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[sufue]

More than two years later, again $1.99 in the US...

The link below in @Fbone's post is still good for Kindle, and here's for Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-shape-of-water-2

Love this series...

This title is also in the omnibus, Death in Sicily, which was on sale quite a while ago, so check carefully before you buy!

Originally Posted by Fbone

The Shape of Water (Commissario Montalbano #1) by Andrea Camilleri is $1.99 again at most retailers.

https://www.amazon.com/Shape-Water-I...t%2C170&sr=1-2

[ZodWallop]

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.

The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.

[sufue]

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is a non-series titles that is one of my favorite Agatha Christie books. (Actually, several of her non-series books are among my favorites of all her books...)

I especially like the interplay between Bobby and Frankie as they figure out what's going on, while dealing with various mildly disapproving parental figures. It kind of reminds me of some of Heinlein's "juveniles", which are still great fun for adults to read too. In any case, Evans has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046A9MZO
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046A9MZO

Spoiler:

When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killer…

While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’

Haunted by these words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger…

[sufue]

A couple of years later, again $1.99 in the US...

Originally Posted by sufue

The First Rule by Robert Crais is either the 13th in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series (per SYKM) or the 2nd in the Joe Pike series (per Amazon's blurb) - take your pick . I'm amazed at how many awards this series has won/been a finalist for...take a look yourself at SYKM...

In any case, Rule has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/First-Rule-Jo...dp/B002XW28BW/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-first-rule-1

[sufue]

The omnibus is now $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK. It's a Countdown Deal at that price for about 6 more days. If you didn't buy these before, now's your chance for super-cheap ...

Originally Posted by sufue

The first two titles in the Geoffrey Chaucer series by Philip Gooden have dropped to $0.99/£0.99 each at Kindle US/UK, as Kindle Countdown deals, good for about 6 more days. The remaining two titles are not too badly priced as is at $3.99/£2.99, and there's also an omnibus of all four for $5.99/£4.99, if you want to get them all at once. These were originally published under the pen name Philippa Morgan, but I couldn't find much info on those editions - I'm guessing Gooden has gotten the rights back and is re-publishing them himself.

{edited out the individual books}

Medieval Blood: The Geoffrey Chaucer Mysteries - omnibus of all four titles
Kindle US: https://smile.amazon.com/Medieval-Bl...dp/B08FF2M31P/
Kindle UK: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Medieval-...dp/B08FF2M31P/

[sufue]

The second omnibus in Janet Dawson's Jeri Howard series is free right now at Kindle US and UK. It contains: A Credible Threat, Witness to Evil, Where the Bodies Are Buried, and A Killing at the Track.

The Jeri Howard Anthology: Books 6-9
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MN3RR9Y
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MN3RR9Y

And, the tenth book in the series, Bit Player, is also free by itself right now. So you can get five books free if you act right now .

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R8V32V5
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09R8V32V5

[sufue]

Originally Posted by cromag

Wow, that went fast! It's back up to $9.99 -- at least it was when I just checked.

{edited other info}

Well, maybe Blotto, Twinks and the Rodents of the Riviera will stay at $1.99 a little while longer this time . Info and links in this previous post.

There are also some other titles in the series that have dropped (recently or not) to $1.99 and $2.99...

Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter, #1, $2.99: info in this previous post

Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll, #4, $1.99: info in this previous post

Blotto, Twinks and the Intimate Revue, #8, $2.99, info in this previous post

Blotto, Twinks and the Great Road Race, #9, $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RPM9592
Kindle US/Smile: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RPM9592
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blo...reat-road-race

[issybird]

I ran across a “boxed set” of the first three Erast Fandorin Mysteries, The Winter Queen, Turkish Gambit, Murder on the Leviathan at Kobo UK for only £2.99. If you don’t know these, they’re quirky historical mysteries/thrillers set in 19th century Russian; each is written in a different style. Very good, IMO, and you pick up a fair amount of history while you’re at it. I didn’t check the Amazon UK price but I’d guess it’s the same.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...orin-mysteries

[sufue]

Inspector Maigret Omnibus 2, containing The Saint-Fiacre Affair (apa Maigret and the Countess, Maigret Goes Home, and Maigret on Home Ground), The Misty Harbour (apa Maigret and the Death of a Harbor Master), Maigret (apa Maigret Returns) and The Judge's House (apa Maigret in Exile), is on sale for £3.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZGZDAW4
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZGZDAW4

Spoiler:

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves

An omnibus edition containing four titles featuring Inspector Maigret: The Saint-Fiacre Affair (where Maigret goes back to the place of his birth), The Misty Harbour (where Maigret is left tied up on a rainy quayside all night), Maigret (where Maigret comes back from retirement) and The Judge's House (where Maigret is exiled to a mussel farming community).

Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels.

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian

'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

[ZodWallop]

The Glitter Dome by Joseph Wambaugh is $1.99 at Amazon US.

A New York Times–bestselling police thriller by the author of Harbor Nocturne: Two LAPD detectives look into the murder of a Hollywood studio boss.

It’s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking. Hilarious at times, heartbreaking at others, this book was likened by theNew York Daily News to a “one-two combination that leaves the reader reeling.”

[Tarana]

They Do It with Mirrors By Agatha Christie $1.99 Amazon, Kobo
Cozy


The Name of the Rose By Umberto Eco $1.99 Amazon, Kobo
Historical Mystery

The Hidden Man By David Ellis $1.99 Amazon, Kobo
Thriller - Edgar award winning author

In the Woods By Tana French $1.99 Amazon, Kobo
Thriller

The Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries: Volume One By Charlotte MacLeod writing as Alisa Craig $2.99 Amazon, Kobo
Cozy

Busman's Honeymoon (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries - Dorothy Sayers $2.99 Amazon, Kobo
Cozy

[Apache]

Originally Posted by issybird

I ran across a “boxed set” of the first three Erast Fandorin Mysteries, The Winter Queen, Turkish Gambit, Murder on the Leviathan at Kobo UK for only £2.99. If you don’t know these, they’re quirky historical mysteries/thrillers set in 19th century Russian; each is written in a different style. Very good, IMO, and you pick up a fair amount of history while you’re at it. I didn’t check the Amazon UK price but I’d guess it’s the same.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...orin-mysteries

Thank you for the heads up. They look really interesting.
Apache

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is seven Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum books (numbers 19 - 25) for £0.99 each. Here's the link to the Big Deal webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=4725112031

[pdurrant]

Today's big deal at Amazon UK is all six of Elly Griffith's Brighton Mysteries at £0.99 each:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_...d_i=5400977031

Individually:
The Zig Zag Girl: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00L7SLUJY/
Smoke and Mirrors: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0118MR2UE/
The Blood Card: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01ARXVSPU/
The Vanishing Box: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N0NG4NM/
Now You See Them: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L98DZHJ/
The Midnight Hour: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08NP9XVWP/

I've read the first five and enjoyed them a lot. I've just bought the sixth.

[sufue]

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout is $2.99 in the US again today, and also £1.49 in the UK. Here are links for both US and UK...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003V4BPG0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fer-de-lance-2
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003V4BPG0

More info in this previous post...