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[sufue]

A couple of years later, Evidence is on sale again in the US for $1.99. The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Two Jonathan Kellerman/Alex Delaware titles on sale - one in the US, one in the UK.

Evidence, #24, $1.99 in the US
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002MUAFXI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/evidence-6
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[sufue]

No Reserve is the most recent book (2023) by Felix Francis, who has continued writing in his father's style, and even occasionally with the same characters. It's on sale in the US for $2.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTH4ZKMD
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/no-reserve-3

Spoiler:

Theo Jennings, an auctioneer in Newmarket, England, has been climbing the ladder at the bloodstock sales company for the past three years. He’s planning on making his first ever multi-million sale with a yearling colt. When he finds the colt dead a few days after the auction, Theo is suspicious that there was foul play involved.

As Theo begins to investigate the death, he finds that answers aren’t coming readily from those who he questions. When a person’s body is discovered in the same stable a few days later, all fingers point to him. As his world turns upside down with the accusations, Theo decides to further his investigation.

The only way to clear Theo’s name is to find the real murderer, but it isn’t just the police who have their eye on him–the killer has a target on his back.

[sufue]

The Body in the Big Apple is the tenth in Katherine Hall Page's Faith Fairchild series, but it's a prequel. It's $1.99 right now at Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000R4FXRE

Spoiler:

Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colorful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world...

Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late '809s, Faith Sibley is energized by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But she's cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: sleuth! An anonymous blackmmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emma's less than glamorous past -- thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husband's fast-rising political career -- and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray. Though she lacks experience, Faith's keen instinct, insight, and determination to unmask and extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realizes that it's not just her old friend's good name that's in peril...it's Emma's life itself.

[gtriever]

Originally Posted by sufue

I've long been quite fond of the four humorous/ghostly mysteries by Manning Coles (pen name for Cyril Henry Coles and A.K.O. (Adelaide Frances Oke) Manning)... I've not read any of Coles' Tommy Hambledon spy series (with many more books) - if anyone else has, are they any good? I note that a few of those are also available in e-book.

Thank you for the tip on Manning Coles. I've read the first Hambledon book and enjoyed it. Does anybody know if Three Beans / Birdwatcher's Quarry is available as an ebook?

[Tarana]

2 collections of short story murder and mayhem around the holidays by a variety of authors. Both edited by Charlotte MacLeod

Mistletoe Mysteries $.99 Amazon and Kobo
Christmas Stalkings $.99 Amazon only

[sufue]

Just One Evil Act is $1.99 in the US again right now...

Originally Posted by sufue

Just One Evil Act is the 18th (and next to last) in the Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7H8O/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/just-one-evil-act-1

[sufue]

Desperation in Death is no longer the most recent in the series, but it is on sale for $2.99 in the US right now...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NTJRDJ3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/desperation-in-death

Originally Posted by sufue

Desperation in Death is the 55th and most recent (2022) in JD Robb's Eve Dallas series. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Z1R3F7T
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Z1R3F7T

[sufue]

Maigret and the Wine Merchant is almost at the end of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret series. It's $2.99 right now in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WJF4X7B
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mai...ine-merchant-1

Spoiler:

Investigating the murder of one of Paris's elite, the detective Maigret finds the list of suspects is longer than anyone could have imagined

When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and killed in Paris, Inspector Maigret must investigate a long list of family, colleagues and lovers to uncover just who could have committed the crime. Delving into the depths of the man's personality, Maigret discovers that the victim may have made one too many enemies on his way to the top.

Breathlessly paced and psychologically astute, Maigret and the Wine Merchant is a thrilling mystery from the master Georges Simenon.

[sufue]

Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night is the latest (2023) in Sophie Hannah's continuation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot books. And for some reason Amazon UK is calling it the "#1 Best Seller in Women's Fiction Classics". Perhaps because Agatha Christie and/or Sophie Hannah are female? Although I would assume "Women's Fiction" would be about women, not necessarily by women. But Hercule Poirot is definitely not female...

And it's also a bit late for Christmas.

In any case, though, it's on sale right now at Kindle UK for £0.99, although sadly not on sale (at least as of now) at Kobo UK. I've included the Kobo UK link for price-check purposes.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPWZP4QN
Kobo UK (price-check): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/her...irot-mystery-1

Spoiler:

CAN HERCULE POIROT SOLVE A BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERY IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS?

It’s 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of a Norfolk hospital ward. Catchpool’s mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot solves the case. Cynthia’s friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital and his wife is convinced he will be the killer’s next victim, though she refuses to explain why.

Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, someone else – someone utterly ruthless – also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot . . .

[sufue]

Two-and-a-half years later, The Deeds of the Disturber is $0.99 in the US again, and it's discountable at Kobo US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0752DFDC1
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...he-disturber-3

Originally Posted by Tarana

Other than Elizabeth Peters, I don't know these other authors, but the books all looked interesting.

The Deeds of the Disturber By Elizabeth Peters $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Amelia Peabody mystery series

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[sufue]

Five James Lee Burke/Dave Robicheaux books are £2.99 at Kindle UK. Not a great price, but not too bad either. And especially since they tend to be $9.99 and up in the US, and a bunch at $13.99 - even the decades old backlist.

Burning Angel, #8
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003TO5AK4

Sunset Limited, #10
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004KSRZSI

Purple Cane Road, #11
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004BDOJYA

Creole Belle, #19
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0089YH7LO

Robicheaux, You Know My Name (apa just Robicheaux)
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07572K5B3

As an aside, I love a lot of the titles in this series, just for the titles (even if the books weren't good too): In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead, Purple Cane Road, Last Car To Elysian Fields, Pegasus Descending ... but really, almost all of them ...

[sufue]

A bunch of Katherine Hall Page's Faith Fairchild books have been going on sale recently, one by one. Now it's the most recent (2023) in the series, The Body in the Web, on sale for $1.99 in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFWYTVJZ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-body-in-the-web

Spoiler:

Katherine Hall Page’s beloved amateur detective gets wrapped up in a Zoom-bombing scandal that sends her community into a tailspin … just as a dead body is discovered.

Faith Fairchild joins the rest of the world in lockdown mode when reality flips in March 2020. As the pandemic spreads, Faith and her family readjust to life together in Aleford, Massachusetts. Her husband, Tom, continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home .

Faith is happy to have her family under the same roof and grateful for her resilient community, friends, and neighbors in Aleford. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. It is at one of these town halls that scandal breaks out. In the midst of a Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon everyone’s screens. Claudia, local art teacher and Faith’s dear friend, is immediately recognized as the woman who has been targeted.

When Claudia is later discovered dead, Faith, with the help of her friends, journeys deep into the dark web to unravel the threads of Claudia’s mysterious history and shocking passing.

[SomeSteve]

That Day the Rabbi Left Town by Harry Kemelman is $0.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/That-Rabbi-Le...dp/B00ZJZGX5W/

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tha...bbi-left-town/

[ZodWallop]

City on Fire by Don Winslow is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Two criminal empires together control all of New England.

Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.

Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the family he has sworn to protect, he becomes a leader, a ruthless strategist, and a master of a treacherous game in which the winners live and the losers die.

From the gritty streets of Providence to the glittering screens of Hollywood to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, two rival crime families ignite a war that will leave only one standing. The winner will forge a dynasty.

Exploring the classic themes of loyalty, betrayal, and honor, City on Fire is a contemporary masterpiece in the tradition of The Godfather, Casino, and Goodfellas—a thrilling saga from Don Winslow, “America’s greatest living crime writer” (Jon Land, Providence Journal).

[GA Russell]

The other day I added Mike Shayne/Brett Halliday to my eReaderIQ list, and every day since then there have been 2-4 titles coming up at $1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Brett+Halliday&i=