FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I know this deal may be over. I'm asking if this series gets any better. The first book was a bit meh.

It might not be your thing. Detecting is incidental, almost a maguffin. I did like the first twelve, which we have on paper and we liked, so I bought these also for convenience.
Not fussed on The Sunday Philosophy Club series AKA Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries.
The 44 Scotland St is OK (but not as good as No1. Detective), and unusually for modern era started as serial written as it was published, Dickens style, as was the Corduroy Mansions series (which I found boring). I also read the omnibus he 21⁄2 Pillars of Wisdom, 1st 3 books of Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainments and didn't like it.

This sort of explains why a Scottish Law Professor can be writing about people in Botswana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McCall_Smith

I think the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is unique.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The Sunday Philosophy Club series

A series I think is very good is the Thursday Murder Club series written by Richard Osman. The plots are good and the characters are very good.

[sufue]

Several years later, Aunt Dimity's Death is $1.99 in the US again. The links below are still good....

Originally Posted by sufue

Some random price drops in the US, most to $1.99 unless otherwise indicated...

Aunt Dimity's Death is the first in the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton. This is an outrageously cozy series, with a touch (but not annoying, at least to me, and just a touch) of paranormal, started long before paranormal became the trend. I read and enjoyed the first few titles back in DTB days, but the later titles have been pretty outrageously priced in e-book (IMO) so I've pretty much stopped reading it.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Aunt-Dimitys-...dp/B0063OCXY8/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/aunt-dimity-s-death

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[sufue]

Hoodoo Harry is a Bibliomysteries novella by Joe R Lansdale, and it's free right now in the US. (Per the blurb, the Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.)

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0728HY23X
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0728HY23X
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hoodoo-harry

Spoiler:

A long-lost bookmobile opens a wild new chapter in the lives of dysfunctional Texas detectives Hap and Leonard—stars of the hit Sundance TV series.

Hap Collins is a straight, white, liberal, blue-collar tough guy. Leonard Pine is a gay, black, Republican combat veteran. Together, they’re the truest Lone Stars living in America’s most independently minded state. Best friends who’ve shared a succession of low-wage odd jobs that have gotten them into even odder situations dealing with lowlifes, now the duo delivers their own brand of ass-kicking justice as private investigators.

In this brand-new story, a day’s fishing lands Hap and Leonard their biggest catch ever: the Rolling Literature bookmobile. A pillar of rural African American communities in East Texas, the renovated school bus vanished fifteen years ago—along with its driver, Harriet Hoodalay, aka Hoodoo Harry—reappearing just in time to crash Leonard’s pickup into a creek. Behind the wheel was a twelve-year-old boy who didn’t survive the accident.

The kid was clearly running scared, but who was he running from and how did he end up in the driver’s seat of the missing bookmobile? The first solid lead in a case that started more than a decade earlier with Hoodoo Harry, this mystery of a small town’s dark and disturbing past will take all of Hap and Leonard’s wits—and fists—to solve.

Known for his “zest for storytelling and a gimlet eye for detail,” multiple award–winning author Joe R. Lansdale brings his rapid-fire dialogue, no-holds-barred action, and gut-busting humor to this original Hap and Leonard novella (Entertainment Weekly).

The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

[sufue]

Almost six years later, With No One as Witness is $1.99 again in the US. @ATDrake's link below is still good for Kobo US, and here are Kindle US links:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKRD8
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKRD8

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Bargain @ $0.99-$2.99 from assorted HarperCollins imprints in Canada & presumably the US (should be the same price in all the usual stores):

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With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George, 13th in her acclaimed Inspectory Lynley series of police procedurals

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[sufue]

A year-and-a-half later, A Recipe for Murder is free again at Kindle US and UK. The links below are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

A Recipe for Murder is a non-series title by Roderic Jeffries, writing originally as Jeffrey Ashford. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HZZPY7G
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HZZPY7G

[sufue]

Two years and a bit later, Rainbow's End is $1.99 again at Kindle US. Not on sale at Kobo US, at least as of now. @Tarana's link below is still good...

Originally Posted by Tarana

Ellis Peters' has several books on special for both Cadfael series Felse Investigations. Kobo has only matched the first one.

This group is $1.99 all Felse
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Rainbow's End
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...oreType=ebooks

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[sufue]

A year and a half later, Murder on Astor Place is $1.99 again at Kindle US and Kobo US. I read the first several books in this series way back in paperback days and liked them, but lost track of the series during my transition to e-books, since the later titles rarely go on sale. This one is the first in the series...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QIGZCC
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-on-astor-place

Originally Posted by Tarana

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Murder on Astor Place By Victoria Thompson $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical Mystery - I don't know author but this looked interesting. Early 1900s NY midwife sleuth.

[sufue]

If you didn't buy it a year ago when it was cheap, now the The Dorothy Martin Murder Mystery Box Set, Books 1-5 is free at Kindle US and UK.

Originally Posted by sufue

I remember reading and liking both the Sister Joan series by Veronica Black (pen name for Maureen Peters) and the Dorothy Martin series by Jeanne M Dams, back in DTB days. Now there are omnibuses of several books in each series on sale for $0.99/£0.99.

The Dorothy Martin Murder Mystery Box Set, Books 1-5 contains: The Body in the Transept (which won the 1995 Agatha for Best First Novel), Trouble in the Town Hall, Holy Terror in the Hebrides, Malice in Miniature, and The Victim in Victoria Station

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XBD1LG4
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09XBD1LG4

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[sufue]

The Woman in Blue is now on sale in the US for $1.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011H55RHM/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B011H55RHM/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-woman-in-blue

Originally Posted by sufue

The Woman In Blue is the eighth in the Dr Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woman-Blue-...dp/B013UV9DG2/

[pdurrant]

The Nine Mile Walk, a collection of the Nicky Welt stories by Harry Kemelman are £1.59 on Amazon UK at the moment.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZJZGVYK/

These are by the author of the Rabbi Small novels, which are excellent. I'm looking for ward to reading these short stories, which I hope are of equal quality.

[sufue]

Another Felse title on sale again: Fallen into the Pit is $1.99 at Kindle US right now. @Tarana's link below is still good.

Originally Posted by Tarana

Ellis Peters' has several books on special for both Cadfael series Felse Investigations. Kobo has only matched the first one.

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Fallen Into the Pit (book 1)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...oreType=ebooks

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[sufue]

And also $1.99 in the US, and discountable at Kobo US. FWIW, I liked them, although I'm generally less fond of short stories than of full length books...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZJZGVYK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-nine-mile-walk

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Nine Mile Walk, a collection of the Nicky Welt stories by Harry Kemelman are £1.59 on Amazon UK at the moment.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZJZGVYK/

These are by the author of the Rabbi Small novels, which are excellent. I'm looking for ward to reading these short stories, which I hope are of equal quality.

[sufue]

Racing the Light is the nineteenth and most recent (2022) in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series by Robert Crais. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KB2Y1LH
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KB2Y1LH

Spoiler:

THE CITY OF ANGELS
Adele Schumacher isn’t a typical worried mum. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, paranoid tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of mysterious bodyguards. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis quickly learns he isn’t alone in the hunt – a team of deadly strangers are determined to find Josh first.

THE CITY OF LIES
With dangerous secrets lurking behind every lead, Elvis needs his friend Joe Pike more than ever to uncover the truth about Josh, corrupt politicians, and the murderous business cartels rotting the heart of Los Angeles. And when his estranged ex-girlfriend Lucy Chenier and her son return to the city, Elvis realizes just how much he has to lose . . . if he survives.

Written with the heart, humour, and relentless suspense for which Crais is famous, Racing the Light delivers Elvis Cole’s most dangerous case yet.

[Tarana]

No One As Witness - Elizabeth George $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Detective - Inspector Lynley series