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[sufue]

Maggie Dove's Detective Agency is the second title in the (wait-for-it...) Maggie Dove series by Susan Breen. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Maggie-Doves-...dp/B01AERZS0A/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mag...tective-agency

Spoiler:

As Susan Breen’s compelling cozy mystery series continues, Maggie Dove’s budding detective agency has given her a new lease on life. Only one thing stands in the way of success: her clients—or lack of them.

After catching the killer who shook her small Hudson River town, former Sunday School teacher Maggie Dove stumbled onto an exciting new career and found a way to take her mind off her own tragic past. Now, despite her best efforts to promote the agency, Maggie can’t seem to land any new cases—until Racine Stern, one of the village’s wealthiest residents, offers her a thousand dollars to convince her “evil” sister, Domino, to stay out of town.

While Maggie’s business partner thinks she’s crazy for turning down a potential client, she doesn’t want her agency to get a reputation for accommodating bizarre requests. However, Maggie is soon caught up in the family drama anyway. Racine may fear for her life—and her inheritance—but it’s Domino who takes the fall when she plunges to her death from a tower at Stern Manor. Was it an accident or something more sinister? Maggie’s investigation will test her faith—and her ability to survive.

[sufue]

A box set of all five titles in the Black Stiletto series, The Black Stiletto: The Complete Saga by Raymond Benson, has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable).

Titles are:

• The Black Stiletto
• The Black Stiletto:Black&White
• The Black Stiletto: Stars&Stripes
• The Black Stiletto: Secrets&Lies
• The Black Stiletto:Endings&Beginnings

All of these have been on sale at various times in the past, so check carefully.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Stilett...dp/B011JB6UP2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...omplete-saga-1

Spoiler:

This USA Today and New York Times best-selling five-book saga tells the entire amazing story of Judy Cooper, the famed Black Stiletto of vigilante fame. The story is told by Martin Talbot, the Stiletto’s son, in the words of the Stiletto herself through her diaries. Martin does not discover these diaries until his mother, suffering from Alzheimer Disease, is confined to a nursing home. Imagine his utter shock when he realizes that his mother’s diaries—and other revealing discoveries—bring the Black Stiletto’s—his mother’s—past into the present.

This awe-inspiring five-book saga takes the reader through the parallel lives of Judy today and the young masked crime stopper from the 1950’s and ’60’s. From New York to Los Angeles to Texas, Judy—the Stiletto—is a hero to the public, but a hunted enemy of law enforcement and criminals, including the Mafia. As she relentlessly fights for justice, her life is in constant danger. And that danger returns to the present to threaten Martin, his daughter, and Judy, herself.

The Black Stiletto Saga covers the entire story. The old Judy, the young Judy, and the Black Stiletto. All five books in one package: The Black Stiletto, The Black Stiletto:Black&White, The Black Stiletto; Stars&Stripes, The Black Stiletto: Secrets&Lies, and The Black Stiletto:Endings&Beginnings.

[sufue]

Bruno, Chief of Police is the first in the excellent (IMO) Bruno series by Martin Walker. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Bruno-Chief-P...dp/B002361NGY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bru...ef-of-police-2

Spoiler:

Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France. He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it. But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes all that. Now Bruno must balance his beloved routines—living in his restored shepherd’s cottage, shopping at the local market, drinking wine, strolling the countryside—with a politically delicate investigation. He’s paired with a young policewoman from Paris and the two suspect anti-immigrant militants. As they learn more about the dead man’s past, Bruno’s suspicions turn toward a more complex motive.

This edition includes an excerpt from Martin Walker's The Devil's Cave.

Bonus material! Martin Walker is often asked by his readers for vacation recommendations in the area where his best-selling series is set. In "A Perfect Weekend in Perigord," Walker shares his itinerary for an ideal vacation in this picturesque region.

[sufue]

The Cat Who Played Post Office is the 6th in the Cat Who... series by Lilian Jackson Braun. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Played-Po...dp/B000OCXJ7U/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-post-office-1

Spoiler:

Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to being fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwilleran samples the lifestyles of the rich and famous by hiring a staff of eccentric servants. A missing housemaid and a shocking murder show Qwilleran the unsavory side of the upper crust. But soon it's Koko's purr-fect propensity for clues amid the caviar and champagne that gives Qwilleran pause to evaluate the most unlikely suspects...before his taste for the good life turns into his last meal.

[sufue]

The Alpine Advocate is the first in Mary Daheim's alphabetically ordered Alpine Advocate/Emma Lord series. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Alpine-Advoca...dp/B003VS0NBY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/alpine-advocate

Spoiler:

The debut of the Emma Lord murder mystery series.

After a year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. What she really needs for her paper, though, is a big story. And she gets it--when handsome Mark Doukas, grandson of rich, old Neeny Doukas is murdered. Emma discovers that trying to get straight answers out of Neeny and his thin-lipped son is like poking a nest of sleeping rattlesnakes. What begins with an innocent story about the murdered man, ends with Emma conducting the most interesting, and probably the last, interview of her career from the wrong end of a .38....

[sufue]

Dark Spirits is the 7th (blurb) or 8th (SYKM) in one of my favorite series, the Daisy Gumm Majesty series by Alice Duncan. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Spirits-...dp/B00LLRQCAS/

Spoiler:

The Ku Klux Klan has opened a chapter in Daisy Gumm Majesty's home town of Pasadena, California. Worse, Klan members are harassing Joseph Jackson, the gatekeeper for Daisy's best client, Mrs. Pinkerton.

When Mrs. Pinkerton also becomes a target of vicious pranks, Daisy tries to get Detective Sam Rotondo, her new leading man, involved.

Sam isn't thrilled. Worse, the bodies are piling up, and now he needs Daisy's help speaking to some of the Klan's victims.

That makes Daisy a target, forcing Sam to redouble his efforts and keep Daisy from doing in the Klan with a zinc bucket and a baseball bat.

PRAISE for THE DAISY GUMM MAJESTY MYSTERIES

"Well plotted with a band of whimsical characters and genuine humor... as comforting as a warm mug of cocoa on a blustery day." ~Diane Morasco, RT Book Reviews

"Cozy fans will find [Daisy's] simple, sweet, budding relationship with Sam refreshingly free of artifice." ~Publishers Weekly

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sufue

A box set of all five titles in the Black Stiletto series, The Black Stiletto: The Complete Saga by Raymond Benson, has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable).

Titles are:

• The Black Stiletto
• The Black Stiletto:Black&White
• The Black Stiletto: Stars&Stripes
• The Black Stiletto: Secrets&Lies
• The Black Stiletto:Endings&Beginnings

All of these have been on sale at various times in the past, so check carefully.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Stilett...dp/B011JB6UP2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...omplete-saga-1

Thanks for that. Any story described as a saga is instantly suspect to me. But the book does sound promising, even if I think I can already psychically predict the ending. "... and a new Black Stiletto is born!"

[GA Russell]

The Brass Cupcake - John D. MacDonald - 99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Brass-Cupcake...dp/B00SG3MU42/

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Brass Cupcake - John D. MacDonald - 99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Brass-Cupcake...dp/B00SG3MU42/

This was his very first published novel, I believe, published as a Gold Medal Original in 1950[?]. A great read!

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

This was his very first published novel, I believe, published as a Gold Medal Original in 1950[?]. A great read!

99p in UK (different publisher)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brass-Cupca...dp/B00GXQP68Q/

[Little.Egret]

Free


The Case of Sir Adam Braid: A Golden Age Mystery by Molly Thynne

Outrageous Fortune: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Pursuit of a Parcel: An Ernest Lamb Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Music Tells All: A Bobby Owen Mystery by E.R. Punshon


The Patricia Wentworth's are probably not available in the US

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...r=dean+street*

[Kieran Seymour]

Two more of Michael Avallone's Ed Noon books are currently free at Amazon. The first, I think, is new, the second is definitely a repeat.

(09) The Voodoo Murders

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Spoiler:

"The hand was quicker than the private eye. Steel gleamed in his fingers magically and a lightning bolt left his brown hands. It flashed across twenty feet and pinned my sleeve to the wall, knocking the gun out of my hand."
--Ed Noon, Private Eye

A voodoo cult masterminded by the fantastic Count Calypso is trying to take over the world and Ed Noon is the only private eye between Manhattan and Port-au-Prince who can stop him.

Ed Noon's Calypso caper: a voodoo cult masterminded by the fantastic Count Calypso trying to take over the world, and Noon is catapulted into the weirdest case of his career. The savage deep-freeze murder of a close friend turns the case personal, and makes it a duel to the death with the Count. This one starts with a threat in Manhattan and ends with human sacrifice in Port-au-Prince. This story also features the first appearance of would-be actress Peg Temple.

(11) The Living Bomb

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Spoiler:

"Great life. Guns, girls and trouble. All kinds of trouble. From getting hit on the
head to being kidnapped in broad daylight."--Ed Noon, Private Eye

Ed Noon's career takes a sharp turn when he is hired by the President of the United States to find America's number one nuclear scientist, who has mysteriously disappeared, and with him, the designs for America's most powerful nuclear super-weapon.

Homer Conroy, America's number one nuclear scientist, mysteriously disappears, and with him the secret formula for the biggest bomb, the Cobalt. A concerned President assigns Noon to find Conroy, and once more Noon is thrust among a cast of international terrorists and troublemakers: a giant named Mr. Colombo, a silky assassin named X. X. St. John, a sex queen scientist, Ilona Dorn. The case takes Non from the Potomac to the U.N. Building. Peg Temple, now a movie star, walks back into Noon's life.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Two more of Michael Avallone's Ed Noon books are currently free at Amazon. The first, I think, is new, the second is definitely a repeat.

(09) The Voodoo Murders

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Spoiler:

"The hand was quicker than the private eye. Steel gleamed in his fingers magically and a lightning bolt left his brown hands. It flashed across twenty feet and pinned my sleeve to the wall, knocking the gun out of my hand."
--Ed Noon, Private Eye

A voodoo cult masterminded by the fantastic Count Calypso is trying to take over the world and Ed Noon is the only private eye between Manhattan and Port-au-Prince who can stop him.

Ed Noon's Calypso caper: a voodoo cult masterminded by the fantastic Count Calypso trying to take over the world, and Noon is catapulted into the weirdest case of his career. The savage deep-freeze murder of a close friend turns the case personal, and makes it a duel to the death with the Count. This one starts with a threat in Manhattan and ends with human sacrifice in Port-au-Prince. This story also features the first appearance of would-be actress Peg Temple.

(11) The Living Bomb

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Spoiler:

"Great life. Guns, girls and trouble. All kinds of trouble. From getting hit on the
head to being kidnapped in broad daylight."--Ed Noon, Private Eye

Ed Noon's career takes a sharp turn when he is hired by the President of the United States to find America's number one nuclear scientist, who has mysteriously disappeared, and with him, the designs for America's most powerful nuclear super-weapon.

Homer Conroy, America's number one nuclear scientist, mysteriously disappears, and with him the secret formula for the biggest bomb, the Cobalt. A concerned President assigns Noon to find Conroy, and once more Noon is thrust among a cast of international terrorists and troublemakers: a giant named Mr. Colombo, a silky assassin named X. X. St. John, a sex queen scientist, Ilona Dorn. The case takes Non from the Potomac to the U.N. Building. Peg Temple, now a movie star, walks back into Noon's life.

I have both of them, purchased (or free?) back in 2013.

HOWEVER, these are wonderfully zany, and I highly recommend them.

THANK YOU!

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Deadly Secrets by David Hodges

Spoiler:

You just can’t keep a good woman down…

Detective Sergeant Kate Lewis once again finds herself up to her neck in dead bodies and suspects.

Not only that, but feisty Kate believes that her own number is up when she finds herself staring at the wrong end of a double-barrelled shotgun on a sodden stretch of Somerset marshland.

She is on the trail of villain Lenny Stallard who has just broken out of the prison where he was serving time for the murder of the elderly wife of Colonel Stephen Slater during a robbery at their country residence near Bridgwater.

Revenge appears to be the motive and for DS Lewis’s superiors it is a cut-and-dried case as the corpses of trial witnesses begins to mount up.

But it’s all a bit too convenient for a smart cop like DS Lewis who, despite being taken off the case and given a bit of mentoring of a trainee to do instead, is determined to continue.

Besides, it’s personal after her hubby and crime-solving partner is attacked – twice – by the number one suspect.

How much does a muck-raking local journalist know that might help DS Lewis get to really what is going on?

And how is it, that the old Colonel was found dead in a muddy bird-watching spot with perfectly clean shoes?

After all the usual – and not so usual – suspects are systematically eliminated, DS Lewis finally stumbles on the truth.

But the twists are not over yet…

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Secr...ndeavour+press


US
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Secret...ndeavour+press


Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Deadly-Sec...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Deadly-Secrets...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - The Private Face of Murder by John Bonnett

Spoiler:

People have many faces…

And one that is seen by no one except themselves.

In the Spanish town of Caltrava, a group of ex-pats have created their own close-knit community.

In moving to a hotter country, the Brits are hoping to find a more relaxing way of living.

But then – disaster strikes when the beautiful Linda Huntingdon is killed in a fatal car crash.

Nothing appears too suspicious until retired actor Aubrey de Lamplugh meets the same fate, being crushed by a falling cliff.

Two complete accidents, or a double homicide?

That’s what Inspector Borges intends to discover.

At first, the two appear unrelated – how is the death of a young, bored housewife connected with that of an alcoholic egotist?

Slowly, a picture starts to unfurl before the Inspector’s eyes...

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Private-Fac...ndeavour+press


US
https://www.amazon.com/Private-Face-...ndeavour+press


Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Private-Fa...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Private-Face-M...ndeavour+press