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[sufue]

A year-and-a-half later, Deadly Trio is $0.99 again at Kindle US, although not, so far, price-dropped at Kobo US. It's also £0.77 at Kindle UK. The link below is still good for Kindle US, and here's the link for Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KD32M7S

Also, if you really want to try the first book in the series, Ice Blue, before splashing out your $0.99/£0.77, it's been a long-term freebie at both Kindle and Kobo, aside from one odd brief blip about a year ago...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UB0WTY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ice-blue
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004UB0WTY

Originally Posted by sufue

Deadly Trio: 3 English Mysteries is an omnibus of the first three titles in the Lord and Lady Hetheridge series by Emma Jameson. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). I've read and enjoyed the five titles in this series.

Titles are:

• Ice Blue
• Blue Murder
• Something Blue

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KD32M7S
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...lish-mysteries

[sufue]

More than three years later, now $0.99 in the US, and still discountable at Kobo US. Links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Three Kings of Cologne is the 16th in the Roger the Chapman series by Kate Sedley. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Kings-C...dp/B00FJ3641W/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/three-kings-of-cologne

[Tarana]

Cockroaches By Jo Nesbø $1.99
Detective - Harry Hole

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cockroaches-J...sr=1-1-catcorr
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cockroaches-3

[JSWolf]

Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny

The Nature of the Beast (#11) is £0.99 in the UK at eBooks.com, kobo.com, and amazon.co.uk in the UK. No specials in the US.

Books 1-6 are available on Kindle Unlimited at Amazon US.
1. Still Life
2. A Fatal Grace
3. The Cruelest Month
4. A Rule Against Murder
5. The Brutal Telling
6. Bury Your Dead

P.S. Excellent series. Well worth reading.

[issybird]

Nine Coaches Waiting by the incomparable Mary Stewart has dropped to 99¢ at Amazon and Kobo and presumably elsewhere.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GW4OZH2/
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nine-coaches-waiting-1

This was one of my top three Stewarts when I read them as a girl (the other two were The Ivy Tree and Wildfire at Midnight); I’m not entirely sure I’ll reread, but I can’t resist having it for a buck.

Crossposted in Romance.

[GA Russell]

Perry Mason

The Case of the Gilded Lily - $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084TLRL47

[sufue]

Blood Business is the 22nd in Barbara Nadel's Inspector Ikmen series. It has dropped to £2.99 at Kindle UK. I haven't yet had a chance to read this one, so I'm pretty happy.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Y9NPWTT
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Y9NPWTT

Spoiler:

Brothers Ugur and Lokman Bulut are locked in a bitter inheritance battle and need a sample of their mother's DNA to contest her Will. But when her body is exhumed, her corpse is found to be missing and a fresh body, with its heart removed, has been put in her grave. Assigned to the case, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman quickly realises that the heart has been illegally harvested, and his team has a murder inquiry on its hands.

Meanwhile, retired inspector Çetin Ikmen is tracking down a missing person: Sevval Kalkan, a once-famous actress, who has joined an underground movement called the Moral Maze, whose mission is to help the destitute living on Istanbul's streets. The unidentified body in the grave cannot be Sevval's, but her shocking reappearance leads Ikmen to fear that she, too, is a victim of organ harvesting...

Joining forces, Süleyman and Ikmen confront Istanbul's darkest underbelly to expose the horrifying truth of a city in crisis.

[sufue]

Almost a year later, back on sale at Kindle UK, for £1.99 this time. Sadly, and unusually for Open Road titles, not on sale in the US, at least as of now.

There was actually an error in the UK link below! Here's the correct one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00USNENPW

Originally Posted by sufue

Slight Mourning is the sixth in the CD Sloan (and Constable Crosby) series by Catherine Aird, who is one of my really really favorite authors. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable), and unusually for an Open Road title, also to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00USNENPW
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/slight-mourning
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00USNENPW

[sufue]

Valediction is the eleventh in Robert B Parker's Spenser series. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SVQD5K
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B002SVQD5K
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/valediction

Spoiler:

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.

So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.

[sufue]

The Butcher Of Smithfield is the third in Susanna Gregory's Thomas Chaloner series. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GW4QB7Y
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00GW4QB7Y
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-smithfield-1

Spoiler:

The third adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.

Having just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain and Portugal on behalf of the Queen, Thomas Chaloner finds London dank and grey under leaden skies. He finds many things changed, including the Government slapping a tax on printed newspapers. Handwritten news reports escape the duty, and the rivalry between the producers of the two conduits of news is the talk of the coffee houses with the battle to be first with any sort of intelligence escalating into violent rivalry. And it seems that a number of citizens who have eaten cucumbers have come to untimely deaths.

It is such a death which Chaloner is despatched to investigate; that of a lawyer with links to 'the Butcher of Smithfield', a shady trader surrounded by a fearsome gang of thugs who terrorise the streets well beyond the confines of Smithfield market. Chaloner doesn't believe that either this death or the others are caused by a simple vegetable, but to prove his theory he has to untangle the devious means of how news is gathered and he has to put his personal safety aside as he tries to penetrate the rumour mill surrounding the Butcher of Smithfield and discover his real identity.

[sufue]

Pale Gray for Guilt has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US right now, even a bit better than the $2.99 from before. Books in this series don’t go on sale very often in the US, so grab it if you want it. The links below are still good.

And it has also been on sale at Kindle UK for £1.99 for a few months, although “Gray” is spelt “Grey” there : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CQ1DJFO

Originally Posted by sufue

Pale Gray for Guilt is the ninth in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Books in this series don't go on sale very often in the US, so grab it if you want it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008WOUMSG
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/pale-gray-for-guilt

[sufue]

Agatha Christie's The Big Four is part of today's US Kindle Daily Deal, on sale for $1.99, and price matched at Kobo US. This is the fifth Hercule Poirot title...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC10T8
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000FC10T8
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-big-four

Spoiler:

Famed private eye Hercule Poirot tackles international intrigue and espionage in this classic Agatha Christie mystery.

Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper?

Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life—and that of his "twin brother"—to uncover the truth.

[sufue]

Uniform Justice is the 12th in Donna Leon's awesome IMO Commissario Brunetti series. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. Leon's titles seem to go on sale really often in the US, but much less so in the UK, so grab this one now if you want it...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GDFQS4
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GDFQS4

Spoiler:

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow students.

The young man is the son of an ex-politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. But as Brunetti - and the indispensable Signorina Elettra - investigate further, no one seems willing to talk, as the military protects its own and civilians keep their own counsel. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy of silence?

[sufue]

Almost two years later, again £0.99 at Kindle UK. The link is still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

The sixth and latest (2019) in Reed Farrel Coleman's continuation of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series, The Bitterest Pill, has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. Although I find many continuations to be sort of "meh", I've liked this one, so happy to see the drop.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0815QNSLJ



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[sufue]

Venus in Copper is the third in the Falco series. It is £0.99 at Kindle UK right now. It's probably part of the new monthly deal, which I haven't had time to check, but if you want to get it for sure, I'd still just grab it now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004NBZFXE
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004NBZFXE

Spoiler:

MARRY IN HASTE. DIE FOR THE MONEY.

Things are going well for Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's investigator: he hates sharing a cell with a rodent, although being bailed by his old mother is almost as embarrassing; his highborn girlfriend can't decide if she wants him and Titus Caesar's reward for past services is disappointing to say the least.

Hoping for a better life, or at least a better apartment, he takes on new clients.

On the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, three freedmen with two flashy wives are under siege by a clever redhead. Severina Zotica has a foul-mouthed parrot, an odd connection with a snake dancer - and a very suspicious past.

As he pursues this flame-haired fortune-hunter, Falco finds himself beset by violent rent-racketeers, poisoners, and women without consciences who have dangerous designs on him...