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Salt River is the 26th and most recent (2020) in the Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White. It is $1.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T8THFKT/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07T8THFKT/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/salt-river-5

Spoiler:

The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson in this thrilling new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White.

Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly fathered multiple children via for-profit sperm bank donations. Thanks to genealogy websites, Tomlinson's now-grown offspring have tracked him down, seeking answers about their roots. . . but Doc quickly grows suspicious that one of them might be planning something far more nefarious than a family reunion.

With recent history on his mind, Doc is unsurprised when his own dicey past is called into question. Months ago, he'd quietly "liberated" a cache of precious Spanish coins from a felonious treasure hunter, and now a number of unsavory individuals, including a disgraced IRS investigator and a corrupt Bahamian customs agent, are after their cut. Caught between watching his own back and Tomlinson's, Doc has no choice but to get creative--before rash past decisions escalate to deadly present-day dangers.

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Two British Library Crime Classics books of Christmas stories are 1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Sto...t%2C187&sr=1-9

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Nights...%2C187&sr=1-10

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Now $2.99 at Kindle US, not at Kobo US, at least so far...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E78ICZ6/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00E78ICZ6/

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The Outcast Dead is the 6th in the Dr Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ELIF0UC/

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Dangerous Women by Otto Penzler - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D4W94C

From Booklist
Mystery guru Penzler (prolific editor, bookseller, and founder of Mysterious Press) has convinced 17 contemporary mystery writers to submit never-before-published short stories for this anthology. The lineup includes plenty of heavyweights: Ed McBain, Anne Perry, Elmore Leonard, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ian Rankin.

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Agent Running In The Field - John LeCarre $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

The Dower House Mystery - Patricia Wentworth $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

And Sometimes I Wonder About You - Walter Mosley $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
I have never read this author, but he is an Edgar Grand Master.

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Hollywood Crows by Joseph Wambaugh is $1.99 at Amazon US.

There's several Wambaugh novels published by Open Road that go on sale all the time. This isn't one of those.

In a super follow-up to Hollywood Station, Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a darkly funny ride-along with a cast of flawed LAPD cops and eccentric lowlifes you won't forget.

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't the only one with a deadly plan.

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Again on sale for the holidays, although this time a little earlier .

Links below are still good, or here's the Smile one if you want it:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0063OCY6U

Originally Posted by sufue

And yet another holiday-themed title...although this one is coming pretty late. Luckily e-books don't need to be shipped .

Aunt Dimity's Christmas, by Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity series #5, $1.99

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0063OCY6U
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/aun...ty-s-christmas

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Season of Snows and Sins (Henry Tibbett Book 10) by Patricia Moyes 1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Season-Snows-...8228628&sr=8-4

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And yet another holiday-themed mystery on sale...

Lark! The Herald Angels Sing is the 24th in the Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews - a series that is long enough that she has written five (count 'em, five) other holiday mysteries during its run. That's an impressive amount of holiday cheer.

I read the first half or so of this series a long time ago in DTB, but sort of lost track of it after that. Recently, though, I had a chance to read an ARC of one of the recent titles, and found I enjoyed it just as much as I remembered - not just for the awesome (or awesomely bad!) titles, but for the moments when I end up laughing out loud. So, I have to read these while I'm alone...

Anyway, Lark is $2.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079DVPYQR
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B079DVPYQR
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lar...ld-angels-sing

Spoiler:

It’s Christmastime in Caerphilly and Meg, full of holiday spirit, is helping out with the town's festivities. While directing a nativity pageant and herding the children participating in it, she finds a surprise in the manger: a live baby.

A note from the mother, attached to the baby girl’s clothes, says that it’s time for her father to take care of her—and implicates Meg’s brother, Rob, as the father. And while a DNA test can reveal whether there's any truth to the accusation, Rob's afraid the mere suspicion could derail his plan to propose to the woman he loves. Meg quickly realizes it's up to her to find the baby's real identity.

She soon discovers that the baby—named Lark according to the fateful note—may be connected to something much bigger. Something that eventually puts a growing number of Meg’s friends and family in danger. And before long, Meg realizes she can’t fix things single-handedly. Meanwhile, a war is brewing between Caerphilly and its arch-rival Clay County—and it's not a snowball fight. Can Meg bring everyone together in time for the holidays?

As in her previous Christmas mysteries, Andrews continues to write “firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie’s Christmas books” (Toronto Globe and Mail) with a book that will put cozy lovers everywhere in a holly jolly mood.

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Night Moves is the 33rd in the Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072HYWT73
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B072HYWT73
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/night-moves-54

Spoiler:

Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That’s when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read between the lines, where the darkest motives lurk. And if ever the good doctor’s insight is needed, it’s at the scene of a murder as baffling as it is brutal.

There’s no spilled blood, no evidence of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim’s missing face and hands, no immediate means of identification. And no telling why the disfigured corpse of a stranger has appeared in an upscale L.A. family’s home. Chet Corvin, his wife, and their two teenage children are certain the John Doe is unknown to them. Despite that, their cooperation seems guarded. And that’s more than Milo and Alex can elicit from the Corvins’ creepy next-door neighbor—a notorious cartoonist with a warped sense of humor and a seriously antisocial attitude.

As the investigation ensues, it becomes clear that this well-to-do suburban enclave has its share of curious eyes, suspicious minds, and loose lips. And as Milo tightens the screws on potential persons of interest—and Alex tries to breach the barriers that guard their deepest secrets—a strangling web of corrupted love, cold-blooded greed, and shattered trust is exposed. Though the grass may be greener on these privileged streets, there’s enough dirt below the surface to bury a multitude of sins. Including the deadliest.

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Always a treat on the rare occasion when one of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin titles goes on sale...

The Father Hunt is $2.99/£1.99 in the US/UK right now.

Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003M68TIO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-father-hunt
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003M68TIO

Spoiler:

All pretty Amy Denovo wants to find the father she has never seen, but she can’t afford Nero Wolfe’s outlandish fees . . . or can she? Suddenly she’s knocking on the oversized detective’s door with a parcel full of bills in hand—and a quarter of a million hidden in her closet. It’s all part of a nest egg left by her unknown father. But when Wolfe and his able assistant, Archie Goodwin, begin to trace the money to the man, they make a startling discovery: Amy’s father murdered her mother—and now he may be after her.

If you want non-Smile links, replace the "smile" in the URL with "www".

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Night Work is the fourth in the Kate Martinelli/Alonzo Hawkin series by Laurie R King, who is much better known for her excellent IMO Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. Night Work has dropped to $1.99/£1.49 in the US/UK.

Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Night-Work-...dp/B002IPZJWY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/night-work-4
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Night-Wor...dp/B002IPZJWY/

Spoiler:

Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail--and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until a second body turns up--also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and carrying a candy bar. This victim: a convicted rapist. As newspaper headlines speculate about vendetta killings, a third death draws Kate and Al into a network of pitiless destruction that reaches far beyond San Francisco, a modern-style hit list with shudderingly primal roots.

If you want non-Smile links, replace the "smile" in the URL with "www".

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Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch is just £1.99 today at Amazon UK.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BW6LCPH/

A collection of short stories set in his Rivers of London series.

(Fantasy/Mystery/Police procedural, so I'm posting in two threads)

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Another title in the Dead End Job series by Elaine Viets has gone free at Kindle US and UK. Catnapped! is #13 in the series, and was previously free as part of an omnibus of later titles in the series, but here it is again if you missed the omnibus, or just like having them individually without having to split the omnibus yourself !

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079THNYR4
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079THNYR4

Spoiler:

From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.

If there’s one thing the very wealthy might value even more than their money, it’s their precious pets. So when local socialite Trish Barrymore hires Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont to recover her beloved show cat—named January’s Jubilee Justine—from her ex-husband Mortimer, the case seems simple enough.

But when the husband-and-wife PI team show up to take possession of Justine, they’re greeted not by a cute kitten but a murdered Mort—knocked on the noggin by a mahogany cat tower. And the feline is nowhere to be found.

To get the scoop on who could have committed the dire deed, Helen takes a job as a cat groomer. But as she navigates the cutthroat world of cat shows—and their equally catty owners—she discovers there is much more to the crime than just a purloined pussycat…

Oh yeah, and for moderators who may not be familiar with this series, this was previously conventionally published by Signet.

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Originally Posted by sufue

Another title in the Dead End Job series by Elaine Viets has gone free at Kindle US and UK. Catnapped! is #13 in the series, and was previously free as part of an omnibus of later titles in the series, but here it is again if you missed the omnibus, or just like having them individually without having to split the omnibus yourself !

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079THNYR4
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079THNYR4



Oh yeah, and for moderators who may not be familiar with this series, this was previously conventionally published by Signet.

As of right now, anyway, Board Stiff (number 12 in the series) is also available FREE.

https://www.amazon.com/Board-Stiff-D...dp/B079THG71Y/