FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Quoth]

They are very good, as are her Ellie Quicke mysteries. Read both Omnis.

Edit, I think there is a larger 1st block.

[sufue]

Good to know. I'll have to move them up on my TBR, but it's so long, it still may not help

Originally Posted by Quoth

They are very good, as are her Ellie Quicke mysteries. Read both Omnis.

Edit, I think there is a larger 1st block.

[sufue]

So, I have no idea if this series is going to start having more sales in the US, but at this moment, almost half of the titles in Laura Joh Rowland's Sano/Reiko Ichiro series are on sale for $2.99, and they are discountable at Kobo US. There were only two left that I needed, and I picked them both up just now.

The eight sale titles are: The Samurai’s Wife, Red Chrysanthemum, The Snow Empress, The Fire Kimono, The Cloud Pavilion, The Ronin’s Mistress, The Shogun’s Daughter, and The Iris Fan.

The links below are horrible, but should have the sale books listed first, and then some other strays…

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbook...price-asc-rank
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...fclanguages=en

[salty-horse]

The Keep by Jennifer Egan is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results.

And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

[salty-horse]

The Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King is on sale for $3 each (books 2–4) on Amazon.com
The series follows Sherlock Holmes' apprentice.

Yesterday the first book was also on sale, too, but now it's back to full price. (Oddly, it's not listed on Kobo)

[sufue]

All four books in Stevens' Beau Brummel series are $0.99/£0.77 at Kindle US/UK right now. Note that the first book in this series, Death on a Silver Tray, won the 2000 Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

Here are links to the series webpages:
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DYJTZFQ...kindle_edition
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DYJTZ...kindle_edition

Originally Posted by sufue

All four titles in Rosemary Steven's Beau Brummel historical mystery series and all three titles in her Bebe Bennett 1960's series (written as Rosemary Martin) have dropped to either $0.99 or $1.99 at Kindle US. I've read all of these back in DTB days and have good memories of them - they are pretty high on the cozy/cute factor, though. Not on sale (yet, at least) at Kobo US.

Titles in the Brummel series include:

• Death on a Silver Tray
• The Tainted Snuff Box
• The Bloodied Cravat
• Murder in the Pleasure Gardens

{edited other books/series}

[sufue]

A bunch of books in the Jack Daniels (Lt Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels) series by JA Konrath are free right now, including the first two, and a bunch more are available for $0.99 each at Kindle US. The first few books in the series were conventionally published, and per SYKM, the first book, Whiskey Sour, was a finalist for the 2005 Anthony and 2005 Macavity awards for best first novel. And the fourth book, Dirty Martini (yes, there is a theme here) was a finalist for the 2008 Barry award for best novel. At some point though, the author started self-publishing, so YMMV. But if you want to give the series a try, it's inexpensive/free right now.

link to the series webpage at Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMNQ5768...kindle_edition

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by sufue

All four books in Stevens' Beau Brummel series are $0.99/£0.77 at Kindle US/UK right now. Note that the first book in this series, Death on a Silver Tray, won the 2000 Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

Here are links to the series webpages:
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DYJTZFQ...kindle_edition
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DYJTZ...kindle_edition

They sound right up my street. Sadly not on Kobo, but £3.08 is too good a deal to pass them up. Thanks!

[Martinoptic]

↑ ↑ I've just got them too. Thank you.

[MickiTee]

Originally Posted by sufue

A bunch of books in the Jack Daniels (Lt Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels) series by JA Konrath are free right now, including the first two, and a bunch more are available for $0.99 each at Kindle US. The first few books in the series were conventionally published, and per SYKM, the first book, Whiskey Sour, was a finalist for the 2005 Anthony and 2005 Macavity awards for best first novel. And the fourth book, Dirty Martini (yes, there is a theme here) was a finalist for the 2008 Barry award for best novel. At some point though, the author started self-publishing, so YMMV. But if you want to give the series a try, it's inexpensive/free right now.

link to the series webpage at Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMNQ5768...kindle_edition

Also at Kindle UK.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by sufue

A bunch of books in the Jack Daniels (Lt Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels) series by JA Konrath are free right now, including the first two, and a bunch more are available for $0.99 each at Kindle US. The first few books in the series were conventionally published, and per SYKM, the first book, Whiskey Sour, was a finalist for the 2005 Anthony and 2005 Macavity awards for best first novel. And the fourth book, Dirty Martini (yes, there is a theme here) was a finalist for the 2008 Barry award for best novel. At some point though, the author started self-publishing, so YMMV. But if you want to give the series a try, it's inexpensive/free right now.

link to the series webpage at Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMNQ5768...kindle_edition

I've also received the email about these books. I've picked up the first 24. Thanks for the reminder.

[sufue]

Murder on Sea is the first in the Rina Martin series by Jane Adams. It's Joffe's free Friday/weekend book for a few more hours - apologies, I've been really busy this holiday weekend. I had a review copy of the eighth book in this series, Murder at the Willows, a couple of years ago, and enjoyed it. It was mostly a cozy, but with a bit of grit, and some good detecting.

Murder on Sea, originally published as A Reason to Kill
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09L4Z4YLN
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09L4Z4YLN

Spoiler:

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.

She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.

She retires to the sleepy town of Frantham-on-Sea. Here on the Dorset coast, she runs her own immaculate guest house and life is blissfully quiet.

Until . . .

A few doors down, harmless old Mrs Freer is bludgeoned to death, and Rina can’t help but be drawn into the mystery.

Mrs Freer’s home was ransacked, but this was no ordinary burglary.

Who knew the old lady kept a gun stashed under her pillow?
And who wanted it badly enough to kill?

Detective Sebastian McGregor is called in to solve this baffling case.

But with her neighbours’ safety at stake, Rina knows she needs to give him a helping hand.

[sufue]

The Widows of Malabar Hill is on sale again, this time for £0.76 at Kindle UK, £0.99 at Kobo UK (but discountable to £0.67 if you have VIP), and $1.99 in the US. The US links below are still good, and here are the UK links:

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07226BHDG
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...f-malabar-hill

Oh, and there are now four books in the series, with a fifth coming out in March of next year. And all of the four have been nominated for or won various awards.

Originally Posted by sufue

The Widows of Malabar Hill, apa A Murder on Malabar Hill, is, per SYKM, the much-awarded (Agatha, Lefty, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark) first title in the short two-book Perveen Mistry series by Sujata Massey. I've read and really enjoyed both books and hope more are in the works. in any case, Widows has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07226BHDG
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-malabar-hill

[salty-horse]

Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Adapted to film by Guillermo del Toro.

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him.

And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute bimbo (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.

[WashWest]

I found this one really enjoyable and great for book club discussions!

The Plot (The Book Series #1) by Jean Hanff Korelitz is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**

"Insanely readable." —Stephen King

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.

As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?