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Originally Posted by sufue

Unfortunately there are only a couple more hours left for this - apologies, I've been swamped at work....

A Chateau Under Siege is the sixteenth and most recent in the Bruno/Dordogne series by Martin Walker. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK right now, as part of today's Daily Deal, matched at Kobo UK.

Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-chateau-under-siege

It's still showing for £0.99 at Kobo for me, and for €0.99 at Amazon DE.

https://www.amazon.de/Chateau-Under-.../dp/B0BBLTR6LG

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A World of Curiosities is the most recent (2022) in Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series, which just keeps winning/being nominated for awards. (Per SYKM, this one won the 2022 Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel, and also was a finalist for a couple of others.) It's £0.99 in the UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Z616T5L
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-w...-curiosities-3

Spoiler:

It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.

But something has.

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines.

But to what end?

Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?

As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 150-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.

As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.

In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home.

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The Three Kings of Cologne is on sale again in the US for $1.99, and it's also on sale this time for £1.99 at Kindle UK. The links below are still good in the US, and here's the Kindle UK link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FJ3641W

And it's still discountable at Kobo US as well...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Three Kings of Cologne is the 16th in the Roger the Chapman series by Kate Sedley. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Kings-C...dp/B00FJ3641W/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/three-kings-of-cologne

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The Bone Track is the third in the Alexa Glock series by Sara E. Johnson. I had an ARC of this a while back and really really liked the forensics, and also the setting, although I found some of the personal relationships a bit angsty for my own taste. I had no idea about New Zealand's "Great Walks", and now I want to visit and go hiking, although perhaps on some trails a bit less structured than the Milford Track . The Bone Track is on sale right now for $1.99 in the US (discountable at Kobo) and £1.63 at Kindle UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096LB298Q
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bone-track
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B096LB298Q

Spoiler:

A nature trek turns dangerous when the wilderness gives up its bones...

New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. Their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start, though, when she must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons—most likely M?ori tribespeople—whose graves have been unearthed by highway construction. Before she opens the first casket, a M?ori elder gives her a dire warning: "The viewing of bones can unleash misfortune to the living. Or worse."

Though Alexa dismisses his words as superstitious, they soon come back to haunt her as the idyllic hike takes a sinister turn. First, Charlie is aloof and resentful of the time Alexa has spent at work. Then a rock avalanche nearly carries her away as it reveals the skeletal remains of someone who has clearly been stabbed to death. When a fellow hiker goes missing and is later found dead, Alexa has all she can do to focus on the science as she investigates two murders, while trying not to become the third victim.

Note: if you want to read my full review, the link to my blog is in my signature...

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A few years later, The Body in the Gazebo is $1.99 again in the US. The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Body in the Gazebo is the 19th in the Faith Fairchild series by Katherine Hall Page. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Gazebo-F...dp/B004HD61FE/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-body-in-the-gazebo

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Jigsaw is about halfway through Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. It's on sale right now at Kindle US for $0.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WZZRB0

Spoiler:

Detectives Brown and Carella answer a call to a double homicide. One guy broke in and another defended himself and now they both are dead. The case seems open and shut. Except for one piece of evidence: a torn picture in one of the dead men’s hands. When insurance investigator Irving Krutch turns up at the squadroom with another piece of the photograph, Brown and Carella realize their tidy little case isn’t so tidy after all. In fact it leads back to a six-year-old bank robbery that left the four robbers dead and $750,000 missing. Now they must search for the next missing piece of the picture…

A fascinating, intense crime thriller, Jigsaw is bestselling author Ed McBain at his finest. With relentless pace and genius plotting, this installment of the 87th Precinct series weaves an unforgettable tale of greed and murder.