FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Little.Egret]

Patricia Wentworth, 10 Miss Silver's reduced to 99p

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia%20...=featured-rank

eg, The Case of William Smith (Miss Silver Mystery Book 13) by Patricia Wentworth 99p

$CDN2.57

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Willia...dp/B0043VD5X6/

For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, and no one expected him to ever find the answer. So when he took his work to Evesleys Ltd, why was his life instantly in danger?

When William makes the frightening discovery that there are people determined not to let his memory return whatever the cost, Miss Silver is called in to investigate. But will she uncover their treachery before Mavis strikes again...?

First published in Great Britain in 1950 by Hodder and Stoughton

[sufue]

Anything But Civil is the second in the Hattie Darvish series by Anna Loan-Wilsey. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Anything-But-...dp/B07BS57QBS/

Spoiler:

In this historical mystery from the “superb” Hattie Davish series, the traveling secretary discovers some Civil War grudges are still deadly twenty-five years on (Library Journal).

Hattie Davish is delighted to be ably assisting her wealthy employer, Sir Arthur Windom-Greene, an English scholar who is fascinated by the American Civil War and who is hard at work putting together a definitive biography of Union general Cornelius Starrett.

Their research takes them to the small town of Galena, Illinois, where they quickly learn that the twenty-five years since the war’s end have done little to heal old wounds. Distrust and betrayal seem to linger in everyone’s minds—none more so than General Starrett’s own pompous son, Henry. Hattie is certain he has something to do with a string of bizarre incidents that have recently plagued the town—and her suspicions are bluntly confirmed when the much-disliked Henry turns up dead.

Between her work for Sir Arthur, preparing for Christmas, and unscheduled visitors from her past, Hattie hardly has time to investigate a murder—but her curiosity prevails, and she soon finds herself lost in a labyrinth of secrets and deceit that leads to more questions than answers . . .

The bestselling author of A Lack of Temperance continues her Victorian-era mystery series that Emily Brightwell calls “a welcome addition to the genre.”

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The Key to Rebecca is a non-series title by Ken Follett. It has dropped to $ at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Key-Rebecca-K...dp/B0023EFB3M/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-key-to-rebecca-2

Spoiler:

Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca took readers and critics by storm when first published more than twenty years ago. Today, it remains one of the best espionage novels ever written. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.

A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent is on the loose in Cairo. His mission is to send Rommel’s advancing army the secrets that will unlock the city’s doors. In all of Cairo, only two people can stop him. One is a down-on-his-luck English officer no one will listen to. The other is a vulnerable young Jewish girl. . . .

[sufue]

Seven price drops on Lawrence Sanders titles to $2.99 - somewhat different list. Link in the quote below is still good.

The Sixth Commandment is the only one at this price (VIP/couponable) at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-sixth-commandment

Originally Posted by sufue

A bunch of price drops on Lawrence Sanders titles, mostly to $2.99, across multiple series and including a couple of omnibuses. As discussed somewhere upthread, Open Road is notorious for re-issues that don't show up as previously bought on the individual book webpages, so check carefully before you buy. Link includes a couple of strays....

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/&se...price-asc-rank

[GA Russell]

The Eagle Has Landed - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B6C2279

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Eagle Has Landed - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B6C2279

Good book!

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Eagle Has Landed - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B6C2279

Also available at Kobo for $1.99

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?Qu...gle+has+landed

[sufue]

Corpus Christmas is a holiday-themed title by Margaret Maron, the 6th in her lesser known Sigrid Harald series. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Corpus-Christ...dp/B007HVOV1O/

Spoiler:

A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House is home to an idiosyncratic collection of art. For over sixty years it has managed on donations from the visiting public and its dwindling trust fund. But tastes in art do change and in trying to restore the house's faded luster, its trustees propose a major retrospective for renowned artist Oscar Nauman. A festive Christmas party in Nauman's honor ends in acrimony--and next morning one of the trustees is found in a most unfestive heap at the bottom of the basement steps. Lt. Sigrid Harald had been an unwilling guest and the party and now she must return to investigate why that trustee was so universally hated. As often happens when Nauman is involved, Sigrid's professional duties are complicated by her off-duty relationships.

Corpus Christmas was first published in 1989, but unlike others in this series, there is little, in a technological sense, to jar the reader unless one compulsively adds and subtracts from the few dates scattered through the text. The New York depicted here is very much as it is today, except—tragically—for the view of lower Manhattan that Sigrid enjoyed from the deck of a Staten Island ferry. Although loosely based on an amalgam of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park, the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, and the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill, the Breul House itself is a complete fiction.

ADD: Now also £0.99 at Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corpus-Chri...dp/B007HVOV1O/

[sufue]

A Client Is Canceled is the fifth (SYKM) or fourth (blurb) in the Captain Heimrich series by Frances & Richard Lockridge. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Client-Cancel...dp/B07B67TCN9/

Spoiler:

A pair of inexperienced sleuths attempts to best Captain Heimrich in this mystery from the authors of the “excellent” Mr. and Mrs. North series (The New Yorker).

Capt. M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there’s no lead the intrepid investigator won’t follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . .

A cocktail party at which no one is particularly fond of one another can be quite a bore. But when two partygoers decide to liven things up by skinny-dipping in the Townsends’ pool, they stumble across a body and dive into a whole lot of trouble.

Paul J. Barlow was a man of means, and now that he’s been shot in the back his wealth will go to his relatives—a fact that doesn’t bode well for the couple who found the body: Barlow’s niece and her husband, Winifred and Orson Otis.

The state police are summoned to the Townsend home, and Captain Heimrich intends to sort out the case right quick. But when the Otises decide to become amateur sleuths to clear their own names, they’re soon in over their heads—and it’s Heimrich to the rescue.

A Client Is Canceled is the 4th book in the Captain Heimrich Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

[sufue]

The Vanished Hands, apa The Silent and the Damned, is the second in the Javier Falcón series by Robert Wilson. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US. Although I haven't read any Falcón titles, I have read and very much liked Wilson's non-series Gold Dagger winner, A Small Death in Lisbon.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Hand...dp/B07BRCQXP9/

Spoiler:

Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a series of suspicious suicides in the “intricate [and] chilling” follow up to The Blind Man of Seville (Publishers Weekly).

In an exclusive suburb of Seville, Spain, a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, the tragic conclusion to an apparent suicide pact. Lucia Vega has been suffocated in her own bed, while her husband, construction magnate Rafael Vega, has succumbed to poison, a bizarre note clutched in his hand. When Inspector Javier Falcón is called to investigate the scene, he senses something is not as it seems—a hunch that proves all too true.

Within two days, two more dubious suicides occur, a fire rages through the hills above the city, and Falcón himself receives ominous threats from the Russian mafia. Embroiled in a conspiracy much larger than it originally appeared, Falcón must uncover the secrets that were buried with the dead, before the gruesome body count rises even higher.

“Tangly, sprawly, garrulous, astute, here’s one more Wilson witchery that intertwines literature and art.” —Los Angeles Times

“Wilson builds a many-layered portrait of survivors and perpetrators, each consumed by rage, guilt, or depression.” —The Boston Globe

[sufue]

Such A Deal: Three Nice Jewish Detectives is an omnibus containing:

• Samson's Deal, by Shelley Singer
• Sourdough Wars, by Julie Smith
• Return to Sender, by Dick Cluster

and a bonus autobiographical novel, Too Jewish, by Patty Friedman.

It is free right now at Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Such-Deal-Thr...dp/B077ZW71CB/

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is five titles in the Shetland series (#2 - #6) by Ann Cleeves for £0.99 each.

Titles are:

• White Nights
• Red Bones
• Blue Lightning
• Dead Water
• Thin Air

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=s9_ac...d_i=1000577623

[sufue]

The Hangman is again at $1.49 at Kindle US. Link below is still good.

This is a 94 page novella. SYKM calls it a "Three Pines ebook novella for emergent readers" and the blurb calls it "a quick and easy read for people on the go", whatever that all means.

Spoiler:

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree.

The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible.

Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. As Gamache follows the trail of clues, he opens a door into the past. And he learns the true reason why the man came to Three Pines.

This book is a quick and easy read for people on the go.

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Hangman (Gamache) - Louise Penny - $1.49
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005ZI33HE

[sufue]

The Mr. Moto Novels is a collection of the first three novels in the Mr. Moto series by John P. Marquand. It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). Titles are:

• Your Turn, Mr. Moto; apa No Hero; apa Mr. Moto Takes a Hand
• Thank You, Mr. Moto
• Think Fast, Mr. Moto

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Moto-Novel...dp/B07B69DKX3/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-mr-moto-novels

Spoiler:

John P. Marquand’s classic espionage series features Imperial Japan’s most skillful spy and the cloak-and-dagger intrigue of Asia between the world wars.

In Your Turn, Mr. Moto, the abrupt cancellation of a transpacific flight strands World War I flying ace Casey Lee in Tokyo, leaving him with little choice but to accept a lucrative job offer from Japanese secret agent Mr. Moto. The mission begins on a steamship bound for Shanghai, where Casey’s fellow passengers include Mr. Moto and Sonya, a beautiful exile from White Russia. When a Chinese man turns up dead in Casey’s stateroom, the trio is caught up in a dangerous game of subterfuge, the outcome of which might just determine the fate of their nations.

Set in 1930s Peking, Thank You, Mr. Moto, follows Tom Nelson, a jaded American expatriate, as he tries to help a gorgeous art dealer clear her name and find the real killer of a British ex-army officer trafficking stolen goods. The search leads Tom and Eleanor Joyce straight into the clutches of General Wu Lo Feng, a notorious warlord from the North who has surreptitiously entered the city. Tom and Eleanor’s only hope for survival is Mr. Moto, but can they trust the enigmatic spymaster—or are they pawns in a secret plot with stakes as monumental as they are sinister?

In Think Fast, Mr. Moto, a Honolulu gambling establishment has become a key strand in a web of political and financial intrigue stretching all the way to the Far East. Sent to convince his cousin, Eva, to close the casino, Wilson Hitchings uncovers the plot and realizes just how much danger his family is in. He and Eva have no choice but to trust Japanese secret agent Mr. Moto, who claims to be in Hawaii on a similar mission. With a cast of shady international characters tracking their every move, this unlikely trio could be facing odds far too long to beat.

First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, the popular and acclaimed Mr. Moto Novels, which were the inspiration for eight films starring Peter Lorre, provide some of the most compelling and realistic depictions of spycraft in early twentieth-century fiction.

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The Cursing Stones Murder is the 21st in the Inspector Littlejohn series by George Bellairs. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Cursing-Stone...dp/B07C2M18YN/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...tones-murder-1

Spoiler:

A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the “pure British detective story” (The New York Times).

The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging—but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse was tied at the ankles and weighed down with stones, it’s clear this was no accidental drowning—and now the locals are in an uproar.

The victim appears to be Cedric Levis, who had an extravagant house and a reputation for philandering. Was Levis murdered for his money—or was this a crime of passion? Under the pretext of a holiday, Chief Inspector Littlejohn is invited by his old friend Archdeacon Kinrade to unofficially assist with the murder investigation—but to separate fact from fiction, he’ll have to sort through accusations, town gossip, and mysterious stories surrounding the ancient Cursing Stones . . .