FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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I’m almost embarrassed posting this, since these “sale” prices aren’t very good. But Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn books, which I really like, rarely go on sale, and as mentioned above are outrageously priced, mostly at $10.99 and up, when not on sale. Or even more – see An Image in the Lake at Kindle US below!!! So, a sale price of $5.99, which is discountable to $4.85 at Kobo if you have Kobo VIP, or a coupon, starts seeming not too bad. And if you live in, or can visit Canada, they are also the same price in Canadian dollars. Oh yeah, and with the exception of the last one, The Legacy, the sale prices are only at Kobo...

Right now the most recent four books in the series are mostly $5.99 at various retailers:

The Unlocking Season, #19
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-unlocking-season
Kobo Canada: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-unlocking-season

An Image in the Lake, #20
Kindle US: NOT ON SALE – $24.99 for the Kindle edition !!!
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/an-image-in-the-lake
Kobo Canada: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/an-image-in-the-lake

What’s Past Is Prologue, #21
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wha...-is-prologue-3
Kobo Canada: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/wha...-is-prologue-3

The Legacy, #22
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7HJ53LH
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-legacy-158
Kindle Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0C7HJ53LH
Kobo Canada: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-legacy-158

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Now $0.75 for the omnibus of four books, but only at Kindle US, not at Kobo. I liked these books enough to be sad that the rest of the 30+ books in the series appear (per SYKM) not to have been translated into English...

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The Pieter Van In Mysteries is an ominbus of the only four titles in the series (by Pieter Aspe) that have been translated into English - at least according to SYKM. The omnibus has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). All of the titles have been on sale individually before at various times, so check carefully before you buy. I've read and enjoyed all four of these, and wish that some more of the remaining loooooong series would get translated from what I assume is Flemish.

The titles in the ominbus are:

• The Square of Revenge
• The Midas Murders
• From Bruges with Love
• The Fourth Figure

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07781WXM4/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...n-in-mysteries

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An Invitation to Murder, apa Tongued with Fire, is the first in the Oldminster mystery series by Norman Russell. It's a Joffe freebie right now.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LD66H43
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09LD66H43

Spoiler:

Delivering twist after brilliant twist, this clever whodunnit is sure to keep you guessing until the final page.

Welcome to Oldminster, a quaint little town where there’s always a mystery to be solved.

Frank Renfield, Baron of Renfield Hall, will stop at nothing to save himself from ruin. Even if that means marrying his daughter off to a rich American.

Unfortunately for him, she is already in love with a penniless nobody named Alan Lavender — to the glee of Alan’s greedy uncle Guy.

He’s been nosing into the Renfields’ murky past, and he says he’s uncovered a secret. Something so shocking it casts a shadow over Frank’s entire legacy.

Tensions run high at the hall, until Guy Lavender turns up dead.

A convenient coincidence for Frank?

Detectives French and Edwards are on the case. But in a town full of secrets, the truth can be hard to find.

And Guy’s won’t be the only body to fall before their work is done . . .

Who will be next to die under the Renfields’ roof?

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Five Peter Decker/Riza Lazarus books by Faye Kellerman are on sale in the US right now for $1.99 each:

Milk and Honey, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015KGWYW
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/milk-and-honey

Sanctuary, #7
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W9167U
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sanctuary-20

Stalker, #12
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W917TM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stalker-1

Blindman's Bluff, #18
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JB3ED8
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blindman-s-bluff

Gun Games, #20
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00570OZDG
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gun...-lazarus-novel

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Voices of Rome contains four novellas by Lindsey Davis, a couple of which I've read and enjoyed. I do think the blurb is a bit too flowery - Davis's books are among my favorites, but "two immortal series" and "finest living novelist of Ancient Rome" is a bit too much IMO . But that's not Davis' fault. The novellas are: The Bride from Bithynia, The Spook Who Spoke Again, Vesuvius by Night, and Invitation to Die. The collection has dropped to $0.99 in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7Q9MG5S
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/voices-of-rome-1

Spoiler:

Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daughter, Flavia Albia. She is regarded as the finest living novelist of Ancient Rome. Here, for the first time in book form, are four novella-length stories written to illuminate her unparalleled output of the last 30 years.

The Bride from Bithynia tells the story of Aelia Camilla who travels 1000 miles to Britain to marry Gaius Flavius, a Roman officer. But their relationship struggles, then the province explodes in the Boudican Revolt. Now, it will be up to Aelia to save herself from the conflagration.

The Spook Who Spoke Again. Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is an odd boy who has known two families. That of Marcus Didius himself and his actual birth mother, Thalia the Snake Dancer. Things begin to unravel quickly when he decides to emulate his adopted father and investigate a death in Thalia's troupe of exotic performers.

Vesuvius by Night. Two men share a room but seldom meet. Nonius is a pimp and part time thief who operates at night, Larius is a fresco painter who dreams of artistic greatness by day. When the volcano erupts, one will begin looting hastily abandoned villas, the other will do anything he can to save himself and his family.

Invitation to Die. When the Emperor Domitian invites the entire senatorial class to a banquet to honour the recent war dead, many think he intends to take revenge on his enemies. When the Camillus brothers enter the black-painted hall where the feast is being held and see their names engraved on monumental stones, they fear they will not survive the night...

Four pivotal events, fact and fiction. Four stories which allow Davis's much-loved characters new space and the opportunity to take personal roles in tense situations, with moving results. They face villainy, tragedy, accident, confusion and fear - but each story is told with the wry humour, and underpinned by human wisdom, courage and love.