FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Originally Posted by sufue

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is seven Tom Clancy books (the second through the eighth Jack Ryan books) for £0.99 each.

Thanks! I only had one of those in ebook!

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Fer-de-Lance is on sale again, and this time for better prices: $1.99 in the US, £0.99 at Kindle UK, and £1.99 (but also discountable) at Kobo UK. The links below are still good, and here's the one for Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/fer-de-lance-2

Originally Posted by sufue

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout is $2.99 in the US again today, and also £1.49 in the UK. Here are links for both US and UK...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003V4BPG0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fer-de-lance-2
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003V4BPG0

More info in this previous post...

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Mr. Majestyk: A Novel by Elmore Leonard - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC12X2

Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands -- and especially when the local mob is calling all the shots. And one quiet, proud man's refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood is about to start a violent chain reaction that will leave Mr. Majestyk ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world -- except for one tough and beautiful woman. But his tormentors never realized something about their mark: this is not his first war. Vince Majestyk knows more than they'll ever know about survival . . . and everything about revenge.

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Killshot: A Novel by Elmore Leonard - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC12F0

“[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshot is his best, but it probably is anyway.”
—Newsweek

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In Sunshine or in Shadow is the twentieth and most recent (until a new one comes out next year) in Rhys Bowen's Molly Murphy series, which is now, per SYKM, being co-written by Bowen and her daughter, Clare Broyles. It's $2.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1X77V48
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/in-...r-in-shadow-10

Spoiler:

Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles.

New York, 1908: The days are getting longer—and warmer—in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn’t want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she’s expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County. Molly tells herself it won’t be so bad, after all the countryside is pretty, and she’s determined to make the best of it. Even if she’s leaving her husband, Daniel, behind. And at least she’s not the only one heading north. Her great friends, Sid and Gus, are headed to the Catskills to visit Sid’s family.

Though her mother-in-law is a surprisingly excellent host, Molly quickly grows bored. And when Sid and Gus invite her to visit, Molly jumps at the chance to stay with them at an artist’s community. What a pleasant time they’ll have, so far from the city, although Sid isn’t so enthusiastic about having to visit her family in the nearby Jewish bungalow community. But deep in the Catskills, tensions are running high, and it’s not long before a body delays Molly’s return to Westchester.

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And Only to Deceive is now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OI0E0Y
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/and-only-to-deceive

Originally Posted by sufue

And Only to Deceive is the first in the Lady Emily series by Tasha Alexander. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Deceiv...dp/B00AN2KQTU/

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This is kind of late notice because I've been busy, but Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK, good only for a few more hours , is the first ten books in Louise Penny's excellent IMO Inspector Gamache series for £0.99 each. So if you have a hole or two to fill, now's your chance...

Titles are:

• Still Life
• Dead Cold, apa A Fatal Grace
• The Cruelest Month
• The Murder Stone, apa A Rule Against Murder
• The Brutal Telling
• Bury Your Dead
• A Trick of the Light
• The Beautiful Mystery
• How the Light Gets In
• The Long Way Home

Kindle Big Deal page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/?_encodin...ode=4725112031

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There are now five books in this series, although I've still only read the first two, that I had review copies of. And now the three most recent books are all $1.99 each in the US. The Kindle link below is still good for the third book, and here are links for the rest. And the series is discountable at Kobo US.

Bad Scene, #3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bad-scene

Line of Darkness, #4
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R8WYWWY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/line-of-darkness

Night Candy, #5
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B928PYGV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/night-candy

Originally Posted by sufue

I liked the first two mysteries in Max Tomlinson's Colleen Hayes series. The series is sort of a detective-procedural series, mixed with a touch of noir, set in 1970s San Francisco. (Disclaimer: I lived near San Francisco in the 1970s, so I have a bit of fondness for the locale.) Now the third in the series, Bad Scene, is on sale for $1.99 at Kindle US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BZVY97R
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If you want to read my review of the first book, Vanishing in the Haight, it's on my blog - the link is in my signature below.

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I read several books in Susan McBride's cozy Debutante Dropout series back in the 2000s and have warm, if slightly fuzzy, memories of them. Now Joffe is offering an omnibus of all four titles in McBride's Helen Evans series for $0.99/£0.99 in the US/UK.

The titles in The Complete Helen Evans Investigates omnibus are:

• To Helen Back
• Mad as Helen
• Not a Chance in Helen
• Come Helen High Water

And there's also a previously unpublished novella...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJR742MY
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DJR742MY

Spoiler:

Get this complete series plus a bonus novella full of small-town charm.

MEET THE DETECTIVE
Grandmother and widow Helen Evans is seventy-five years old. Helen’s husband Joe died three years ago so now she lives with just one roommate: a twenty-pound tomcat named Amber. She finds joy in crossword puzzles and quilting. She’s full of moxie and hardly feels like her expiration date has passed, so when the sheriff clearly requires her assistance in solving murders, what’s a gal to do? Frank Biddle is a stand-up guy, but he just doesn’t have her encyclopedic knowledge of the town’s residents and all their life stories. Sometimes he calls her ‘Miss Marple’, but he’s just teasing. Like any good puzzler, Helen will go to hell and back to find the answers.

THE SETTING
River Bend, Illinois, is a cozy Midwestern town set in a valley along the Mississippi River. Though River Bend might not seem like much, it does have a sheriff, a grocer’s, a diner, a hair salon, a small harbor, and even a defunct lighthouse. Creeks run through the verdant grounds, and, in the wettest of springs, flooding can shut down the whole town. The good people of River Bend are like one big family. Those who have secrets don’t tend to keep them for long. If there’s one thing River Benders are known for, it’s sticking their noses where they don’t belong.

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I've also read and liked (and remember better) most of the books in Catriona McPherson's Dandy Gilver series - also cozy, but occasionally with a bit of bite. But McPherson also writes some non-series thrillers, and since I'm not usually much for thrillers, I haven't read any of those. Now, however, Joffe is offering The Day She Died, which, per SYKM, won the 2015 Anthony Award for Best Paperback, for free.

One note, since I've been super busy at work, and am late posting, it may not be free much longer. So grab it now if you want it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099S6ZJQY
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099S6ZJQY

Spoiler:

***AN ANTHONY AWARD WINNER***
***AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST***

Jessie Constable gets together with the man of her dreams . . . on the day his wife dies.

The day his wife drives her car off a bridge.

Now everything that was the wife’s is Jessie’s — the man, the kids, the forever home. Everything that Jessie has always dreamed of.

She wants to believe her perfect new life is for real. But it’s not, is it?

Discover an utterly unputdownable bestseller from Catriona McPherson with a shattering final twist.

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And one more Joffe freebie right now: Dead Centre is the seventh and final book (although the Kindle page says it's the first, but I believe SYKM) in Joan Lock's historical Inspector Best series. I haven't read this series, which was published back in the 2000s, but am always happy to try a new historical series.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGGZ2X49
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGGZ2X49

Spoiler:

1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

Trafalgar Square. London.

Unrest has been building for days, the unemployed gathering daily to protest and nightly to sleep.

The police are exhausted by extra duty; blamed for failing to do more to prevent the disorder, they grow increasingly bitter about the protesters’ accusations of brutality.

When a prominent member of one of the new socialist organisations is found dead at the foot of Nelson’s Column, it only adds more fuel to the protesters’ fire.

DI Best and Constable Roberts must juggle competing priorities as they search for the killer and attempt to manage the Trafalgar Square situation.

To make matters worse, Best catches a glimpse of Stark, a man guilty of murder in Whitechapel — the only witness to the crime is Florence Bagnall, Roberts’s fiancé.

As tensions rise and time begins to run out, Best realises that something terrible is about to happen…and that he may be powerless to stop it.

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The Comfort of Ghosts is the eighteenth and most recent (2024), and, per its blurb, also the final book in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It's £0.99 in the UK right now. And it's discountable at Kobo UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQ1DPDLB
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...rt-of-ghosts-1

Spoiler:

1945. In London, it feels as if the peace is harder than the war. Years of devastating Luftwaffe bombing has obliterated stretches of the city and left others abandoned. Against this backdrop, psychologist-investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the plight of a group of adolescent orphans, along with a gravely ill demobbed soldier who are squatting in a Belgravia mansion.

Maisie's attempt to help brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning her first husband, James Compton, who was killed while flying an experimental fighter aircraft. The deeply personal investigation leads her to a ghostly figure who is grappling with the weight of his own conscience and the outcome of the part he played during the war.

This final instalment in the internationally bestselling series will challenge so much of what Maisie understands about her life and forces her to question what she has always accepted to be true.