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[sufue]

If you missed this a couple of years ago, it's now £1.89 at Kindle UK. Still not a bad price. The link below is still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

As I've mentioned before, Catherine Aird's Inspector Sloan (and Constable Crosby) series is one of my top five favorite series - one of the very few series that I have to read while I'm alone since I'll laugh out loud without warning.

The Stately Home Murder (apa The Complete Steel) is the third in the series and has dropped to £0.90 at Kindle UK - one of the rare sizable Open Road price drops in the UK. The webpage also indicates this is a "Rue Morgue Classic British Myster[y]" - I don't know if this means Open Road has picked up the rights to use the US "Rue Morgue" publisher name, or has just created one of their own, but in any case, the book will be the same .

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00USNENQ6

[sufue]

And eighteen-ish months later, here it is again...

Originally Posted by sufue

Smiley's People by John le Carré seems to drop to £0.99 at Kindle UK every year or 18 months or so, and it is again on sale today, as part of today's Daily Deal. Please note there appear to have been a couple of editions of this floating around in the past, so check carefully before you buy...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smileys-Peo...dp/B07B4PTCXK/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Smileys-P...dp/B07B4PTCXK/

[sufue]

All seven titles in the Inspector Pekkala series are now £0.99 at Kindle UK. There are new series links (see below), and note that the numbering and order are mixed up on the series webpage. And, per SYKM, there are seven titles, not nine.

Amazon UK (entire series): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0991MBGZ1
Amazon UK/Smile (entire series): https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0991MBGZ1

And, there is one title, Berlin Red, which shows up on the series webpage at £7.00, but which has a separate link for a version at £0.99.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01E5JN2G0
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01E5JN2G0

Originally Posted by sufue

All seven of the titles in the Inspector Pekkala series by Sam Eastland (per SYKM, this is a pen name for Paul Watkins) have dropped in price at Kindle UK, mostly to £1.99, but a couple to £2.49. These include, in series order:

• Eye of the Red Tsar
• Shadow Pass, apa The Red Coffin
• Archive 17, apa Siberian Red
• The Red Moth
• The Beast in the Red Forest, £2.49
• Red Icon
• Berlin Red, £2.49

There was an omnibus of the first three titles floating around on sale a while back, and some of the later ones have been on sale before individually, so check carefully before you buy! I've read and enjoyed the first three titles in this series - see "omnibus on sale" above . Also per SYKM, the second one was a finalist for a Historical Dagger back when it was published.

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[sufue]

Naked Once More is $1.99 again in the US. The links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Although I really like Elizabeth Peters' well-known Amelia Peabody series, I like her lesser-known Vicky Bliss and Jacqueline Kirby series just a smidge more. Here are two titles on sale for $3.99 each, one in each series.

{edited other book}Naked Once More is the fourth in the Jacqueline Kirby series.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH3DBRM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/naked-once-more

[sufue]

The Bride's Kimono is $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US right now. The links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The first and the fifth book in the Rei Shimura series by Sujata Massey have dropped to $3.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Not a great price, definitely on the upper edge of what I'll pay for old backlist, but I liked this series in DTB, so thought I'd mention here.

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The Bride's Kimono, #5
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Brides-Kimono...dp/B007SNHQVS/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bride-s-kimono

[sufue]

Death of a Red Heroine is on sale in the US for $1.99, and not too badly priced at £2.99 in the UK. The Kindle UK link below is still good, and I've added the others.

Originally Posted by sufue

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Death of a Red Heroine is the first in the Inspector Chen series by Qiu Xiaolong. I read the first few titles in this series back in DTB days, and really liked them. link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Red-H...dp/B006CUXQNK/

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Death of a Red Heroine at:
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...-red-heroine-2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HYHA0S
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/death-of-a-red-heroine

HOWEVER, be forewarned that the rest of the series hovers around $7.99 to $11.99 in the US, and titles only very rarely go on sale. So if you like this one, and want to read the rest of the series in e-book, you'll either need to be very patient, or cross your fingers that you can find them at your library. Or, of course, spend a lot of money .

They are a little more reasonably priced in the UK, with several at £3.99 and £4.99, and one is actually on sale for £1.99 right now (and discountable at Kobo).

Hold Your Breath, China (#10)
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085LLLW3R
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085LLLW3R
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/hol...breath-china-1

[Apache]

Originally Posted by sufue

Death of a Red Heroine is on sale in the US for $1.99, and not too badly priced at £2.99 in the UK. The Kindle UK link below is still good, and I've added the others.



Death of a Red Heroine at:
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...-red-heroine-2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HYHA0S
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/death-of-a-red-heroine

HOWEVER, be forewarned that the rest of the series hovers around $7.99 to $11.99 in the US, and titles only very rarely go on sale. So if you like this one, and want to read the rest of the series in e-book, you'll either need to be very patient, or cross your fingers that you can find them at your library. Or, of course, spend a lot of money .

They are a little more reasonably priced in the UK, with several at £3.99 and £4.99, and one is actually on sale for £1.99 right now (and discountable at Kobo).

Hold Your Breath, China (#10)
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085LLLW3R
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085LLLW3R
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/hol...breath-china-1

I highly recommend these.
Another reason that taking a virtual vacation to the UK can save you money.
Apache

[sufue]

Yep ^^^

One of my favorite memories from one of the earlier books (can't remember which) was a scene with a Mandarin and a Cantonese speaker "talking" - except that they had to do it in writing, because the written characters are so similar (identical?), but the pronunciations are very different. And then, a few months after reading this, I was on a business trip in Hong Kong, and I saw this very thing happen at a ticket booth in the subway - the ticket seller pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, and the two people were writing to communicate. It's always super cool when background comes to life like that!

[sufue]

A couple of years later, again at $1.99 in the US. I can't find it in the UK any more, and the series webpage goes from #9 to the upcoming #16, and the covers look different, so I suspect publisher issues

The links below are still good in the US...

Originally Posted by sufue

On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service is the 11th in the frightfully cute, but really fun IMO, Lady Georgie series by Rhys Bowen. I really enjoy this series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N023LH3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/on-...secret-service

ADD: also reduced to £1.49 at Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N023LH3

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by sufue

A couple of years later, again at $1.99 in the US. I can't find it in the UK any more, and the series webpage goes from #9 to the upcoming #16, and the covers look different, so I suspect publisher issues

On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service is the 11th in the frightfully cute, but really fun IMO, Lady Georgie series by Rhys Bowen.

You can use eBooks.com to travel to the US and pay with PayPal. The price is also $1.99.

https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/95695430

[sufue]

Murder in Abbot's Folly is now a Countdown Deal for $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK, for only a few more hours. It doesn't seem to be available at Kobo anymore - I think, but am not 100% positive, that you have to be exclusive to Kindle to be in the Countdown program. The links are different now:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087N19L69
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B087N19L69
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B087N19L69
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B087N19L69

Originally Posted by sufue

Murder in Abbot's Folly is the eighth in the Marsh and Daughter series by Amy Myers. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007BEFPT4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mur...bbot-s-folly-1

[sufue]

If you've missed the omnibus of early Simenon/Maigret titles that has been on sale a couple of times in the not-too-distant past, here's your chance to pick up one of the books on sale individually. The blurb says The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, apa The Crime of Inspector Maigret, apa
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets, is the third Maigret title, but SYKM says it's the fourth, and I usually go with SYKM . In any case, whatever you call it, it's $1.99 right now at both Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DMCUWWY
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00DMCUWWY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...aint-pholien-1

Spoiler:

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian

Inspector Maigret finds himself tangled up in a dreadful death, in Georges Simenon’s haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt

While in Brussels on police business, Inspector Jules Maigret witnesses a strange act: a scruffy-looking man counts out a large amount of currency and mails it to a Paris address. His instincts tell him there is more to this moment than meets the eye, and following an impulse, Maigret boards the man’s train, following him to Germany via Amsterdam. But in the course of his investigation, something goes horribly awry, and the man ends up dead.

Maigret is devastated by the inadvertent role he played, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to the edge. In The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, Georges Simenon examines the terrible weight guilt can place on a man’s conscience and the tragedies that can result when that weight gets to be too heavy to bear.

[sufue]

A couple of years later, Dead to the World is $1.99 again at Kindle and Kobo US. The links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Dead to the World is the fourth in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. There was an omnibus of several early titles in this series on sale in the UK a long time ago, so if you travel, check carefully before you buy...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-World-So...dp/B000O76OOU/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ackhouse-novel

[sufue]

Several years later, again $1.99 in the US...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Falcon at the Portal is the 11th in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. This series doesn't go on sale in the US very much, so enjoy...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Portal...dp/B000FC11P6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...at-the-portal#

[sufue]

A couple of years later, again at $1.99. Also $1.99 at Kobo US.

Originally Posted by tch65721

U is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Novel by Sue Grafton - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002DW92UC

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/u-is-for-undertow-2