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[sufue]

All four are now $0.99 each at Kindle US. Here are links for the series webpage...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077L6JB5R...kindle_edition
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B077L6JB...kindle_edition

Originally Posted by sufue

All four titles in Barbara Nadel's shorter (and probably lesser known) Francis Hancock series have dropped to £0.99 each at Kindle UK.

And the second one, After the Mourning, has been semi-long-term at $1.99 in the US.

{edited out UK links}

[sufue]

Portrait In Death by J. D. Robb is the sixteenth Eve Dallas/In Death title. It has dropped to £2.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003O86FGI
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003O86FGI

Spoiler:

Her face was young and pretty, lips and cheeks rosy. 'She's dead isn't she? In this picture, she's already dead'

New York's top reporter is sent a glamorous portfolio - a beautiful girl in the prime of her life. But the camera lies. A closer look shows the girl's lifeless body held up by wires and clever lighting: immortalised and horrifying.

As the killer plucks more young people from their lives, Lieutenant Eve Dallas tries desperately to find a link. Trusting her instincts and her billionaire husband's shady past, Eve confronts the mounting panic.

But when a killer is consumed by a passionate madness, time is short . . .

[sufue]

Two years later, again $1.99 in the US. Links are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The Hangman's Sonnet is the fourth in Reed Farrel Coleman's continuation of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series. I've mentioned before that I like this continuation of the series, even though I often don't like continuations all that much.

It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, which is a little unusual. More often these titles go on sale in the UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSAN0SV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rob...ngman-s-sonnet

[Cyclops]

I've been away for a while, I enjoy Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books and I was wondering if there are any of his early books available somewhere as ebooks for the Kobo/Sony. I've recently read Cop Hater and Give The Boys a Great Big Hand, in dead tree format.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cyclops

I've been away for a while, I enjoy Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books and I was wondering if there are any of his early books available somewhere as ebooks for the Kobo/Sony. I've recently read Cop Hater and Give The Boys a Great Big Hand, in dead tree format.

The early 87th Precinct ebooks are published as ebooks by Amazon's Thomas & Mercer, so they aren't available on Kobo. If you know how to strip DRM, you can buy them from Amazon and sideload them on your Kobo. That is what I do.

On the upside, they go on sale fairly often.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The early 87th Precinct ebooks are published as ebooks by Amazon's Thomas & Mercer, so they aren't available on Kobo. If you know how to strip DRM, you can buy them from Amazon and sideload them on your Kobo. That is what I do.

On the upside, they go on sale fairly often.

Often enough that myself, I don't post them anymore

@Cyclops, if you put Ed McBain as an author alert into eReaderIQ, you can get emails when the price drops on any Ed McBain title, which in practice turns out to be mostly 87th Precinct, and some Matthew Hope, and only a few of his non-series books.

[sufue]

Now £0.99 at Kindle UK

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KDWTT92
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KDWTT92

And also $1.99 in the US. @disconnected's link for Kindle US is still good, and here's the Kobo link: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lov...g-the-cheetahs

Originally Posted by disconnected

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs (A Royal Spyness Mystery Book 13) by Rhys Bowen is 1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Among-C...al-text&sr=1-1

[sufue]

A huge chunk of Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver series was on sale in the UK a few weeks back, but, oddly enough, not the first two books.

Now, After the Armistice Ball, which is the first in the series, is on sale for £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005E8740W
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005E8740W

And the second in the series, The Burry Man's Day, is also reasonably priced at £1.99.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005E881X6
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005E881X6

[sufue]

Some of the later titles in Kate Sedley's Roger the Chapman historical series have gone on sale reasonably often, but not the earlier ones. Now it seems as if Sedley may have gotten back the rights to some of the earlier titles, since the first five books are recently out (2021) in e-book editions from Canelo.

And right now, the first in the series, Death and the Chapman, is on sale for $0.99/£0.99 in the US/UK, and also discountable at Kobo (new code, "Partners22" for 40% off works).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099ZJ17DB
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/death-and-the-chapman
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099ZJ17DB

The other four are also reasonably priced at £1.99 each at Kindle UK, $2.99 each at Kindle US, and $3.99 each at Kobo US. (But if you use the "Partners22" code at Kobo, they are 2.39 each, and if you have Kobo VIP, which stacks with the code, they are $2.15 each. Remember though, you have to put them one-at-a-time in the cart, and check out separately for each one, since "Partners22" is multi-use, but only once per cart.)

And here are series links for all five...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FL5JDMJ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...a-9d950bea9b74
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09FL5JDMJ

[sufue]

Witness to Evil (Janet Dawson/Jeri Howard) is free again, about a year later...

Originally Posted by sufue

Now a couple of the later titles in this series have gone on sale/free...

Witness to Evil (#7) is free at both Kindle US and UK
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GFM7J6
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005GFM7J6

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[sufue]

Now the second book in the series, Mrs, Presumed Dead, is $0.99/£0.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SBBN4K2
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09SBBN4K2
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09SBBN4K2
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09SBBN4K2

Spoiler:

Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow with a talent for solving mysteries.

Melita moves to a lovely new home in leafy Surrey, where her neighbours are well-to-do young couples.

But then her boiler breaks down, and she tries to get in touch with the former owners, Mr and Mrs Cotton. It turns out they have vanished without trace.

Melita is curious.

She finds out that Theresa Cotton was young, happily married (or so it seemed), and very nice in every way.

Then she discovers a letter with some shocking revelations. Nice Mrs Cotton was mixed up with some very shady characters.

Melita’s determined to piece together the mystery, but her snooping hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Does the killer now have another Mrs in his sights?

Originally Posted by sufue

Simon Brett's Mrs Pargeter series is my second-favorite of his series, after the Blotto & Twinks books. And now it seems that Brett must have gotten the rights back to some of the early titles, because the first four have come out in Joffe Books e-book editions. Which is a good thing, since Joffe tends to put books on sale pretty often, and Joffe books are usually pretty reasonably priced to start with anyway. (And if you have a KU subscription, they are all KU as well...)

Now here's the first book in the series, A Nice Class of Corpse, on sale for $0.99/£0.99 in the US/UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RSZKRQ6
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09RSZKRQ6
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RSZKRQ6
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RSZKRQ6

[Tarana]

The Man Who Died By Antti Tuomainen $.99
Crime. Finnish author

An “offbeat jewel” (Publishers Weekly) of an unforgettable crime novel: Jaakko Kaunismaa is put in the bizarre position of having to solve his own murder after learning he has been slowly, lethally poisoned.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Died-...2728488&sr=1-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-man-who-died-5

The Bone Code By Kathy Reichs $1.99
Crime - Temperance Brennan series
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Code-Tem...t%2C236&sr=1-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=the+bone+code

[sufue]

Several price drops to £2.99 at Kindle UK, which is a bit more than I like to spend for backlist, but some good books, so maybe worth it. Since this is a long list, I'm giving only Smile links - if you want a non-Smile link, just replace the "smile" in the URL with "www".

A Red Herring Without Mustard, #3 in the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004R9Q1NA

Also, The Golden Tresses of the Dead, which is the tenth and most recent title in the Flavia de Luce series is semi-long term at £2.99. Info and links in this previous post.

Lord of the Silent, #13 in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0080K3KF4

And several other books in the Peabody series are £2.99 as well - just click the series link on the webpage for Silent

Blood Shot, #5 in the VI Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008VFMV58

And Hard Time, which is #9 in the Warshawski series
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0096BJGU4

Hush Now, Don't You Cry, #11 in the Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GHK74DI

The Dark Horse, #5 in the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F50EPTM

Last Seen in Massilia, #8 in the Gordianus the Finder series by Steven Saylor
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007NZQCAM

And several other books in the series are £1.99 and £2.99 as well - just click the series link on the webpage for Massilia

[sufue]

It has been three-and-a-half years since this was on sale, and this time it's for a higher price, $3.99/£2.49. But it's normally $11.99 in the US, so even $3.99 can look semi-okay compared to that

The links below are still good in the US, and here's the link for the UK.
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000FCK5TY

Originally Posted by sufue

Locked Rooms is the eighth in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R King. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Locked-Rooms-...dp/B000FCK5TY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/locked-rooms

[sufue]

The first book in the Sarah Hawkswood's Bradecote/Catchpoll series, Servant of Death, apa The Lord Bishop's Clerk, is on sale for £0.99 at Kindle UK right now.

This is a historical series that I had somehow missed until I received a reader's copy of the eighth book in the series, Blood Runs Thicker, a year or so ago, and really enjoyed it. I've since read a couple of others as well, and enjoyed those too. (You can see my review of Blood on my blog - the URL is in my signature.)

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MYTU2FR
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MYTU2FR

Spoiler:

The first Bradecote & Catchpoll medieaval mystery

June, 1143. The much-feared and hated Eudo - the Lord Bishop of Winchester's clerk - is bludgeoned to death in Pershore Abbey and laid before the altar like a penitent. A despicable man he may have been, but who had reason to kill him?

As the walls of the Abbey close in on the suspects, Serjeant Catchpoll and his new, unwanted superior, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote must find the answer before the killer strikes again ...