FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

This is a great series, although the last couple of books have been a little more thriller-ish than the earlier ones. Still good, IMO, but more of the outside world (e.g. major criminals/terrorists) intruding somewhat improbably into the Périgord.

Originally Posted by Tarana

I'm going to start listing more cozies of authors I don't know as I know some of you are big fans of cozies.
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Bruno, Chief of Police By Martin Walker $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Small town police chief joins forces with big city detective. Don't know author but looked interesting.

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[sufue]

Woo-hoo...The Queen of Bedlam, the second in the Matthew Corbett series by Robert McCammon is now on sale for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VM9Z2G
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000VM9Z2G
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-queen-of-bedlam

Originally Posted by sufue

The same four titles (and omnibus) have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US again. Sadly, the first and second titles, Speaks the Nightbird and Queen of Bedlam, are still absurdly at $10.99 and up, and there is now a seventh title, Cardinal Black, published in 2019, that is $9.99. But still this is a good chunk of the series - books 3 though 6. The links in the quoted post are having some issues, so here is a new link for the Kindle books. Also, only one of these is $2.99 at Kobo US right now, so I'm just providing a link for that.

Kindle US (link includes a couple of other stray McCammon titles also priced at $2.99): http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?sea...price-asc-rank

Kobo US, Freedom of the Mask, #6, coupon/VIPable: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/freedom-of-the-mask

[sufue]

Tracy/Teresa Grant has written a very complicated historical series featuring first Charles and Mélanie Fraser, and then later Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch, who are recognizably the same couple, but with different names, apparently due to some publisher disputes. And to make matters more confusing, probably due to the same dispute, some of the books were published using Tracy Grant and some using the pen name Teresa Grant. And finally, Grant didn't write the early parts of the series in much of any sort of chronological order. But, if you can wade through all of that, I've found it to be quite an enjoyable series, both the traditionally published and the NYLA-published titles.

Now here is The Carfax Intrigue, one of the more recent (2020) titles in the series, on sale in the US/UK for $0.99/£0.77. I haven't read this one, but as I said above, I have read most of the titles in the series and have liked them all.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHSG43W
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KHSG43W

Spoiler:

June 1820. Britain’s former prince regent, now George IV, is determined to divorce his estranged wife, Queen Caroline, and the coming trial is the talk of London, from Mayfair to Westminster to Seven Dials, dredging up scandalous details and pitting Whigs against Tories in a battle for power. When former spies Malcolm and Mélanie Rannoch learn their enemies in the mysterious Elsinore League are trying to sell letters that could prove key at the trial, the Rannochs are determined to intercept these vital papers before they can be used against Queen Caroline.

The exchange is to take place in the candlelit splendor of Carfax House, at the first ball Malcolm and Mélanie’s friends Julien and Kitty are giving in their new roles as Lord and Lady Carfax. But Malcolm and Mélanie aren’t the only ones determined to intercept the letters. Amidst a night of champagne and waltzing, Mélanie and Malcolm find themselves entrapped in an intrigue that may be as deadly as any they faced in the Napoleonic Wars...

[Tarana]

Matcha Do About Murder By Eryn Scott FREE Amazon Only
Pebble Cove Teahouse Mystery (book 2) - haven't read author. cozy

Hold Your Breath By B P Walter $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Psychological thriller. Haven't read author but it looked interesting.

Deadline By Simon Kernick $.99 Amazon only
Thriller. From UK imprint under Penguin books. Haven't read author, but looked interesting.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by sufue

Woo-hoo...The Queen of Bedlam, the second in the Matthew Corbett series by Robert McCammon is now on sale for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VM9Z2G
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000VM9Z2G
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-queen-of-bedlam

It's an excellent series. The audible narration is also great for these books. I have the first two in audio, they take a bit to get through but the narration is well done. I have the third and fourth in e-book form from a previous sale. The rest I don't own yet, still not halfway through the series.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Matcha Do About Murder By Eryn Scott FREE Amazon Only
Pebble Cove Teahouse Mystery (book 2) - haven't read author. cozy
...

The first book in the series, Steeped in Suspicion, is also free at the moment. I only checked Amazon.

Here

[Tarana]

Other than Kathy Reichs, I haven't read any of these authors.

Murder in a Scottish Shire By Traci Hall $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy featuring sweater shop

Murder in Mind By Cheryl Bradshaw FREE Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Crime fiction

Bones Never Lie By Kathy Reichs $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Forensic Thriller

Murder at Half Moon Gate By Andrea Penrose $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical mystery

Victim Six By Gregg Olsen $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller

The Silencer Series: Books 5–8 By Mike Ryan $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller

[Tarana]

Some Choose Darkness By Charlie Donlea $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Forensic thriller

Dark Fissures By Matt Coyle $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller

Their Frozen Graves By Ruhi Choudhary $.99 Amazon, Kobo
Crime fiction

His Bloody Project By Graeme Macrae Burnet $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Booker prize finalist

Cutthroat Cupcakes By Cate Lawley FREE Amazon
Paranormal cozy and it has a cupcake on the cover!

[Tarana]

Grand Slam Murders By R.J. Lee $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy

Darkness, Take My Hand By Dennis Lehane $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Crime Fiction

Purple Cane Road By James Lee Burke $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Crime Fiction

A Forgotten Place By Charles Todd $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical mystery - WW1

The Cape Raider By Justin Fox $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical naval thriller set in WW2. Don't know this author, but interesting.

[BelleZora]

Thanks, Tarana. I picked up Purple Cane Road. James Lee Burke is one of my favorite authors. I always enjoy re-reading his novels.

[sufue]

Random House seems (finally) to be repeating some price drops on Travis McGee titles. This one, The Quick Red Fox, was last on sale about 3 1/2 years ago. The titles in this classic series only go on sale in the US really rarely, not for very long, and are outrageously priced when not on sale, so grab this one now if you want it. Otherwise, you'll have another 3 1/2 years to wait !

Links below are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Quick Red Fox is the 4th in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Red-Fox...dp/B009FKVUU0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-quick-red-fox

[sufue]

The Hot Rock is the first in the Dortmunder series by Donald E. Westlake. It's a rare reasonable price drop in the UK on an Open Road/Mysterious Press title right now at £1.99.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005UK7TVS
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005UK7TVS

Spoiler:

Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper “filled with action and imagination” (The New York Times Book Review).

John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a $500,000 emerald that they just have to steal. Dortmunder doesn’t hesitate to agree. The emerald is the crown jewel of a former British colony, lately granted independence and split into two nations: one for the Talabwo people, one for the Akinzi. The Akinzi have the stone, the Talabwo want it back, and their UN representative offers a fine payday to the men who can get it. It’s not a simple heist, but after a few years in stir, Dortmunder could use the challenge.

[salty-horse]

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith is $2.99 on Amazon.com

It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.

[Tarana]

The Chase By Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (book 2) $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Accomplished burglar ends up teamed with FBI agent. I loved the early books and novellas of this series.

The Last Chance Olive Ranch By Susan Wittig Albert $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy

Fighters of Fear By Collected Authors edited by Mike Ashley $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Anthology; I don't know any of the authors listed.

A Retrospective Collection of Classic Occult and Supernatural Detective Stories by Some of the Field’s Greatest and Best-Known Weird Fiction Authors. This new collection compiles thirty-one all-time classic occult detective stories as it traces the genre’s growth from its nineteenth-century origins to the late twentieth century, showcasing the work of acclaimed pioneers of weird tales alongside cult favorites and exciting modern talents.

Mercy By Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Medical suspense thriller

The 7th Victim By Alan Jacobson $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller

Midnight at Malabar House By Vaseem Khan (book 1 of series) $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
First female detective in India must solve murder of diplomat. Historical crime
I don't know this Brit author, but I've not had a crime novel set in India before. Long listed for CWA Historical Dagger. Also, if you go to author's website, by signing up for his newsletter, you will receive his book on the history and culture of India in 50 articles.

Looking Good Dead By Peter James $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Crime Fiction

Murder at Ochre Court By Alyssa Maxwell $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical Cozy set in 1898

Ordeal By Jorn Lier Horst $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Norwegian police procedural. Book 5 of 6.

[sufue]

The Museum of Desire is the 35th, and next to most recent, in Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series. It is on sale for $2.99 in the US today...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RL4JBM3
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07RL4JBM3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-museum-of-desire-1

Spoiler:

LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them—the ones he calls “different”—he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one’s beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level.

Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely and horrifically in a stretch limousine. Confounding the investigation, none of the victims seems to have any connection to any other, and a variety of methods have been used to dispatch them. As Alex and Milo make their way through blind alleys and mazes baited with misdirection, they encounter a crime so vicious that it stretches the definitions of evil.