FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

I am seeing pages and pages of Open Road/Mysterious Press books going for $0.25 each in the US. And they are discountable at Kobo US, where "Partners22" is still working for 40% off, which makes them $0.13 each if you have both VIP and the code. (Remember that "Partners22" is multiple use, but one book per cart, so you have to do multiple carts/checkouts to use it on more than one book.) Not quite as good as the Open Road freebie-thon from several years ago, but pretty close.

There are way too many to list, but here are links which should show these books at both Kindle and Kobo US. But if you have a favorite Open Road/Mysterious Press author, you might also just check their books specifically.

Some authors I've noticed with at least one book at this price include (not an exhaustive list): William G. Tapply, Dorothy Hughes, Donald E. Westlake, Susan Dunlap, Ted Wood, J. Robert Janes, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, John Lutz, Barbara Parker...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Open+Road...price-asc-rank

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...cmaxprice=0.59

NOTE: the links are a little finicky, probably because Open Road/Mysterious Press list themselves in a bunch of different ways, e.g. Open Road only, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, Open Road/Mysterious Press, etc... If anyone can improve them, please do!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sufue

I am seeing pages and pages of Open Road/Mysterious Press books going for $0.25 each in the US.

I noticed the same, but couldn't figure out how to filter them.

[sufue]

I just paged through really fast looking for authors I like, and then went to those authors' pages to see if there were any I wanted. But there is a lot of duplication with the December 2016 freebie-thon...

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I noticed the same, but couldn't figure out how to filter them.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by sufue

I just paged through really fast looking for authors I like, and then went to those authors' pages to see if there were any I wanted. But there is a lot of duplication with the December 2016 freebie-thon...

Yes, but I was able to fill in some gaps. Thanks very much!

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by sufue

I am seeing pages and pages of Open Road/Mysterious Press books going for $0.25 each in the US. And they are discountable at Kobo US, where "Partners22" is still working for 40% off, which makes them $0.13 each if you have both VIP and the code. (Remember that "Partners22" is multiple use, but one book per cart, so you have to do multiple carts/checkouts to use it on more than one book.) Not quite as good as the Open Road freebie-thon from several years ago, but pretty close.

There are way too many to list, but here are links which should show these books at both Kindle and Kobo US. But if you have a favorite Open Road/Mysterious Press author, you might also just check their books specifically.

Some authors I've noticed with at least one book at this price include (not an exhaustive list): William G. Tapply, Dorothy Hughes, Donald E. Westlake, Susan Dunlap, Ted Wood, J. Robert Janes, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, John Lutz, Barbara Parker...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Open+Road...price-asc-rank

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...cmaxprice=0.59

NOTE: the links are a little finicky, probably because Open Road/Mysterious Press list themselves in a bunch of different ways, e.g. Open Road only, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, Open Road/Mysterious Press, etc... If anyone can improve them, please do!

Thanks, sufue!

[sufue]

I'm not much of a thriller person, but some folks are, so here you go...

Only for a few more hours, today's Big Deal in the UK is 12 John Grisham books for £0.99 each.

Here are links to the sale page:

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_ac...ode=4725112031
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_...ode=4725112031

[GA Russell]

Valentino: Film Detective - Loren D. Estleman - 50 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Valentino-Det...dp/B00EZEX75M/

I read this last week, and enjoyed it. Five-minute mysteries. Fairly easy to guess the identity of the villain because the cast of characters is so small.

[Mims]

Halloween Party by Agatha Christie
When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party.
$1.99
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hallowe-en-party

The Traitor by Martin Edwards
Free at Amazon and Kobo
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-traitor-46
A novella that introduces book detective Benny Morgan from the acclaimed, multiple award–winning author of the Lake District Mystery series.

[sufue]

Scream Queen Confidential is an omnibus that combines the second and third books in Adrienne Barbeau's Vampyres of Hollywood mysteries (Love Bites and Make Me Dead) and her autobiographical memoir, There Are Worse Things I Could Do. It's free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0782YYF6J
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0782YYF6J

Spoiler:

ADRIENNE BARBEAU’S L.A. TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, There Are Worse Things I Could Do, is now available on Kindle in a box set with two thrillers from her witty, satirical fictional series about another “scream queen” – with a twist…

After the success of her bestselling memoir, a rollicking romp through five decades of Broadway and Hollywood, Tony-nominated actress and iconic “scream queen” Adrienne Barbeau turned her skill as a sharp-eyed satirist to the absurdity of Hollywood, with its petty jealousies, vain ambitions, and over-the-top visuals.

The delicious result of all these thrilling elements? The action-packed Vampyres of Hollywood series! Part comic mysteries, part police procedurals, a little bit supernatural, paranormal, and occult (with a dash of old-fashioned vampyre romance—and lots of action, suspense, and adventure), Love Bites and Make Me Dead are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud—more than once.

Vol. 1: THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I COULD DO

Barbeau hilariously details her early years in New York, securing her first apartment, then getting her first job—as a barmaid—and, memorably, starring on Broadway in Grease. She shares warm memories of her two hit television series (Maude and Carnivale), and tales of her many television and feature films (The Fog, Escape from New York, Cannonball Run, Swamp Thing, Back to School, Creepshow).

But unlike most showbiz biographies, Barbeau’s story doesn’t stop—or even slow down—at fifty, which finds our heroine newly in love, wandering the halls of the maternity ward a new mother (the only new mother on the floor with an AARP card), becoming a published author (of vampire thrillers!), and taking up trapeze-performance at seventy.

Vol. 2: LOVE BITES

NOT YOUR MAMA’S POLICE PROCEDURAL—A COP STORY WITH BITE…AND ROMANCE… Not to mention sharp, cutting wit.

If you think you don't like vampyre books, you haven't met a woman sleuth like Ovsanna Moore. Don't think “vampyre”, think the fulfillment of your fondest personal fantasy—a woman who wins every fight; who (being 450 years old) can say exactly what she wants with no guilt and no regrets; and who, even at the advanced age of 450, looks like a sexy 20-year-old and is still up for hot romance. Enter Beverly Hills cop Peter King—easy on the eyes, he’s not only one hell of a detective, he's also a consummate master of spin, concealing what he knows about the world of vampyres, werewolves, and shapeshifters while solving the crimes they commit.

Vol. 3: MAKE ME DEAD

…WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD
Nobody’s better than Barbeau at skewering the foibles of Hollywood and its self-involved denizens, and nobody’s got a smarter mouth than her movie star heroine, Ovsanna Moore, this time in New Orleans for a horror convention. Fasten your seat belts—lots of fun to be had (at the expense of horror conventions).

Note: Barbeau is published by Julie Smith's booksBnimble, which I consider a legimate publisher.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sufue

Note: Barbeau is published by Julie Smith's booksBnimble, which I consider a legimate publisher.

It's Adrienne Barbeau! That's enough to make it legitimate in my book.

[sufue]

Another Joffe Books freebie, this time, not on Friday...

The Jenny Starling Mysteries, Books 1 - 4, by Faith Martin, previously writing as Joyce Cato, is pretty much what is says it is, and it's free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092JJP8H5
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B092JJP8H5

Books include: The Birthday Mystery, The Winter Mystery, The Riverboat Mystery, and The Castle Mystery - which appear to be updated titles for Birthdays Can Be Murder, A Fatal Fall of Snow, Dying for a Cruise, and The Invisible Murder...

The blurb is next to useless (and all in caps, which really annoys me), but here it is anyway:

Spoiler:

DO YOU LOVE CLASSIC WHODUNITS FILLED WITH TWISTS AND TURNS THAT KEEP YOU GUESSING TILL THE FINAL PAGE?

THEN MEET JENNY STARLING: TRAVELLING CHEF AND FEISTY AMATEUR SLEUTH.

FROM #1 BEST-SELLING AUTHOR FAITH MARTIN. YOU GET FOUR BEST-SELLING BOOKS IN THIS BOX SET.

OVER TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE.

[sufue]

That too!

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

It's Adrienne Barbeau! That's enough to make it legitimate in my book.

[sufue]

Listen to Me is the thirteenth and most recent (2022) in the Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. It's $2.99 right now in the US. I don't follow this series but I know some folks do, and it's nice when a most-recent book drops in price...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HTFX44X
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09HTFX44X
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/riz...s-listen-to-me

Spoiler:

Mothers know best . . . But who will listen?

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to traceless burner phones. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run from months earlier, the case only grows more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe.

Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in all the years since her daughter became a homicide detective. Maybe the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree: Nothing in Angela’s neighborhood gets by her—not the gossip about a runaway teenager down the block and definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street. Angela’s sure there’s no such thing as coincidence in her sleepy suburb. If only Jane would listen—instead she writes off Angela’s concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. But Angela’s convinced there’s a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears.

With so much happening on the Sofia case, Jane and Maura already struggle to see the forest for the trees, but will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home?

[sufue]

A Rage in Harlem, apa For Love of Imabelle, is the first in Chester Himes' Grave Digger Jones/Coffin Ed Johnson series. It's $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00589AYKE
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00589AYKE
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-rage-in-harlem-1

Spoiler:

A ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.

For the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.

[sufue]

Anne Perry's A Darker Reality is the third in her Elena Standish series It's on sale for $1.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R5XS49G
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08R5XS49G
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-darker-reality

Spoiler:

A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry.

“An absorbing and calculating thriller/mystery that grabs the reader from the first page.”—Great Mysteries and Thrillers

On her first trip to Washington, D.C., Elena Standish finally gets to visit her American mother’s wealthy parents and their magnificent home. Elena’s grandparents are marking a milestone anniversary by throwing an elaborate party with the influential friends of her grandfather, a prominent political industrialist. Even President and First Lady Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are there, and Elena takes pride in capturing the illustrious guests on camera. But the festivities come to a sudden and tragic end when one of the guests, Lila Worth, is run over by a car in the driveway outside. Elena believes Lila was trying to tell her something before her death, and when a call from her employer back home, MI6, confirms that Lila was a British spy, Elena pairs with a fellow agent to find out what vital information the young woman had in her possession.

Soon an arrest is made in Lila’s murder, and to Elena’s horror, the accused is none other than her own grandfather, who claims his political enemies are trying to frame him. But who are these enemies, and how can Elena defend this man she barely knows? Nevertheless, determined to clear his name and save her family from disgrace, she delves into the details of her grandfather’s investments and discovers that his business secrets run deep. As Elena begins to question his loyalties, she wonders if she can trust anyone in this threatening new world order.

I had an ARC of this back when it came out - if you want to read my review (I liked it), the URL for my blog is in my signature...