FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is nine Lynda La Plante mysteries/thrillers for £0.99 each.

Link to the Big Deal webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/?_encodin...ode=4725112031

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Cat Laughing Last is the seventh in Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Joe Grey series. It's on sale for $1.99 in the US, and discountable at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W916G6
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cat-laughing-last-5

Spoiler:

Famous novelist Elliot Traynor is temporarily living in Molena Point. He and his wife don’t have much to do with the villagers, which is fine with them since no one particularly likes Vivi. But their arrival has coincided with some peculiar happenings in the town, culminating with a botched burglary in the home of 60-something Susan Brittain. Susan is a friend to feline detectives Joe Grey and Dulcie and they aren’t going to let this crime go unpunished. With whiskers twitching they investigate the crime and soon find themselves on the scent of a killer.

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Several years on, Port Mortuary is again £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Originally Posted by sufue

Four titles in the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell have dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Port Mortuary, #18: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0047ZH7H8

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Category Five is now free in the US and UK. @Fbone's link below is still good for Kindle US, and here are a couple more:

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/category-five-6
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0094GWY4G

I somehow ended up reading the most recent book in this series, Speed the Dawn, not too long ago, even though it looked more thrillerish than I usually go for. I picked it up mainly because it is set on the Monterey Peninsula, where I grew up, and have been visiting a lot again recently for family reasons. The plot was pretty good, with lots of technical detail, and seemed pretty tight to me. But Donlay's command of the setting was really something - down to detailed knowledge of topography, obscure roads, etc. I suspect he either lived there at some point, or knows (well) someone who does. Overall, I enjoyed Dawn, even without having read the previous books, so I'll be interested to see what this first book is like.

Originally Posted by Fbone

A weather featured thriller. Category Five (Donovan Nash #1) by Philip Donlay is $1.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Category-Fi...0952214&sr=8-6

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Joffe's Free Friday books include a mystery and an adventure/thriller...still free as of now (Saturday evening, US Pacific time)...

The Raven's Mark, Preston Murders #1, by Christie J Newport
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGY68WW8
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGY68WW8

Cast From The Sea, by Gerald Baum
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2TY5K3
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N2TY5K3

There is also a free romance, listed in that thread...

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Death at La Fenice is now £0.99 at Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0125SF7XO

Originally Posted by murraypaul

Death at La Fenice, the first in the Commissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon US. Several of the later books in the series are also on sale.

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Almost seven years on (!!!), The Body in the Moonlight is on sale again, this time for $1.99, which is still pretty good. And only at Kindle US, as of now, but you can always check Kobo too...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Body in the Moonlight is the 11th in the Faith Fairchild series by Katherine Hall Page. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000R4FXTW/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-the-moonlight

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The Consequences of Fear is now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BLLQDZF
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...nces-of-fear-1

Originally Posted by sufue

The Consequences of Fear is the 16th and most recent (until the new one comes out early next year) in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP47GPC
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP47GPC

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Deadly Trio is free now in the US. The links below are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Deadly Trio: 3 English Mysteries is an omnibus of the first three titles in the Lord and Lady Hetheridge series by Emma Jameson. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). I've read and enjoyed the five titles in this series.

Titles are:

• Ice Blue
• Blue Murder
• Something Blue

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KD32M7S
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...lish-mysteries

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I'm sure you can figure out which book in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series Dirty Thirty is . It's also the most recent (2023) as of now. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK, but, somewhat oddly, not at Kobo UK. Perhaps Kobo has yet to catch up, since it's only 3 am there, so I'm including that link too, for price check purposes.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BV6MW1ZF
Kobo UK (price-check): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/dirty-thirty-12

Spoiler:

Stephanie Plum, Trenton's most underappreciated bounty hunter, is on the trail of a stolen cache of dirty diamonds.

Stephanie's new assignment seems simple enough. A local jeweller wants her to locate his former security guard, who he is convinced has stolen a fortune in diamonds. Stephanie is also looking for another man arrested for robbing the same jewellery store on the same day.

With her boyfriend Morelli away on police business, Stephanie is taking care of Morelli's giant orange dog, who will devour anything, including the upholstery in Stephanie's car. Morelli's absence means the inscrutable, irresistible security expert Ranger is front and centre in Stephanie's life when things go sideways. And he seems determined to stay there.

An overnight stakeout with Stephanie's mother and Grandma Mazur reveals three generations of women with nerves of steel and driving skills worthy of the most daring stock-car champions.

As the body count rises and witnesses disappear, it's not easy for Stephanie to keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty. It's a good thing Stephanie isn't afraid of getting a little dirty, too.

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Yes, it’s 99p at Kobo now too. Thanks.
And Deadly Trio (post 7449) is free at Kobo UK and Amazon UK.

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Oh good, because I was waiting for it at Kobo UK too... ^^^^

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Cat Pay the Devil is the twelfth in Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Joe Grey series. It's on sale for $1.99/£1.99 in the US/UK right now. And it's discountable at Kobo...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W93AM4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cat-pay-the-devil-4
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000W93AM4

Spoiler:

Molena Point, California, should be a tranquil place. Nestled quietly on the Pacific coast miles below San Francisco, it's not the kind of town escaped convicts seek out. But if you're a thief named Cage Jones, you've just sprung yourself from the clink, and the woman who turned state's witness and helped put you behind bars lives there––where better to go than Molena Point?

Wily Tomcat Joe Grey knows that something sinister is afoot when he hears about Cage Jones––but he doubts that his girlfriend Dulcie's suspicions that the escaped thief is after Dulcie's human companion, Wilma, are justified. But when Jones shoots a federal officer, and the bodies of two peaceful, local residents are found brutally murdered in their home, even the suspicious Feline Detective knows that things are only going to get worse. Paw–in–paw with Dulcie and their tattercoat friend Kit, the indomitable feline trio––with special powers that only a few select humans are privy to––team up to capture the thief, and in one of award–winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy's most suspenseful and unforgettable books to date, bring peace to the town they love.

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A Matter of Justice is the eleventh book in Charles Todd's Ian Rutledge series. It's on sale in the US right now for $1.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NLKSZC
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-matter-of-justice

The blurb is pretty much useless, just a bunch of generic praise, but here it is if you want it:

Spoiler:

The Washington Post calls the Ian Rutledge novels by Charles Todd, “one of the best historical series being written today.” A Matter of Justice—the eleventh in the New York Times Notable, Edgar® Award-nominated, and Barry Award-winning series—brings back the haunted British police inspector and still shell-shocked World War One veteran in a tale of unspeakable murder in a small English village filled to bursting with dark secrets and worthy suspects. A New York Times bestseller as spellbinding and evocative as the best of Ruth Rendell, Anne Perry, Martha Grimes, and P.D. James, A Matter of Justice represents a new high for this exceptional storyteller.

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The Running Grave is the seventh and most recent (2023) Cormoran Strike/Robin Ellacott title by Robert Galbraith, which is a pen name for JK Rowling. It's £0.99 in the UK right now - probably only for a few hours more, so grab it if you want it!

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C3GYT8ZQ
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-running-grave-4

Spoiler:

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.

The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.

In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her . . .