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Police is the tenth Harry Hole title by Jo Nesbo. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CU8QBBC
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CU8QBBC

Spoiler:

An edge-of-your seat Harry Hole page-turner you won't be able to put down.

'Nesbo is several steps ahead of you in this endlessly twisting, multi-layered thriller' Sun

The police urgently need Harry Hole.

A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.

But this time, Harry can't help anyone.

For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone.

Least of all himself.

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A bunch of JD Robb's "In Death" books have dropped to £2.99 at Kindle UK. (And one to £0.99) Most of these are fairly recent price drops, but a couple are older or semi-perm at £2.99. This is a bit much IMO, especially for the older backlist ones, but still a bargain off the "normal" UK price of £4.99. And way better than the "normal" US price of $8.99-ish. So if you like this series, here you go...

Naked In Death, #1 (also $2.99 in the US)
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003MQM7B4
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003MQM7B4
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000P2A47M
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000P2A47M

Glory in Death, #2
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003O86FL8
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003O86FL8

Rapture in Death, #4
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003LPULX2
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003LPULX2

Innocent in Death, #24
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TZ3DBW
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TZ3DBW

Salvation in Death, #27
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TXZTLG
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TXZTLG

Fantasy in Death, #30
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0039ZBQ2Y
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0039ZBQ2Y

Calculated in Death, #36
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091LLFXK
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091LLFXK

Abandoned in Death, #54, £0.99
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B095LJ1WNR
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B095LJ1WNR

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Malice by Keigo Higashino is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.

At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka.

As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.

Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novel in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.

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Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Removed and republished - same text

James Joyce Ulysses not Josephine Tey

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/COMPLETE-...dp/B0BMNVR5DT/

Removed and republished 30 Nov still James Joyce Ulysses not Josephine Tey

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BNQWBTV5/

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The Novice's Tale is $1.99 in the US right now. And most of the rest of the series seems to have dropped a bit in price, mostly to $4.99 which is too high IMO for old backlist, but not the $7.99 to $8.99 I was remembering. And The Novice's Tale is also only £0.99 at Kindle UK, where some of the other books in the series are in the £2 - £4 range.

The links below are still good for the US, and here's for the UK:

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005VGO4JG
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005VGO4JG

Originally Posted by sufue

I really really like Margaret Frazer's Dame Frevisse series, and I'm also pretty fond of her Joliffe series. Unfortunately titles in either series don't go on sale very often - sigh! Now, however, the first title in each series is on sale for $3.99 each. Not a great sale price, and if you like them, the rest may be sort of pricey. But still, both are good series, especially the Dame Frevisse ones...

The Novice's Tale, Dame Frevisse #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFYENF4
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00AFYENF4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-novice-s-tale

{edited other book}

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Sorry. Meant to post this in fiction. Even though it is about a killer and a cop, I don't think it is a thriller.

The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan's The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West.

At the center of this searing, fever dream of a novel are two men—a killer awaiting trial, and a troubled young deputy—sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of 77, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriff's department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload's arrest. With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty, Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together two haunted souls by the secrets they share, and by the rugged country that keeps them.

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Dead Lions is £0.99 at Kindle UK today as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00X61N2W8
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00X61N2W8

Originally Posted by sufue

Dead Lions is the second in the much nominated/awarded Slough House series by Mick Herron. I hadn't really noticed this series before (although the first in the series, Slow Horses, must have been free or really really cheap before since I have it) - it looks sort of interesting. Anyway, Horses has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Lions-Sl...dp/B008ADFIKQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dead-lions

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Hostage by Robert Crais is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I haven't read the book, but really enjoyed the movie.

An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun.

The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.’s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza’s wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all.

Hostage is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis, multistranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility.

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The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers has holiday themed short stories by 18 (eighteen!) authors, including lots that I recognize: Helene Tursten, Mick Herron, Martin Limón, Timothy Hallinan, Teresa Dovalpage, Mette Ivie Harrison, Colin Cotterill, Ed Lin, Stuart Neville, Tod Goldberg, Henry Chang, James R. Benn, Lene Kaaberbøl/Agnete Friis, Sujata Massey, Gary Corby, Cara Black, Stephanie Barron and Peter Lovesey (who also edited and did a foreward). It has dropped to $1.99 in the US. Guess it's the season for murder...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AQNYP5Q
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01AQNYP5Q
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ristmas-capers

Spoiler:

Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more.

This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes’s one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess of Wilborough’s stolen diamonds. These and other adventures in this delectable volume will whisk readers away to Christmases around the globe, from a Korean War POW camp to a Copenhagen refugee squat, from a palatial hotel in 1920s Bombay to a crumbling mansion in Havana.

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And Bad Actors is now $2.99 in the US, as part of today's Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093YQYGQ7
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B093YQYGQ7
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bad-actors

Originally Posted by sufue

Bad Actors is the eighth and most recent (2022) in Mick Herron's Slough House series. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK today.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09CKVV78X
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09CKVV78X

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From the Shadows is the seventeenth and most recent (2022) in James R Benn's Billy Boyle WWII series. I had kind of lost track of the series, since the books don't often go on sale in e-book, but had an ARC of the previous book (Road of Bones) last year, and liked it as much as I remembered liking the early ones. Benn does a really nice job of both background and mystery, IMO. From the Shadows is $2.99 right now in the US and £1.48 in the UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N6JDY5Y
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09N6JDY5Y
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/from-the-shadows-43
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09N6JDY5Y
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09N6JDY5Y

Spoiler:

In southern France in 1944, Captain Billy Boyle works with French Resistance fighters to protect a Royal Navy Commander, uncovering a wide web of subterfuge and betrayal in the process.

Southern France, 1944: What should be a simple assignment with a Special Operations Executive officer gets complicated quickly as Billy navigates the tensions between Resistance groups in the process of gathering information on Vichy officials and other collaborators who escaped with the retreating Germans. Unexpectedly, the SOE officer has many enemies in the Resistance, linked to the failed Vercors uprising. Diana Seaton, Billy’s wartime lover, crosses paths with him as she and legendary SOE agent Christine Granville embark on a humanitarian mission on behalf of those killed while helping the SOE.

The search for a witness to a deadly explosion leads Billy to the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit made up of Nisei soldiers that became the most highly decorated unit in the history of the US Army.

With sacrifice and betrayal afoot, Billy doesn’t know who he can trust, or how close to death this case may bring him.

If you want to read my review of Road of Bones, the link to my blog is in my signature...

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Night Passage is $1.99 again in the US right now, and it's also long-term-ish at £0.99 at Kindle UK. The links below are still good for the US, and here's for the UK:

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009T99S0G

Originally Posted by sufue

Night Passage is the first in the Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Passage...dp/B005F4CCYS/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/night-passage-1

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Dead to the World is £2.99 at Kindle UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0037472KM
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0037472KM

Originally Posted by sufue

Dead to the World is the fourth in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. There was an omnibus of several early titles in this series on sale in the UK a long time ago, so if you travel, check carefully before you buy...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-World-So...dp/B000O76OOU/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ackhouse-novel

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And Deadlocked is also £2.99 at Kindle UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007N6SUTC
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007N6SUTC

Originally Posted by sufue

Deadlocked is the 12th and next-to-most-recent (2013) in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US as part of the Daily Deal and is matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Deadlocked-So...dp/B0072NZZGM/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Deadlocked-...dp/B0072NZZGM/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ackhouse-novel

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Aftermath is £0.99 in the UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003DWC6NQ
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003DWC6NQ

Originally Posted by sufue

Aftermath is the 12th in the Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Ins...dp/B000FC10K2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/aftermath-10