FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by sufue

If you find you like the one, they are now e-pubbed by Open Road/Mysterious Press, which means they go on sale a lot. Enough that I don't post them any more unless they are free, or maybe if they are on sale for $0.99 instead of $1.99, or in a really good deal for an omnibus.

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out.

I see seven of the original Hardy Boys books for free today.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Hardy-Boy...s_kss_ap_sba_1

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out.

I see seven of the original Hardy Boys books for free today.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Hardy-Boy...s_kss_ap_sba_1

I don't think they are original. The covers are all different and I'm thinking the text has been edited to be more politically correct.

[Hollow Man]

Originals are going to be tough to come by because they revised these a long time ago: from 1959 to 1973. A bunch of the originals are in the public domain, so maybe someone has done the work to make ebooks out of them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

Originals are going to be tough to come by because they revised these a long time ago: from 1959 to 1973. A bunch of the originals are in the public domain, so maybe someone has done the work to make ebooks out of them.

I just did the first book in the Hardy Boys series. It's posted in the library here.

[fjdk]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

Originals are going to be tough to come by because they revised these a long time ago: from 1959 to 1973. A bunch of the originals are in the public domain, so maybe someone has done the work to make ebooks out of them.

fyi, stumbled over the below...as mentioned by Hollow Man, looks like the first 8 hardy boys are PD and both project gutenberg and standard ebooks have them available:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55530
https://standardebooks.org/collections/the-hardy-boys

[fjdk]

fyi, new Michael Connelly book "Ironwood" from the new Catalina Island series is on sale in GB at amazon and kobo for £0.99:

https://www.amazon.co.uk
https://www.kobo.com/gb

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by fjdk

fyi, stumbled over the below...as mentioned by Hollow Man, looks like the first 8 hardy boys are PD and both project gutenberg and standard ebooks have them available.

I had no idea they revised these so long ago, meaning the ones I read as a kid in the 70s were probably the changed ones. So for anyone thinking a la the recent Agatha Christie changes this is primarily a new thing...nope!

[sufue]

Now $1.99 in the US...

@Fbone's link is still good, and here's the Kobo US link: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/b-is-for-burglar

Unfortunately, the blurb on both Kindle's and Kobo's US websites is for the "C" book, so here's the blurb from the UK version:

Spoiler:

Winner of the first Anthony Award for Best Novel, B is for Burglar is the second in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what’s going to happen next . . .

There was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. There was a will to be settled. She paid up front. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn’t going to argue.

She kicked herself later for the things she didn’t see – Beverly Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars and she didn’t seem like someone longing for a family reunion. But just as Kinsey begins to suspect foul play and start asking questions, Beverly Danziger pulls her off the case and fires her . . .

And, per SYKM, not only did it win the 1986 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, it also won the 1986 Shamus Award for Best Novel...

Originally Posted by Fbone

"B" is for Burglar by Sue Grafton is $2.99

https://smile.amazon.com/B-Burglar-K...s%2C166&sr=8-1

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by fjdk

fyi, stumbled over the below...as mentioned by Hollow Man, looks like the first 8 hardy boys are PD and both project gutenberg and standard ebooks have them available:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55530
https://standardebooks.org/collections/the-hardy-boys

I used the Gutenberg source. I changed the quotes to smart quotes and fixed some typos.

[sufue]

The most recent (2025) Temperance Brennan book by Kathy Reichs, Evil Bones, is £0.99 in the UK today, as part of the Kindle Daily Deal, and matched at Kobo UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DM6KWD3G
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/evil-bones-4

Spoiler:

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returns in a case that will test her to her limit.

OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THE WORLD, ONLY HUMANS HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR EVIL…

Small animals have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the same bizarre manner. Now it seems the perp is upping the ante. When Temperance Brennan visits the latest crime scene, she finds that the victim is a dog. Somebody’s pet.

Vowing to find whoever is responsible, Tempe is disturbed to learn from a forensic psychologist that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries to come. And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the earlier killings. As Tempe follows the horrifying clues to a shocking conclusion, she finds herself forced to confront an increasingly terrifying question.

What is pure evil?

[ZodWallop]

The List of 7 by Mark Frost is $1 at Amazon and Kobo. Highly recommended.

A young Arthur Conan Doyle confronts an occult conspiracy in "a ripping good tale" by the New York Times–bestselling author and co-creator of Twin Peaks (The Washington Post Book World).
As the city of London slumbers, there are those in its midst who conspire to rule the world through the darkest and most nefarious means. These seven, seated in positions of extraordinary power and influence, marshal forces from the far side to aid them in their fiendish endeavor.
In the aftermath of a bloody séance and a terrifying supernatural contact, a courageous young doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle finds himself drawn into a malevolent conspiracy beyond human comprehension, and into the company of a mysterious genius named Jack Sparks.
The future is not safe, as a thousand-year reign of pure evil is about to begin—unless a small group of stalwart champions can unravel the unspeakable mysteries behind a crime far more terrible than murder...

[Kieran Seymour]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The List of 7 by Mark Frost is $1 at Amazon and Kobo. Highly recommended.

Good find!

99p at Amazon and Kobo in the UK - 89p for Kobo VIPs

[sufue]

A year or so later, An Enemy in the Village, by Martin Walker, is on sale in the US for $1.99. Just for today, most likely, since it's a Kindle Daily Deal that has been matched at Kobo.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGP91N83
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/an-...-the-village-1

Spoiler:

A real estate agent’s death sends shockwaves through the idyllic town of St. Denis, leading Bruno, Chief of Police, to suspect that there’s more to this tragedy than meets the eye.

“Rich in atmosphere and personality. . . It’s impossible to read a Bruno novel without getting hungry and thirsty.” —The New York Times

When Bruno stumbles upon a motionless figure in a car parked at a scenic overpass on the ridge of the Vézère valley, he’s ready to investigate. Inside, he finds a suicide note and the dead body of Monique, a successful businesswoman who rented châteaus to wealthy expats. It seems like an open-and-shut case.

But Bruno can’t shake the suspicion that something sinister lurks underneath this tidy narrative. After he delivers Monique’s final messages to those most important to her, malicious gossip about Bruno begins to spread through the village. One thing leads to another, and soon Bruno faces pressure to resign from the job. Despite this disturbing turn of events, Bruno remains Bruno, never one to turn down a fine meal with good company in the French countryside. In the course of inquiry, he meets Laura—and her dog, which happens to be the same breed as his beloved basset hound. As sparks fly and Bruno realizes just how much he has at stake, he races to find out what really happened to Monique, before he loses his badge, his new love—or something even worse.

Originally Posted by Apache

Actually the 17th, A Grave in the Woods came out in September of 2024. The newest An Enemy in the Village will be released July 1, 2025. The audio is being released June 5, 2025.
Apache

[DrNefario]

It seems to be the normal, regular price, rather than any kind of special deal, but I think it probably counts as a bargain:

Leslie Thomas's Complete Dangerous Davies omnibus of 3 books is 99p on the UK kindle store.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Da...dp/B004XIVP40/

(Some of?) these were made into the Last Detective TV series starring Peter Davison in the 2000s.

Note that it's not actually complete. The fourth book is £1.99. It was only complete at the time the original paperback version was published in 1995.

Most of Leslie Thomas's catalogue seems weirdly cheap.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

Most of Leslie Thomas's catalogue seems weirdly cheap.

Also all on Kobo UK.