree! My only issue with him is that his stories are very similar.