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[Quoth]

Originally Posted by sufue

Pardonable Lies is now £0.99 in the UK, for a few more hours...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AZZTP4M
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/pardonable-lies-6

Four currently at 99p
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?qu...4-d287bcae3526

I think all on sale last august on Amazon. (Maybe #3 to #7 + #18)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Four currently at 99p
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?qu...4-d287bcae3526

I think all on sale last august on Amazon. (Maybe #3 to #7 + #18)

Looks like 3, 4, 5, and 6 are all - for me - (VIP member) - £0.89.

Or £0.99 if one is not a member.

Kobo UK.

[salty-horse]

"A" is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries #1) by Sue Grafton is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

READ THE SENSATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER THAT STARTED IT ALL!

Take it from the top in *#*1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's knockout thriller that introduced detective Kinsey Millhone—and a hot new attitude—to crime fiction…

A IS FOR AVENGER
A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes.

A IS FOR ACCUSED
That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy.

A IS FOR ALIBI
If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer—and sharper—than she imagined.

[sufue]

A year and a half later, Lady with a Cool Eye is free again, for a few more hours this weekend. It's the first in Gwen Moffat's originally conventionally published Miss Pink series, dating from the 1970s to the 2000s, none of which I have read (yet). The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

A couple of Joffe freebies...

Lady with a Cool Eye is the first in the Miss Pink series by Gwen Moffat
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGDNNF7Y
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGDNNF7Y

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[sufue]

The Faces of the Dead is the second in Chris Nickson's Cathy Marsden series. It's £0.99 in the UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FVLY17PP
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-faces-of-the-dead

Spoiler:

Sergeant Cathy Marsden investigates the death of a local gangster in WWII Leeds.

Leeds, 1944. Cathy Marsden’s happiness at her boyfriend Tom’s brief leave from the army and marriage proposal is short-lived as she embarks on a new case in the Special Investigation Branch.

Eric Carr, a local gangster, is dead after crashing his car on the outskirts of Leeds. Not only that, but an alarming discovery is made in the boot: weapons, including guns, stolen from a US military base, to be sold on the black market.

Was the crash simply an accident, or something more sinister? One thing’s for sure – Eric’s death has set a chain of murder and gangland chaos in motion. As the number of people disappearing increases, and men start dying, Cathy must work out who is pulling the strings, and why.

[sufue]

A couple of books in Alan Gordon's Fool's Guild series are on sale for $2.99 in the US, and discountable at Kobo US.

A Death in the Venetian Quarter, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008S0JVYK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-d...tian-quarter-1

The Lark's Lament, #6
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNTTECQ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lark-s-lament-1

[sufue]

And now $0.50 for the omnibus of four books - hard to imagine paying less for four books at 12.5 cents each, unless it goes free. Only at Kindle US right now, and these Open Road $0.50 books don't usually drop at Kobo US, although they typically can be price-matched. But FWIW, I've been having major problems in the last week or so with Kobo price-match...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Pieter Van In Mysteries is an ominbus of the only four titles in the series (by Pieter Aspe) that have been translated into English - at least according to SYKM. The omnibus has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). All of the titles have been on sale individually before at various times, so check carefully before you buy. I've read and enjoyed all four of these, and wish that some more of the remaining loooooong series would get translated from what I assume is Flemish.

The titles in the ominbus are:

• The Square of Revenge
• The Midas Murders
• From Bruges with Love
• The Fourth Figure

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07781WXM4/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...n-in-mysteries

[cc_in_oh]

Originally Posted by sufue

And now $0.50 for the omnibus of four books - hard to imagine paying less for four books at 12.5 cents each, unless it goes free. Only at Kindle US right now, and these Open Road $0.50 books don't usually drop at Kobo US, although they typically can be price-matched. But FWIW, I've been having major problems in the last week or so with Kobo price-match...

Damn! I paid 75 cents for this in Oct2024. Gotta learn to be more patient!

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Damn! I paid 75 cents for this in Oct2024. Gotta learn to be more patient!

Me too!

[sufue]

And me too, actually...

[GA Russell]

Three years ago I read all of the Jonathan Latimer novels I could find.

The first was called Solomon's Vineyard.
Here it is for 99 cents.
https://www.amazon.com/Solomons-Vine...ILA/ref=sr_1_2

It was also released as The Fifth Grave.
Here it is for $7.99
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Grave-J...CQQ/ref=sr_1_3

And now for the next week, it is available (with a few short stories) for $1.99.

Mystery Book Magazine
August, 1946
https://www.radioarchives.com/Myster...t_p/re1436.htm

[sufue]

Skin & Bone is the fourth Cragg/Fidelis historical mystery by Robin Blake. It's $0.50 at Kindle US right now. It's not on sale at Kobo US - Kobo never natively gets these $0.50 markdowns. But in theory you can price match, although I'm having a TON of trouble with Kobo price matches right now, which is why I'm saying "in theory".

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DSWKB0A
Kobo US (for price check/match): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/skin-bone-1

Spoiler:

It's 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's inquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants dead set on modernizing the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners—and Cragg's apparent championship of them—as obstacles to their plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get rid of the tanners once and for all.

But the inquest into the baby's death is disrupted when the inn where it is being held mysteriously burns down, and Cragg himself faces a charge of lewdness, jeopardizing his whole future as a coroner. But the fates have not finished playing with him just yet. The sudden and suspicious death of a very prominent person may just, with the help of Fidelis's sharp forensic skills, bring about Cragg's redemption...

[sufue]

So a few years ago, there was a discussion on here about the Sister Mary Helen series by Carol Anne O'Marie, and a general agreement that the $7.99 to $11.99-ish prices for decades-old backlist were pretty absurd. Now the books in the series have started being discounted from time to time, usually to $2.99, which I still consider too much for decades-old backlist, but occasionally to $1.99, which is more in my range. I read most or all of these in DTB, back in those days, and have vague but fond memories of them as good cozies. Nothing super special, but also a bit of extra fun for me with the San Francisco setting, which is near where I grew up.

And now the first book in the series, Novena for Murder, is on sale for $1.99, so you can try it to see if you like it without spending too much. And several others are are at $2.99 right now as well.

Novena for Murder, #1, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JTHJUS
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/novena-for-murder-1

Spoiler:

Readers have come to delight in the murder-solving exploits of septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen, a nun with a nose for trouble.

Publishers Weekly calls the Sister Mary Helen Mysteries "refreshingly different". Once you meet this spry, clever sleuth, you'll want to make a habit of reading her adventures again and again.

Sister Mary Helen isn't ready for retirement. Instead she's arrived at a San Francisco women's college to teach history and perhaps shake things up. An earthquake does that before she can, and amid the rubble lies a body. An "Act of God" is not responsible for the death, but rather murder. One of Sister Helen's fellow nuns begins a novena to St. Dismas, "the Good Thief" predicting the saint will reveal the murderer within nine days. Sure enough the police soon nab a suspect...but Sister Mary Helen believes it's the wrong man and begins her own pursuit of the killer. Her motive is justice...and her inspiration, simply divine.

Sister Mary Helen webpage for other books in the series
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RP62NK3...kindle_edition
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/si...en-mysteries-1

Oh, and they're discountable at Kobo US if you have a coupon or VIP...

[sufue]

Now on sale for $1.99/£1.99 in the US/UK, which is still a really good price for 7 books.

@mitford13's link down below still works in the US, and here's the UK link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGJ4NQWW

I still giggle about the gin, and need to reread that one...

Originally Posted by sufue

Ooooh, me too! I really like that series, especially the part in one book where Francesca? someone? feeds an older boy tenor gin to help him sing a bit longer before his imminent voice change!

I had a few of these from when they were "Ostara Publishing", but hardly ever went on sale - now they are "Joffe Ostara", and on sale. I hope that bodes well for a couple of other Ostara authors I like. And at $0.99 for all, I don't care that I already had a few...

Originally Posted by mitford13

Excited to see all of Janet Neel’s Francesca Wilson & John McLeish series reissued and the complete box set of 7 on sale for .99. The original series first was Death’s Bright Angel and all the books had Death in the title; looks like they’ve all been renamed with Fatal in the title.

https://www.amazon.com/COMPLETE-MYST...dp/B0CGJ4NQWW/