FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Originally Posted by MarcoDiWA

Is this a dead thread? Nothing in last 5 years?

I think you opened the thread to the first page, which is from 2017 -- five years ago. There are ways to navigate to the most recent post, through the pages, etc. You'll get the hang of it.

[ZodWallop]

Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino is $2.99 at Amazon US.

From the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment. This is the compelling story of a brutal crime and the two teenagers—Ryo, the son of the murdered man, and Yukiho, the daughter of the main suspect—whose lives remain inextricably linked over the twenty-year search for the truth behind the crime.

In Osaka in 1973, the body of a murdered man is found in an abandoned building. Investigating the crime, Detective SasagakI is unable to find the killer. Over the next twenty years, through the lens of a succession of characters, Higashino tells the story of two teens, Ryo and Yukiho, whose lives are most affected by the crime, and the obsessed detective, Sasagaki, who continues to investigate the murder, looking for the elusive truth.

Under the Midnight Sun is a complex, psychological novel about crime and its after-effects by one the most read and most accomplished contemporary mystery author. A twisting, compelling work that will astonish and delight Higashino’s old fans and new readers alike.

[ZodWallop]

Falling by T.J. Newman is $2.99 at Amazon US.

You just boarded a flight to New York.

There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.

What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.

For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.

The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.

Enjoy the flight.

[sufue]

Two Bertha Cool/Donald Lam books by Erle Stanley Gardner are $1.99 right now in the US, both about 1/4 of the way through the series. And they are both discountable at Kobo US (coupon code "Partners22" is still working for 40% off).

Owls Don’t Blink, #6
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VSLTJDK
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09VSLTJDK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/owls-don-t-blink-1

Bats Fly at Dusk, #7
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VRR528V
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09VRR528V
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bats-fly-at-dusk-1

[sufue]

Shell Game is now $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Not the next-to-most-recent anymore, though...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075WSLKB2
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B075WSLKB2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/shell-game-18

Originally Posted by sufue

Shell Game is the next-to-most-recent (if you don't count a book of short stories) in the VI Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky. Per SYKM, it won the 2019 Sue Grafton Award. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C2DR1CT
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C2DR1CT

[ZodWallop]

A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale is $0.99 at Amazon US.

13-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. spends most of his time helping his family run the town’s drive-in movie theater, reading ten-cent comics, and playing with his dog Nub. Life in East Texas circa 1958 is not very exciting until Stanley discovers a stash of old, crumbling love letters in a pile of burnt rubble behind the drive-in. As Stanley reads through the letters, he finds himself in the middle of a town mystery and discovering the secrets of his sleepy town. Stanley, with the help of the old projectionist and his older sister, uncovers the identities of the people who penned the letters and sheds light on a shocking 20 year-old murder plot. As Stanley unearths more and more truths, he realizes the injustices of life in East Texas in the 1950’s including class, race, gender, and the cruelty of unrequited love. Stanley feels betrayed by his family and his town as he takes a closer look at the dark truth and refuses to allow himself to succumb to the darkness.

[Quoth]

Wildfire at midnight 90% reduction to 87p https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004XCFRBI (Mary Stewart)
One of her thrillers.

[tch65721]

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0151YQUTE

Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel and the 2017 International Thriller Writers Award For Best Novel
From the Award-Winning Creator of Fargo Comes "One of the Year's Best Suspense Novels" (New York Times).

[sufue]

Riverwoman's Dragon is the thirteenth and most recent (2021) in Candace Robb's Owen Archer series. It has dropped to $1.99/£1.99 in the US/UK respectively, and it's discountable at Kobo.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099MT1N29
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B099MT1N29
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/riv...n-s-dragon-the
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099MT1N29
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099MT1N29

Spoiler:

When the wise woman Magda Digby is suspected of murder, Owen Archer sets out to prove her innocence in this intricately plotted medieval mystery.

May, 1375. Owen Archer returns from London to find York in chaos. While the citizens are living in terror of the pestilence which is spreading throughout the land, a new physician has arrived, whipping up fear and suspicion against traditional healers and midwives. With the backing of the new archbishop, he is especially hostile towards Magda Digby, the wise woman who has helped and healed the people of York for many years. At the same time, Magda is uneasy about the arrival of two long-lost kinsfolk. Though they say they are seeking her help, she senses a hidden agenda.

Magda’s troubles deepen when she discovers a body in the river near her home – and finds herself under suspicion of murder. Days later, fire rips through a warehouse in the city. Amongst the charred debris lies the body of a man – not burned, but stabbed in the back. Could there be a connection to the corpse in the river?

Determined to prove Magda’s innocence, Owen sets out to find answers – but the more he uncovers, the deeper the mystery becomes . . .

[sufue]

The Poisoning in the Pub is the tenth in the Fethering series by Simon Brett. It has dropped to £2.84 (weird price) at Kindle UK. I've read and liked a lot of the books in this series, but haven't read this one, so I'm happy...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HDHTMKG
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HDHTMKG

Spoiler:

Welcome to Fethering! Carole and Jude spring into amateur detective action when their favourite pub is targeted by a killer in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery.

Jude and Carole get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified, and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor.

Left with a bad taste in their mouths - and not just from the food - the two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck that's forcing their favourite pub into bankruptcy.

When a young man is found in the kitchen of the pub, though, with a knife through his heart, Carole and Jude swing into action. There's a killer on the loose in Fethering, and Carole and Jude need to uncover who it is before it's last orders for the pub - and themselves.

[Spinningwoman]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Poisoning in the Pub is the tenth in the Fethering series by Simon Brett. It has dropped to £2.84 (weird price) at Kindle UK. I've read and liked a lot of the books in this series, but haven't read this one, so I'm happy...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HDHTMKG
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HDHTMKG

That’s interesting - I’ve been reading through the series when I could find them on Libby and this was one of the few I couldn’t find. I eventually read it on a free Scribd trial.

[sufue]

I've been picking them up bit by bit, when they go on sale, which is not very often for most of them. At this point, the only one I need now (other than the two most recent, which is to be expected) is Guns in the Gallery. But it has taken a really really long time to pick them all up at prices I consider acceptable - and £2.84 for Poisoning almost didn't make the cut, but the dollar is pretty strong right now, so WTH.

Originally Posted by Spinningwoman

That’s interesting - I’ve been reading through the series when I could find them on Libby and this was one of the few I couldn’t find. I eventually read it on a free Scribd trial.

[sufue]

Greeks Bearing Gifts is the next-to-last in the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr, at least by publication order, but it's the last chronologically because Metropolis is a prequel. (At least per SYKM - I haven't read Metropolis yet...) Greeks has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072L23VRT
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072L23VRT

Spoiler:

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD

1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on.

Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a sunken ship, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an act of vengeance.

And so Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe prepares to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks they may have a point.

[sufue]

The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 1 by Ngaio Marsh contains the first – third books in the series: A Man Lay Dead, Enter a Murderer, and The Nursing Home Murder. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, and it’s discountable at Kobo, where coupon code “Partners22” was still working (as of this morning) for 40% off on one book per checkout cart. (But you can do as many carts as you wish – or have patience for 😀.)

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NJPP2NJ
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09NJPP2NJ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...eries-volume-1

Spoiler:

This volume includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:

A Man Lay Dead: During a country-house party between the two world wars, servants bustle, gin flows, and the host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game . . .

Enter a Murderer: A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage in a mystery “good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories” (The New York Times).

The Nursing Home Murder: A Member of Parliament has unexpectedly died on a visit the hospital, and any number of people could be suspects, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals . . .

[sufue]

All four of Andrea Carter's Inishowen books are on sale right now in the US for $0.99 each, and they're discountable at Kobo US. I've read three of the four, and as I mentioned before, I liked the mysteries, but enjoyed the setting and sense of the remote Inishowen peninsula (Ireland) even more.

Death at Whitewater Church, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DZ1WHP3
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07DZ1WHP3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...water-church-4

Treacherous Strand, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TRD9Z31
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07TRD9Z31
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/treacherous-strand-2

The Well of Ice, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086KXFB9M
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B086KXFB9M
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-well-of-ice-1

Murder at Greysbridge, #4
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SRBTHGH
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08SRBTHGH
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mur...-greysbridge-1

And if you want to read my review of the third book, it's on my blog - the URL is in my signature....