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[sufue]

Open Road/Mysterious Press seem to have recently gotten the rights to a bunch of Bertha Cool/Donald Lam books, and have been putting them on sale from time to time, but I just now noticed...

Right now, the third in the series, Gold Comes in Bricks, is $1.99 in the US, and it's discountable at Kobo. I like both Gardner's Perry Mason series, and the Cool/Lam series, but I think I have to give a slight edge to the Cool/Lam books - their partnership is a lot of fun, and less jarring in modern times than Mason's with Della Street.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VS3BCDV
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09VS3BCDV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gold-comes-in-bricks-1

Spoiler:

Following a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Turn on the Heat.

Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys—but he’s also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. That’s why his boss, the ever-irascible Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The first class isn’t easy for Donald, but he is rewarded with a new client . . .

Henry Ashbury is concerned about his daughter’s recent spending habits. He wants Donald to find out where her money is going, without letting on that he’s a detective. So, going undercover as Ashbury’s trainer, Donald soon learns the story behind the daughter’s finances. But when his investigation also turns up a dead body, the diminutive detective must teach the killer a lesson in justice . . .

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by sufue

Open Road/Mysterious Press seem to have recently gotten the rights to a bunch of Bertha Cool/Donald Lam books, and have been putting them on sale from time to time, but I just now noticed...

Right now, the third in the series, Gold Comes in Bricks, is $1.99 in the US, and it's discountable at Kobo. I like both Gardner's Perry Mason series, and the Cool/Lam series, but I think I have to give a slight edge to the Cool/Lam books - their partnership is a lot of fun, and less jarring in modern times than Mason's with Della Street.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VS3BCDV
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09VS3BCDV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gold-comes-in-bricks-1

Love the Cool and Lam books! Thanks for the heads up, I snapped this one up.

[Gardenman]

[QUOTE=sufue;4247850]Crisis is one of Felix Francis' continuations of his father's (Dick Francis) horse themed mysteries. I've read a lot of the Felix one and enjoyed most of them, including this one. Crisis is on sale right now for $1.99, which is the first time I've noticed it on sale in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079R6QW8P
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B079R6QW8P
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/crisis-31

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Thanks Picked it up

[sufue]

More should be coming, since some, at least, are now Open Road. I'll post when I see them - the first time at least ...

Originally Posted by kyrilson

Love the Cool and Lam books! Thanks for the heads up, I snapped this one up.

[sufue]

Almost four years later, again £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Originally Posted by sufue

If the Dead Rise Not is the 6th in the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/If-Dead-Ris...dp/B002WIG3PE/

[ZodWallop]

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is $2.99 at Amazon US.

One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.

[sufue]

Andrea Camilleri's The Smell of the Night (apa The Scent of the Night) is the sixth Inspector Montalbano book. It's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001RHOJU2
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001RHOJU2

Spoiler:

Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds himself at a serious disadvantage: a hostile superior has shut him out of the case, he’s on the outs with his lover Livia, and his cherished Sicily is turning so ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is worth saving. Drenched with atmosphere, crackling with wit, The Smell of the Night is Camilleri at his most addictive.

[sufue]

Agatha Christie's The Thirteen Problems, apa The Tuesday Club Murders, apa The Mystery of the Blue Geraniums, and Other Tuesday Club Murders, is an early collection of Miss Marple short stories. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK right now, as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046RE5AE
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046RE5AE

Spoiler:

A weekly dinner party
Ten amateur sleuths
The Tuesday Night Club murders
On a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a group of friends gather for dinner.

A policeman, a clergyman, a solicitor, an author, an artist, and an unassuming lady with a shrewd gaze – Miss Jane Marple. Conversation naturally turns to crime.

Each recounts a seemingly unsolvable mystery. Each thinks they know the answer.

But it’s the one they least expect who understands the true nature of each wicked act…

Never underestimate Miss Marple

[tch65721]

Originally Posted by tch65721

The Harry Bosch Novels: Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight
by Michael Connelly - $3.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBJDU2

And again today...

[sufue]

More than a year later, Trace is $1.99 again in the US. The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Trace is the 13th in the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074VTH34
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/trace-1

[sufue]

Murder By The Book is the eighteenth in the Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory. It's on sale right now in the US ($1.99) and UK (£2.99).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GW4JQQ2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-by-the-book-8
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007TNY6II

Spoiler:

The eighteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series.

It is drawing near to the end of term, and the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discuss the matter, and a body is found floating in the pond in the library's garden on the eve of its opening.

Meanwhile, there are rumours of a large force of dangerous smugglers lurking in the Fens. Aided by their friend Sheriff Tulyet, Bartholomew and Michael must thwart the invaders before the Feast of Corpus Christi the following week. To fail might mean the destruction of the town...

'A first-rate treat for mystery lovers' (Historical Novels Review)

[Paperbackstash]

Murder in the Bookshop (Detective Club Crime Classics) by Carolyn Wells currently on sale for 99 cents from Harper Collins

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SIN=B07D44Z4BX

[Paperbackstash]

Arsenic and Adobo (A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery Book 1) by Mia P. Manansala is on sale from Penguin for $2.99

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SIN=B08FHB46J1

[Paperbackstash]

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb is on sale for 1.99 from Penguin

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SIN=B08GJVV4WS

[sufue]

The Jeri Howard Anthology: Books 10-13 by Janet Dawson is free right now at Kindle US and UK. It contains: Bit Player, Cold Trail, Water Signs, and The Devil Close Behind. Books in this previously conventionally published series go free a lot, both individually and in collections, but I haven't noticed this particular omnibus go free before.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RJW66ZN
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RJW66ZN

Spoiler:

Vol. 10-13 of the AWARD-WINNING Jeri Howard Murder Mystery Series now comes in a handsome box set at an even more appealing price! "Dawson keeps suspense and interest at high pitch." -Publishers Weekly

If you love female sleuths like Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, Linda Barnes’ Carlotta Carlyle and Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone, Jeri Howard will be your next favorite character — a shrewd, savvy PI who dominates any case that comes her way.

“Dawson writes believable dialogue, creates quickly realized and appealing characters and has a particularly nice atmospheric touch.”-San Francisco Examiner

BIT PLAYER

MURDER MAKES A COMEBACK – READY FOR ITS CLOSEUP! Was Jeri Howard’s grandmother a murder suspect? The Oakland private investigator has a chance encounter in a movie memorabilia shop. Now she's on a quest to find the truth about her grandmother, actress Jerusha Layne, and the 1941 murder of a British expatriate actor, shot dead in his Hollywood bungalow.

COLD TRAIL

THE MORGUE. THE LAST PLACE JERI HOWARD WANTS TO BE – ESPECIALLY IF THE BODY IS THAT OF HER KID BROTHER. Missing is not a word Jeri wants to hear about her brother Brian. He’s been gone four days. And that body in the morgue? It was found on a burned-out boat - along with Brian’s MedicAlert bracelet. The trail is getting cold.

WATER SIGNS

OAKLAND. A CITY SHAPED BY WATER, MONEY, GREED – AND MURDER. Jeri Howard worked at an Oakland private investigator firm before she set out on her own. Her former colleague Cal Brady, an alcoholic, is now sober, working as a security guard at a construction site on Oakland’s gritty waterfront. His body washes up in the estuary. Did he fall off the wagon and into the water? His daughter isn’t buying that story. She thinks Cal was murdered.

THE DEVIL CLOSE BEHIND

FIRE CAN BE DEADLY – IN THE WRONG HANDS. That’s what PI Jeri Howard learns when her New Orleans vacation turns into a case. A phone call from her friend Davina sets events in motion. Davina’s sister Laurette, already in a bad place after the loss of husband and child, has a new boyfriend. He’s a mercurial musician who calls himself Slade.

Her family doesn’t like him. As it turns out, they have good reason. Slade has a disturbing history of getting even – and setting fires. It’s a lethal combination.

And the ninth book in the series, A Killing At The Track, is also free right now individually.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GIGEDI
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005GIGEDI

Spoiler:

Intrepid Jeri Howard, Janet Dawson’s savvy female private eye, steps into the Winner’s Circle in Dawson's NINTH action-packed mystery, set almost entirely at a track seething with intrigue. Author Dawson takes us to the fascinating and forbidden backside, where you practically need a hotwalker for the humans, as owners fret, jockeys throw fits, and vets sweat to hold overworked horses together with duct tape.

Overworked is a hazard of the job, but “injured” can result in lost fortunes or death—and not just death for horses, as Jeri soon finds out. You don't have to be a detective to know that if it's a track, there’s always a bad actor out there, looking to make a killing the easy way. And if they have to kill to do it, our intrepid PI’s not going to rest until the desperation stakes.

So here’s how it goes—one dead jockey, then two dead jockeys, three exotic poisons, and several possible payoffs—Jeri’s positively in a lather! But you can wager she’s going to show her stuff in the stretch and take home the purse. (She’s reliable that way.)

Dawson’s complex plot is a pleasure, but the rich backside lore makes this one a sure thing. When you can practically feel the breeze as the horses sweep by, you know you can't lose!