FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Surfeit of Suspects is about 3/4 of the way through the very long Inspector Littlejohn series by George Bellairs. It is $1.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched (and coupon/VIPable) at Kobo.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Surfeit-Suspe...dp/B07S41Z7V3/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/surfeit-of-suspects

Spoiler:

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"At 8 o'clock in the evening on the 8th of November, there was a terrific explosion in Green Lane, Evingden."

The offices of the Excelsior Joinery Company have been blown to smithereens; three of the company directors are found dead amongst the rubble, and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of an ignited gas leak is dismissed and the presence of dynamite revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene.

But beneath the sleepy veneer of Evingden lies a hotbed of deep-rooted grievances. The new subject of the town's talk, Littlejohn's investigation is soon confounded by an impressive cast of suspicious persons, each concealing their own axe to grind.

First published in 1964, Bellairs' novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequences revels in the abundant possible solutions to its central, explosive crime as a masterpiece of misdirection.

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A couple of titles I spotted in the soon-ending US Kindle Monthly deals for February. (Luckily it's leap year .)

Smarty Bones is the 13th in the very cozy, but fun IMO, Sarah Booth Delaney series by Carolyn Haines, $2.99: https://www.amazon.com/Smarty-Bones-...dp/B00B22ASMU/

Murder in Disguise is the fourth in the Roaring Twenties series by Mary Miley, $2.99: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Disgui...dp/B073QBJSKP/

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Again free at both Kindle US and UK. US link below is still good.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazing-Mr-...dp/B07BN36J9Q/

Originally Posted by sufue

A few of the titles in the Blackshirt series by Roderic Jeffries, writing as Roderic Graeme, featuring a character originally created by his father, have been briefly available for free from time to time. Here is another one, The Amazing Mr. Blackshirt, which is the fifth in the series.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Mr-Bl...dp/B07BN36J9Q/

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A couple more Helen MacInnes books are part of the US Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99 each, matched at Kobo US.

North from Rome
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BKIYJDK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/north-from-rome

Rest and Be Thankful
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F1W07VY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rest-and-be-thankful-1

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For once I'm looking at some of the Kindle monthly deals before the end of the month. Woo-hoo!

In the UK, some titles in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear, all at £1.49. Most/all are repeats, so check carefully before you buy...

Journey to Munich, #12: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01BOGSD9I/

To Die but Once, #14: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075G4KLR1/

Among the Mad, #6: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009R6ACEM/

Pardonable Lies, #3: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AZZTP4M/

Messenger of Truth, #4: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AZZTP2O/

The Mapping of Love and Death, #7: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0077F5W3G/

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Several titles in Edward Marston's Railway Detective series, all at £1.79, unless otherwise indicated. Again most/all are repeats.

The Circus Train Conspiracy, #14, £1.49: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XXVTSD3/

The Excursion Train, #2: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006WB7MC0/

Railway to the Grave, #7: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006WB7GP8/

Timetable of Death, #12: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TCZP73O/

The Railway Viaduct, #3: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006WB7MXO/

Signal for Vengeance, #13: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01E5LHD7C/

And in Marston's Home Front Detective series, #8, The Unseen Hand: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07G4L4VR8/

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Hard Frost is the fourth book in R D Wingfield's Jack Frost series at £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00413PJ44/

And the second in the prequel series written by James Henry, Fatal Frost, also at £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0080K3QQ2/

And in the prequel series, continued by Danny Miller, A Lethal Frost, #5, also £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lethal-Fros...dp/B0779M6QHB/

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A couple of novellas in Mick Herron's Slough House series...

The Catch, £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZK8WPY2/

The List, £1.49: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073B77VY6/

And a non-series title, Noboby Walks, £0.99:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KTS4YOK/

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Three titles in the Inspector Robinson series by Peter Robinson are £0.99 each.

Wednesday's Child, #6: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003GK224I/

Dry Bones that Dream, #7: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003GK21WG/

Innocent Graves, #8: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003GK21OY/

And the first title in the series, Gallows View, has been at £0.99 for several years, if you want to give it a try: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003DWC6MC/

All repeats on sale...

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The Listener by Robert McCammon is $1.99 at Amazon US

1934. Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities.

In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. Joining together they leave their small time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans.

In a different part of town, Curtis Mayhew, a young black man who works as a redcap for the Union Railroad Station, has a reputation for mending quarrels and misunderstandings among his friends. What those friends don't know is that Curtis has a special talent for listening... and he can sometimes hear things that aren't spoken aloud.

One day, Curtis Mayhew's special talent allows him to overhear a child's cry for help (THIS MAN IN THE CAR HE'S GOT A GUN), which draws him into the dangerous world of Partlow and LaFrance.

This gritty depression-era crime thriller is a complex tale enriched by powerfully observed social commentary and hints of the supernatural, and it represents Robert McCammon writing at the very top of his game.

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A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger $0.99 at Amazon US.

In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose, and The Crimson Petal and the White.

London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers--including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford--England's young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. Songs are heard across London--catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England's kings--and among the book's predictions is Richard's assassination. Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a "burnable book," a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low. Gower discovers that the book and incriminating evidence about its author have fallen into the unwitting hands of innocents, who will be drawn into a labyrinthine conspiracy that reaches from the king's court to London's slums and stews--and potentially implicates his own son. As the intrigue deepens, it becomes clear that Gower, a man with secrets of his own, may be the last hope to save a king from a terrible fate.

Medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger draws on his vast knowledge of the period to add colorful, authentic detail--on everything from poetry and bookbinding to court intrigues and brothels--to this highly entertaining and brilliantly constructed epic literary mystery that brings medieval England gloriously to life.

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Some singletons, all £0.99 unless otherwise indicated...

A Room Full of Bones, #4 in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Room-Full-B...dp/B006PI6EBK/

The Legacy, #1 in the Children's House series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KTS4XRS/

The Silver Pigs, #1 in the Falco series by Lindsey Davis: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silver-Pigs...dp/B004NBZFT8/

Closed Casket, by Sophie Hannah, #2 in the estate-authorized continuation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01BJ12PEM/

A is for Alibi. #1 (obviously) in the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alibi-Kinse...dp/B004P1JF2E/

The Snack Thief, #3 in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snack-Thief...dp/B004GKMHKG/

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A couple of titles in the Cole/Pike series by Robert Crais, £0.99 each...

Sunset Express, #6: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunset-Expr...dp/B004GHN3J8/

L.A. Requiem, #8: https://www.amazon.co.uk/L-Requiem-C...dp/B004GHN3KW/

And the first title in the series, The Monkey's Raincoat, has been at £0.99 for more than a year, if you like to start with the first in a series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004H4XBHY/

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Some Robert B Parker titles/continuation titles, all £0.99, all repeats on sale

Stone Cold, fourth in the Jesse Stone series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Cold-...dp/B00D0UXYAU/

Slow Burn, #45 in the Spenser series, as continued by Ace Atkins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Park...dp/B01N75D3J0/

Old Black Magic, also in the Spenser series as continued by Ace Atkins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Park...dp/B07FY4CV3C/

Kickback, #44 in the Spenser series, as continued by Ace Atkins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Park...dp/B01AI5F3YE/

The Hangman's Sonnet, in the Jesse Stone series as continued by Reed Farrel Coleman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Park...dp/B076H2NVK4/

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And a few more singletons, all £0.99 unless otherwise indicated...

Robicheaux, next to most recent (2018) in the Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robicheaux-...dp/B07572K5B3/

A Talent for Murder, first in Andrew Wilson's series featuring Agatha Christie as the protagonist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Talent-Murd...dp/B01FR8HS22/

Death in Shetland Waters, #6 in the Shetland series by Marsali Taylor, £1.49: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Shetl...dp/B07529Y1XY/

The Beekeeper's Apprentice, first in Laurie R King's Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beekeepers-...dp/B006WB7JOG/

Prima Facie, a novella in by Ruth Downie's excellent IMO Gaius Petreius Ruso/Tilla series (which I am happy to see since there haven't been any new titles in a while): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prima-Facie...dp/B07SH693ZW/

Died in the Wool, about 1/3 of the way through the Inspector Alleyn series by Ngaio Marsh: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Died-Wool-N...dp/B003062GOE/

Bones Never Lie, #17 in the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bones-Never...dp/B00I3DNTTU/

Service of All the Dead, Inspector Morse #4, by Colin Dexter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Service-Dea...dp/B003GK212Q/

Never Go Back, third in Robert Goddard's Harry Barnett series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Go-Ba...dp/B0031RS72W/

Murder in Venice, first in the Venice series by Maria Luisa Minarelli (I had a chance to read an ARC of this and liked it): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Veni...dp/B07PQQQX4X/