FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[GA Russell]

Fit to Kill
Mike Shayne #29
Brett Halliday

50 cents

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010N004VQ

[sufue]

Revenge of the Stormbringer is the 34th and most recent (2023) in the excellent IMO Sister Fidelma series by Peter Tremayne. It has dropped to £2.99 in the UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BMLJGTL7
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/rev...e-stormbringer

Spoiler:

Summer, AD 672. Princess Gelgéis has arrived in Cashel with her personal bodyguard, a troop of female warriors called the Daughters of the Storm. When one of them is found slain next to the sleeping chamber of the newly married king and queen and, a short time later, the stewardess of the royal house is poisoned, questions are raised as to everyone's safety . . .

Fidelma and Eadulf must first explain the 'locked room' mystery of how the attack took place in King Colgu's specially built secure apartment. Then they must interrogate the growing list of suspects - even Enda, the commander of the household guard, who had formed a romantic attachment to the murdered attendant, cannot be ignored . . .

As the fair being held to celebrate the king and queen's wedding approaches, tensions mount and Fidelma must work quickly to expose a ruthless killer before it is too late . . .

And if you haven't yet tried this series, there is also an omnibus of the first three titles in the series available in the UK for £3.99. The Sister Fidelma 20th Anniversary Collection contains: Absolution by Murder, Shroud for the Archbishop, and Suffer Little Children.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00M407D8G
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...ary-collection

And finally, although most of the series is fairly reasonably priced at £3.99 in the UK (NOT in the US), there is one more that is £2.99 right now.

Dancing with Demons, #18

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0037472ES
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/dan...ries-book-18-2

[sufue]

Three years later, No Place to Hide is free again, as the Joffe Free Friday (but usually good through the weekend) thriller for this weekend. The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Joffe Books sent me an email indicating that No Place to Hide by Dan Latus, which is the first in the Jake Ord series, is free now through March 14 at Kindle US and UK. I've read and enjoyed some other titles by Joffe Books authors, but haven't read anything by Latus. This looks a little more thriller-ish than I usually go for, but obviously others may have other tastes . And it's free...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TMYVCLZ/
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08TMYVCLZ/

[sufue]

Another Joffe Books freebie - this time from their imprint, Lume Books...

Sue for Mercy, by Veronica Heley, is, per the author's website, a re-release in e-book of a 1974 stand-alone mystery/thriller.* *I haven't read this one, but have liked some of Heley's other books.**

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH47LNVQ
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CH47LNVQ

Spoiler:

When Sue Stephens comes across a car crash one January night, she finds it hard to believe it was a genuine accident.

She saw the car race past her, and the driver she caught a glimpse of was not the young, handsome man who she finds stinking of alcohol, bleeding heavily and spilling out of the driving seat.

So where is the real driver?

And why did he run off and leave this man unconscious?

When Sue takes the victim, Charles, to hospital he claims he can remember nothing since he left work three days earlier.

But is he lying to her?

She begins to fear he is involved in something illegal…

If so, is the handsome Charles a victim or villain of the piece?

And whose money — or life — is at stake? Should Sue retreat from the man who is beginning to steal her heart?

Or risk her life to find out the truth?

[sufue]

The Grave Maurice is the eighteenth Richard Jury book by Martha Grimes. It's $1.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002DQW9TE
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-grave-maurice

Spoiler:

"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.

Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon.

But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm. A woman has been found dead on the track-a woman who was a stranger even to the Ryders.

But not to Plant. She's the woman he saw in The Grave Maurice. Together with Jury, Nell's family, and the Cambridgeshire police, Plant embarks on a search to find Nell and bring her home. But is there more to their mission than just restoring a fifteen-year-old girl to her family?