FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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A Sunlit Weapon is the most recent (2022) in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series. It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal, and matched at Kobo US. That's not a great sale price, but a lot better than the $14.99 that it was yesterday and probably will be tomorrow ! And it's not too bad for a 2022 book..

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097RN7JZB
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B097RN7JZB
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-sunlit-weapon

Spoiler:

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.

Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs. Meanwhile, Maisie’s husband, a high-ranking political attaché based at the American embassy, is in the thick of ensuring security is tight for the first lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, during her visit to the Britain. There’s already evidence that German agents have been circling: the wife of a president represents a high value target. Mrs. Roosevelt is clearly in danger, and there may well be a direct connection to the death of the woman ferry pilot and the recent activities of two American servicemen.

To guarantee the safety of the First Lady—and of the soldier being held in police custody—Maisie must uncover that connection. At the same time, she faces difficulties of an entirely different nature with her young daughter, Anna, who is experiencing wartime struggles of her own.

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Stargazer is next-to-most-recent (2021) in Anne Hillerman's continuation of her father's long-running Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito series. If you missed it at $1.99 a year ago, it's $2.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US - which is still not bad for a recent book. Info and links in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4138017

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Two Agatha Christie books are on sale for $1.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US: Nemesis (Miss Marple) and Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot). Nemesis is one of my favorite Miss Marple books, and I even like the BBC TV/movie version (with Joan Hickson), which is kind of unusual for me. It's a sort of follow-on from the earlier A Caribbean Mystery, with some of the same characters.

Nemesis
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1PM0
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1PM0
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nemesis-7

Peril at End House
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B000FC1PF2
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com//dp/B000FC1PF2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/peril-at-end-house

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Two fairly recent Serge Storms book, by Tim Dorsey, are $1.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US.

The Pope of Palm Beach, #21: info and links in this previous post

Tropic of Stupid (on my "best title list"), #24: info and links in this previous post

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Clam Wake is the 29th in Mary Daheim's Bed-and-Breakfast series. It's $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FOPS5E4
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00FOPS5E4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/clam-wake

Spoiler:

Innkeeper and irrepressible sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn and cousin Renie face off against a cold-blooded killer in a beach community in this delightfully charming Bed-and-Breakfast mystery from USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Mary Daheim.

With the holidays gone and Hillside Manor almost empty, Innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn has a bad case of the blues. A housesitting stint at her aunt and uncle’s retirement home on Whoopee Island with cousin Renie seems like the ideal pick-me-up. Surrounded by retirees in the off-season sounds peaceful and pleasant--or so the duo thinks. But it isn’t long before a dead body pops up in their vicinity. Not surprising in an area full of older folks—until they learn it wasn’t a bad ticker that did in the victim, but a very sharp knife. With clouds of suspicion hovering over her and Renie, Judith reluctantly begins sleuthing—if only to prove they didn’t commit the crime.

But what she finds is puzzling. The victim reputedly didn’t have an enemy in the world--except for the killer. Digging for clams and answers, the cousins discover that retirement can be deadly—at least among the eclectic, eccentric residents of Obsession Shores.

[GA Russell]

There are quite a number of Perry Mason books going for $2.99 today.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081LL1PQQ

Green-Eyed Sister
Lazy Lover
Terrified Typist
Careless Kitten
Gilded Lily
Dubious Bridegroom
Baited Hook

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The Locked Room is the most recent (2022) in Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08ZS7VQVG
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08ZS7VQVG

Spoiler:

Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1963.

Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to solve the mystery, but then Covid rears its ugly head. Ruth and her daughter are locked down in their cottage, attempting to continue with work and home-schooling. Happily, the house next door is rented by a nice woman called Zoe, who they become friendly with while standing on their doorsteps clapping for carers.

Nelson, meanwhile, is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. When he links the deaths to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit the cottage where he finds Ruth chatting to her neighbour whom he remembers as a carer who was once tried for murdering her employer.

Only then her name wasn't Zoe. It was Dawn.

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The Body in the Library is the second or third Miss Marple (depending on whether you count a collection of short stories) title by Agatha Christie. It's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK, as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046H95MC
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046H95MC

Spoiler:

A young woman found murdered
A scandal in the making
When Mrs Bantry wakes to find a body in her library, there’s only one woman to call: her good friend Jane Marple.

But she hasn’t called her old friend for comfort.

The body in her library has been murdered and Miss Marple is so very good at solving murders.

Her investigations uncover a scandal far darker than either of them could have imagined, and this time she may be out of her depth.

Never underestimate Miss Marple

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James Yaffe's series featuring official protagonist, Dave, and more importantly, Dave's mom, Mom, is a really really fun series that has been out in e-book for a while, but insanely expensive. Now the second book in the series, Mom Meets Her Maker, has dropped to $3.99 in the US. Still not a great price for a book that came out in 1990, but it's a fun fun series.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LY2K07M
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LY2K07M
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mom-meets-her-maker

Spoiler:

Have no fear when Mom is on the case!

When the Reverend Chuck Candy is found shot to death three days before Christmas, there's only one person in all of small town Mesa Grande, Colorado who can solve the case: Mom. Chief Investigator of the Public Defender's office Dave asks for her help in clearing an innocent man charged with the reverend's death--and Mom leads him to discover a web of unlikely connections and sinister intentions.

"Mom, dispensing advice along with her pot roast, is invaluable. This book is carefully plotted, leaves ample clues, yet manages several surprises." -- Publishers Weekly

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Locked Room is the most recent (2022) in Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08ZS7VQVG
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08ZS7VQVG

It is a book a have waited for. Unfortunately it is $14 at Amazon US.
BUT I checked ebooks.com and here the price is 1 euro. Got it

[Tarana]

All of these are at Amazon, Kobo and B&N and probably at some other sources as well

No Middle Name By Lee Child $2.99
Thriller - Jack Reacher series

The Miss Silver Mysteries: Volume Five By Patricia Wentworth $2.99
Cozy series

Orchid Beach By Stuart Woods $1.99
Thriller

No Mercy By Blake Pierce FREE
Crime - I enjoy this author although I haven't read this particular book

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton By Elizabeth Speller $1.99
Mystery - don't know author but positively reviewed in Library Journal

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Glad you were able to find it!

@JSWolf will be happy you checked ebooks.com...

Originally Posted by svenlind

It is a book a have waited for. Unfortunately it is $14 at Amazon US.
BUT I checked ebooks.com and here the price is 1 euro. Got it

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Hymn to Murder is the 21st and next-to-most-recent Hugh Corbett title by Paul Doherty. It has dropped to $2.99/£2.99 in the US/UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZYPFJCW
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hym...h-corbett-21-1
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YFH53Y5

Spoiler:

Hugh Corbett returns in the twenty-first gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard Cornwell you will love this.

Secrets simmer in the lonely wasteland of Dartmoor.

Spring, 1312. At Malmaison Manor, Lord Simon is concealing a dark secret - one he arrogantly assumes will never catch up with him. But someone knows about the crime he committed and they've found a way to make him pay. And he's not alone. When he is found mysteriously slain, other deaths soon follow. Meanwhile, ships on the Devonshire coast are being deliberately wrecked, their crews slaughtered, their cargoes plundered.

Sir Hugh Corbett and Lord Simon are bound by the Secret Chancery and their search for one precious ruby - the Lacrima Christi. So, when Corbett learns of Lord Simon's death, he is once more dragged into a tangled web of lies and intrigue and it's not long before secrets of his own start to surface. As the Hymn to Murder reaches its crescendo, can Corbett confront his past and live to see another day?

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A couple of years later, again $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. The links are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Depth of Winter is the fourteenth and noxt-to-most-recent in the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Depth-Winter-.../dp/B079WJQY8H
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/depth-of-winter

[Critteranne]

The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel is $1.99. This is part of the Library of Congress Crime Classics collection. The author was a soprano who sang at the Met between 1937 and 1953 -- and wrote two mysteries!

You can view it in the SourceBooks newsletter. (SourceBooks owns the Poison Pen imprint.)

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