FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Quoth]

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...CN5Dvgs&cPos=1

Nine Mile Walk. Harry Kemelman. £6 -> £1

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Quoth

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...CN5Dvgs&cPos=1

Nine Mile Walk. Harry Kemelman. £6 -> £1

An excellent set of stories. I really enjoyed them.

[sufue]

FWIW, California doesn't charge sales tax on e-books. Regular books, yes. E-books, no. California also doesn't charge sales tax (for now) on any downloaded electronic software that doesn't come with physical "media" - i.e. no CD or USB stick loaded with the software. In my real job, I get to argue with vendors about this from time-to-time, and it's never fun.

But unless Beverly Hills has a city sales tax on e-books, which seems highly unlikely, you're free to use 90210 if you want to. If you want to be super-sure, use 90254, which is Hermosa Beach, CA, where I live. I attached a screenshot of a recent Kobo purchase, and you can see there is no tax.

Originally Posted by issybird

People from elsewhere who shop the USA need a zip code because sales tax varies by state.

If someone's going to use a fake zip code, they might as well make it one from a no sales tax state, instead of paying the 9.75% they'd be charged for a Beverly Hills address. That's just kooky.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by sufue

FWIW, California doesn't charge sales tax on e-books. Regular books, yes. E-books, no. California also doesn't charge sales tax (for now) on any downloaded electronic software that doesn't come with physical "media" - i.e. no CD or USB stick loaded with the software. In my real job, I get to argue with vendors about this from time-to-time, and it's never fun.

But unless Beverly Hills has a city sales tax on e-books, which seems highly unlikely, you're free to use 90210 if you want to. If you want to be super-sure, use 90254, which is Hermosa Beach, CA, where I live. I attached a screenshot of a recent Kobo purchase, and you can see there is no tax.

Easier is New Hampshire as there is no sales tax.

[sufue]

This Friday's free Joffe mystery is The Long Dead, which is the first in the John Blizzard series by John Dean. Usually good through the weekend, but as always, I wouldn't count on it if you really want it. I haven't read anything by this author, so no opinion on this one.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8BWGG14
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F8BWGG14

Spoiler:

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Blizzard — burly and blunt. He takes no nonsense from crooks or his superiors.

The bestselling British detective series starts here — in a windswept Northern city where the past is never truly dead. The books have over 7000 five-star reviews.

On the edge of Hafton — a cold, rainy city shadowed by its industrial past — construction workers uncover a burial site beneath an old farm. Fifteen bodies lie beneath the frostbitten soil: German POWs from World War II. But one body doesn’t belong.

Modern clothes. A bullet in the skull. And a very recent death.

DCI John Blizzard is called in to investigate. The dead man was a known thug with dangerous connections — but what was he doing at the site of a disused prisoner-of-war camp, and why has someone gone to such lengths to hide him?

As Blizzard digs deeper, he uncovers a trail of secrets stretching back to the dying days of the war — and a conspiracy that someone is willing to kill for. With pressure from above and the past closing in, Blizzard must race to uncover the truth before more bodies fall.

[GA Russell]

The Wanted (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #17)

by Robert Crais

$1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M09NRYP