FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[salty-horse]

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett is $5 on Amazon.com, Kobo US
Was on my wishlist.

The mysterious connection between a teacher’s disappearance and an unsolved code in a children’s book is explored in this new novel from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) and author of The Appeal.

Forty years ago, Steven “Smithy” Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. When he showed it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, she believed that it was part of a secret code that ran through all of Twyford’s novels. And when she later disappeared on a class field trip, Smithy becomes convinced that she had been right.

Now, out of prison after a long stretch, Smithy decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. In a series of voice recordings on an old iPhone, Smithy alternates between visiting the people of his childhood and looking back on the events that later landed him in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Edith Twyford wasn’t just a writer of forgotten children’s stories. The Twyford Code holds a great secret, and Smithy may just have the key.

[sufue]

Almost two years later, No Vacation from Murder has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK, but has not dropped at Kindle US, but may still happen.

And the first in the series, Death of an Old Girl, is still $0.99/£0.99 if you want to try it first...

Originally Posted by sufue

Two more titles in Elizabeth Lemarchand's Tom Pollard/Gregory Toye series have dropped to $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK respectively. These are Kindle Countdown Deals, good for a bit more than 6 days.

No Vacation From Murder, #6
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L5VX7MQ/
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07L5VX7MQ/

{edited other book}

In addition, the first in the series, Death of an Old Girl, seems to be long term at $0.99/£0.99, so if you want to try the first one first, you can do it inexpensively.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FHK31X8/
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FHK31X8/

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by sufue

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is seven Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie for £0.99 each. Six are from early in the series, and the seventh is near the end.

Here's a link to the sale webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?node=4725112031

Are these the original text or are the versions with edited text?

I don't know when the edits will or have taken place for Agatha Christie books.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by sufue

I'm late with this, but it should be good for at least a few more hours...

This weekend's Joffe Free Fridays book is a box set: The Complete Merry & Neal Mysteries by Janice Frost. The six books in the set are listed in the blurb.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089B5ZZY1
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B089B5ZZY1

No longer free, but still a good deal for $0.99/£0.99. Plus, it's available on Kindle Unlimited.

[sufue]

A Great Deliverance is £0.99 right now at Kindle UK...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk//dp/B00590YKO8

Originally Posted by Tarana

A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George Book 1 Lynley Series. Amazon, Kobo

I notice that Amazon also has This Body of Death (book 16) is available for $4.99. Not as great of deal but if you need more of the series now, it works. Careless in Red (book 15) is $6.99. The rest are $9.99 and up.

[sufue]

Fallout is the most recent (2022) in Mike Lupica's estate-authorized continuation of Robert B Parker's Jesse Stone series. I've liked the previous continuation books of Lupica's that I've read.

Fallout is £0.99 at Kindle UK right now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B19BV2SB

Spoiler:

When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again.

The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult - the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further.

Jesse suddenly must divide his attention between two cases after the shocking murder of former Paradise police chief, Charlie Farrell. Before his death, Farrell had been looking into a series of scam calls that preyed upon the elderly. But how do these 'ghost calls' connect to his murder? When threats - and gunshots - appear on Jesse's own doorstep, the race to find answers is on. Both old and new enemies come into play, and in the end, Jesse and his team must discover the common factor between the two deaths in order to prevent a third.

Oh, and just noticed that Stone's Throw, the next-to-most-recent Lupica/Jesse Stone book, is also £0.99 at Kindle UK right now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09DV2TKML

Spoiler:

Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone.

The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal.

Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesse's: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow. Meanwhile, the town council is debating if they want to sacrifice Paradise's stately character for the economic boost of a glitzy new development. Tempers are running hot, and as the deaths begin to mount, it's increasingly clear that the mayor may have standing in the wrong person's way.

[sufue]

A Fatal Grace is now £0.99 at Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B098D7Y712

Originally Posted by sufue

A Fatal Grace is the second in the excellent and much-awarded Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US. Per the blurb, this was the winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Grace-I...dp/B0011UGLRY/

[sufue]

Trace Elements is on sale at Kindle UK for £0.99 right now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YL4DDYF

Originally Posted by sufue

Most of the books in Donna Leon's excellent Commissario Brunetti series, set in Venice, go on sale a lot, so I don't post them any more. Today, however, the most recent book in the series - at least until the next one comes out later this month - has dropped to $2.99 as part of today's US Kindle Daily Deal. It's not matched at Kobo, at least as of now. I haven't seen this one on sale for less either in the US or the UK so far, so here's the info...

Trace Elements, Commissario Guido Brunetti #29 (I'm trusting them on the counting), by Donna Leon

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Trace-Element...dp/B07YF4SD2L/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Trace-Eleme...dp/B07YF4SD2L/

[sufue]

Flash and Bones is the fourteenth Temperance Brennan book by Kathy Reichs. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK right now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005CVWWD0

Spoiler:

In the run up to the biggest NASCAR race week of the year, Dr Temperance Brennan is called to a landfill site backing onto the Charlotte speedway track in North Carolina. Someone has discovered a barrel of hardened asphalt with a human hand poking through the top.

With the country's press trained on Charlotte, it's up to Tempe to try to release and identify the body in the barrel. But there is more than one potential victim: the brother of a girl who went missing with her boyfriend ten years before comes forward, and the trail he sets in motion leads Tempe to one of America's largest fascist organisations.

But before she can discover anything, the FBI confiscate the body and destroy it. What terrible secret could they be hiding? As tension at the speedway mounts, Tempe tries to unravel the conspiracy of lies surrounding the missing couple, the body in the barrel, and the horrific death at the track of yet another victim.

[sufue]

Several years later, Book of the Dead is $1.99 again in the US. The links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Book of the Dead is the 15th in the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Sorry, rbruce1314, doesn't look as if it's on sale in the UK...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Dead-Sca...dp/B000W94G2W/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/book-of-the-dead-4

[sufue]

Street Dreams is the fifteenth in Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series. It's $1.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFLSK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/street-dreams-1

Spoiler:

Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present.

While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional -- in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.

Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice from her overworked father, Detective Peter Decker, Cindy plunges into her inner-city Hollywood district, a world of helpless people and violent gangs. Pursuing each new lead batters her complex relationships and endangers her life.

On one side: Decker and Decker, a brilliant but combative pair. On the other: a vicious killer ready to strike again. While on routine patrol, LAPD officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. Cindy searches for the mother in inner -city Hollywood, following a treacherous trail filled with drug lords. But with each new lead, the twisted journey gets darker -- and endangering her very life. When Decker and Decker join forces, can this edgy duo put personal issues aside to catch a vicious culprit before he strikes again?

[Tarana]

Knife By Jo Nesbø $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
crime

[sufue]

If you didn't buy The Vanishing Box a couple of years ago at $1.99, it's now $0.99 in the US - and discountable at Kobo US. The link below is still good for Kindle US, and here's the link for Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-vanishing-box-3

Originally Posted by sufue

Now $1.99 at Kindle US, not matched, at least as of now, at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Box...dp/B078986QGK/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Vanishing-B...dp/B078986QGK/

[sufue]

Joffe's Free Book Friday book this week is Due Diligence, which is the first in Paul Bennett's Nick Shannon thriller series. And although supposedly free for today only, these often remain free through the weekend, but as usual, I wouldn't count on it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DGP3R82
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09DGP3R82

Spoiler:

Nick Shannon is a convicted killer. But don’t let that put you off. He had his reasons.

Seven years ago his sister was paralysed by a hit-and-run driver. His fierce love for her made him agree to end her agonising pain with a heroin overdose.

Now Nick’s out of prison. All he wants is to put his life back together — and to find the man who crippled his sister and killed her boyfriend.

But it’s not long before Nick finds himself in trouble with the police again.

Nick goes to meet his boss at home. But he finds him with his head cut off. And now Nick’s the prime suspect.

AN UTTERLY GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED.

[GA Russell]

Mahatma of Mayhem

by Robert Leslie Bellem

(and others)

$1.99

https://www.radioarchives.com/Thrill...48_p/re804.htm