FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Critteranne]

Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel by S. A. Cosby is just $2.99 today. This one has gotten great reviews!

[kyrilson]

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper by Travis McGee is on sale for $2.99. These rarely go on sale, so snap it up while you can.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B009FKXUNK

[ZodWallop]

Confessions by Kanae Minato is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.

But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge.

Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.

[sufue]

The Elephants of Norwich is the eleventh in Edward Marston's Domesday Book series. It has dropped to £1.90 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093PBBWLJ
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093PBBWLJ

Spoiler:

It is the juiciest piece of gossip the citizens of Norwich have heard for a long time. The ruthless Richard de Fontenel is himself the victim of robbery. In addition to two priceless golden elephants that he was using to lure the beautiful Adelaide into marriage, his steward Hermer is also missing. Onto the scene arrive soldier Ralph Delchard and lawyer Gervase Bret who are meant to adjudicate on a land dispute, but they also become involved in the hunt for the thief. But is Hermer the steward really missing or has something altogether more sinister happened?

[Critteranne]

One by One by Ruth Ware is $4.99 today. (This is higher than the usual sales, but it's a good price for one of her books.)

[sufue]

A Small Town in Germany is £0.99 again, again as part of Amazon UK's Daily Deal. @maddz's original link is still good.

Note that in Amazon's sometimes amazing genre choices, this is currently the #1 Best Seller in "Call Centre Management" . (See thumbnail below...)

Originally Posted by maddz

John Le Carré A Small Town in Germany is 99p in today's Amazon.co.uk Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Germa...5110873&sr=1-2

[sufue]

Kindle US is having a "Limited-time deal: Mystery and Thrillers for $3.99 or less on Kindle" sale that expires on 6 Feb 2022. As usual, there's a fair number of Amazon-published books (some of which can be quite good, but do tend to go on sale a lot), and some of the usual culprits from Open Road as well. But there are a few other interesting (to me, at least, YMMV) titles, including:

• Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi, $2.99
• Paul Levine, Shattered Justice, an omnibus containing: Solomon vs. Lord, The Deep Blue Alibi, To Speak for the Dead, and Illegal, $1.49
• Anne Hillerman, The Tale Teller, Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito #23, $2.99
• Anna Lee Huber, Murder Most Fair, Verity Kent #5, $2.99
• Charles Todd, A Divided Loyalty, Inspector Ian Rutledge #22, $2.99
• JA Jance, Field of Bones, Joanna Brady #18, $2.99
• Marcia Muller, Ice and Stone, Sharon McCone #35 (and most recent), $2.99
• Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad, Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes #15, $2.99

Also, when I checked, a number of the titles are price-matched at Kobo. (Obviously not the Amazon-published ones, but a fair number of the others...)

Here's a link to the sale pages: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-t...58&ref=sr_pg_1

[sufue]

If you haven't yet tried the spin-off Flavia Albia series by Lindsey Davis, here's a not-very-imaginatively titled omnibus of the first three books, The Flavia Albia Collection 1-3, on sale at Kindle UK for £0.99. The included titles are: Ides of April, Enemies at Home, and Deadly Election. Although I'm sometimes kind of "meh" about spin-off series, I like this one as much as Davis' original Falco series.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082D3XZGV
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082D3XZGV

[sufue]

A Clubbable Woman is the first in Reginald Hill's Dalziel/Pascoe series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P2C9GZX
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07P2C9GZX

Spoiler:

Reginald Hill “raised the classical British mystery to new heights” when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe (The New York Times Book Review). Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made them “the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction” (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as ebooks.

Mary Connon froze out her husband, Sam, long ago. She likes the attention of other men—like the fellow members of Sam’s rugby club. Naturally, when she’s found dead in her sitting room with a hole in her head, Sam is a suspect. If only he hadn’t suffered a dizzying scrum injury that’s left everything a blur. He isn’t sure that he didn’t kill her. But Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, Peter Pascoe, are looking outside the unhappy home. Because it seems everyone within spitting distance of the suburban femme fatale—from prying neighbors to spurned lovers to jealous wives—wanted Mary dead. As the field of play expands, so do the motives...

A Clubbable Woman is the 1st book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

[sufue]

Edward Marston has a bunch of titles on sale at Kindle UK right now.

Murder on the Lusitania, Ocean Liner #1, £0.99
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09B9D17W8
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09B9D17W8

The Lions of the North, Domesday #4, £1.49
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08514B7CZ
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08514B7CZ

The Foxes of Warwick, Domesday #9, £1.79
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP42MMZ
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP42MMZ

The Stationmaster's Farewell, Railway Detective #9, £1.79
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007XF8GM4
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007XF8GM4

Points of Danger, Railway Detective #16, £1.79
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079SWNSRR
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079SWNSRR

Fear on the Phantom Special, Railway Detective #17, £1.79
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RD4G8GV
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RD4G8GV

[sufue]

Now £0.99 at Kindle UK...
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B098CZQGPP
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B098CZQGPP

Originally Posted by sufue

The Long Way Home is the 10th in the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. This is probably the most nominated/awarded series I've seen in SYKM - every title but one (and the most recent, which is too new for awards yet) has multiple nominations/awards. I like this series too <grin>. Home has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US only, at least for now.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Home...dp/B00HY09X5W/

[sufue]

Now £0.99 in the UK...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003MQM7EQ
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003MQM7EQ

Originally Posted by sufue

Born in Death is the 23rd in JD Robb's In Death series, or at least that's what the Amazon blurb says. And I'm going with it, because I don't feel like counting at SYKM . It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PDYVSE/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000PDYVSE/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/born-in-death-1

[sufue]

If you waited, you're now rewarded...

A Comedy of Terrors is now £0.99 at Kindle UK. The links are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

A Comedy of Terrors is the ninth and most recent (earlier this year) in the Flavia Albia series by Lindsey Davis. It has dropped to £4.99 at Kindle UK, which is still a little pricey for me, but is a lot better than the £9.99/$14.99 it has been since publication in the UK/US. Still, if you want to read it, but you are 289th on the waiting list at your local library, this might work for you!

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KRTXZHC
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KRTXZHC

[sufue]

The Wedding Guest is a fairly recent (2019) title in Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series. It's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CLT4CN1
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CLT4CN1

Spoiler:

An uninvited guest. A missing identity. A trail of deadly secrets.

When a horrified bridesmaid finds the body of a young woman at a wedding reception, it makes the bride and groom’s choice of a Saints and Sinners theme all the more macabre.

There are no means of identification and nobody knows the victim.

The bride is convinced someone is trying to sabotage her big day. The groom is sure it’s a dreadful mistake.

It’s up to brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis to uncover the truth. They have a hundred guests to question, and a strong suspicion that the motive for murder is personal…

The party’s over.
AND THE HUNT FOR THE KILLER IS ON.

[sufue]

Shadows In Bronze is the second of Lindsey Davis's Marco Didius Falco books. (Back from well before she ran out of metals to put in the titles...)

It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK..
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004NBZG1U
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004NBZG1U

Spoiler:

LOVE, DEATH AND POLITICS UNDER VESUVIUS

Rome, AD 71: Against his better judgement, Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian, then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius. It's an opportunity to forget his doomed romance with the beautiful and bright Helena Justina.

He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday - they have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup, now sunning themselves in luxurious villas and on fancy yachts.

Nor does the idyllic seaside location help matters with Helena. The deeper he probes, the more it seems she is inextricably connected to the elite plotters, in ways that the smitten Falco cannot bear to contemplate ...