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[sufue]

Most of the lesser known Agatha Christie titles don't go on sale very often in the US, so it's nice when one drops in price.

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, apa The Patriotic Murders, apa An Overdose of Death, has dropped to $1.99 as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal today, matched at Kobo US. It's about 1/2 way through Christie's Hercule Poirot series.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/One-Two-Buckl...dp/B000FC2NGM/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/one...ckle-my-shoe-1

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Ben Hope Collection is a collection of the first six titles in the Ben Hope series by Scott Mariani. It is a US Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99, so if a "former British Special Air Service (SAS) officer investigating apocalyptic mysteries" is your type of thing (to quote SYKM), here's a chance to get a bunch on the cheap. Not matched at Kobo US, at least as of now.

https://www.amazon.com/Ben-Hope-Coll...dp/B00810SB8O/

I started to get real excited about this, but then realized I already own it.

I guess I'll at least have to read the first story.

[sufue]

A Taste for Vengeance is the 11th and most recent, for the moment (new one coming in June), in the Bruno, Chief of Police series by Martin Walker. It has dropped to $2.99 at both Kindle and Kobo US. Titles in this excellent (IMO) series don't go on sale very often in the US, especially not the most recent one...so grab it if you want it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075PVQHK3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-t...or-vengeance-2

[HarryT]

John Grisham's "The Runaway Jury" is part of today's Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal for 99p. I've read this and really enjoyed it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003IDMUXG

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by sufue

A Taste for Vengeance is the 11th and most recent, for the moment (new one coming in June), in the Bruno, Chief of Police series by Martin Walker. It has dropped to $2.99 at both Kindle and Kobo US. Titles in this excellent (IMO) series don't go on sale very often in the US, especially not the most recent one...so grab it if you want it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075PVQHK3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-t...or-vengeance-2

Per your direction, I grabbed it! Thanks

[ZodWallop]

Perfidia by James Ellroy is $2.99 at Amazon.

A number of James Ellroy's early novels regularly go on sale, but this isn't one of those.

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.

The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith—Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls—comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.

[sufue]

Glad to be of service

Originally Posted by MickeyC

Per your direction, I grabbed it! Thanks

[GA Russell]

Missing You - Harlan Coben - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Missing-You-H...dp/B00DMCPQUW/

[Tarana]

The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who series...) is $1.99 at Amazon US and Kobo. This is book 4 of the series.

[ZodWallop]

Cross posted from the fiction thread:

The Invention of Fire by Bruce Holsinger is $1.99 at Amazon.

I wanted to read his earlier A Burnable Book, but I missed that one when it was on sale.

London, 1386. A mass murder has taken place within the city walls. Sixteen corpses have been dumped where they are sure to be found, bearing wounds like none seen before.

John Gower, middling poet and expert trader in secrets, is summoned to investigate the killings even as the ruthless mayor of London seeks to thwart an open inquiry for reasons unknown. Gower learns that the men have fallen victim to handgonnes, new and terrifying weapons that threaten to change the future of war.

Challenged by deception and treachery on all sides, Gower struggles against his failing vision even as his inquiries take him from the city’s labyrinthine slums to the port of Calais to the forests of Kent, where his friend Geoffrey Chaucer serves as justice of the peace. As Gower strives to discover the source of the new guns and the identity of those who wielded them, he must risk everything to reveal the truth–and prevent a more devastating massacre on London’s crowded streets. . . .

[pdurrant]

Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders is £0.99 at Amazon UK today.

[Fbone]

Breakdown (Alex Delaware Book 31) by Jonathan Kellerman is $1.99 at most retailers.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=x9gGCgAAQBAJ

[Fbone]

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie is $2.99 at most retailers.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=ISIPsmr4-hQC

[ZodWallop]

Mark Billingham's first novel, Sleepyhead, is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I originally read it years ago, But remember really enjoying it.

His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate . . .

Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skillful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel and is aware of everything going on around her, but is completely unable to move or communicate. Her condition is called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer made his first mistake.

Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth; it isn’t Alison who is the mistake, it’s the three women already dead. The killer is getting his kicks out of toying with Thorne as much as he is pursuing his sick fantasy, and as the detective zeroes in on a suspect, he finds himself pushed to his personal and professional limits . . .

[HarryT]

"Smiley's People" by John Le Carre is part of today's Amazon UK Daily Deal for 99p.