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?

[sufue]

Five Joe Grey (and Dulcie, and Kit) mysteries by Shirley Rousseau Murphy are on sale in the UK right now for less than £2.00 each…

• Cat Laughing Last, #7, £1.59: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000W916G6
  
• Cat Seeing Double, #8, £1.59: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000W9654Y
  
• Cat Pay the Devil, #12, £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000W93AM4
  
• Cat Playing Cupid, #14, £1.59: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001NLL92S
  
• Cat Telling Tales, #17, £1.59: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0053JOL5I

[sufue]

This is a repeat Joffe freebie, as part of today's Free Friday batch. The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Joffe Books publish a few authors I like: Jeanne M Dams, Veronica Black, and Nicholas Rhea come to mind. And they publish some others who are probably good as well, but that with my too-large TBR list, I just never really get around to trying. And they also do occasional freebies and nice price drops from time-to-time.

Per an email I just got from Joffe today, Deadly Lies, apa A Worm in the Bud, which is the first in Chris Collett's Detective Mariner series, is free from now until October 14. I haven't read anything of Collett's, but for free...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075XT8Y4D
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075XT8Y4D

And probably also at some other Amazon country sites, per their email...

[pdurrant]

From a Far and Lovely Country by Alexander McCall Smith, the 24th in his No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency is now £0.99 at Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BT4HFJCW

[pdurrant]

In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin, the 22nd in his Inspector Rebus series is now £0.99 at Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B9J3G7K

[sufue]

The two most recent books in Anne Hillerman's continuation of her father's Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito series are on sale right now in the US.

The Way of the Bear (2023), $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B71NTJZV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-way-of-the-bear

Lost Birds (2024), $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCP5FRHC
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lost-birds-3

[sufue]

A Killing of Innocents is on sale now for $1.99 in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FLPZ68H
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-killing-of-innocents

Originally Posted by sufue

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is fifteen crime, thriller and mystery books for £0.99 each. The best of the lot (to me) is Deborah Crombie's newest (2023) Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James book, A Killing of Innocents. {edited other stuff}

Note that the Crombie book is published in Feb 2023, and is not on sale, at least as of now, at Kobo UK...

[sufue]

Another really rare price drop on a Michael McGarrity/Kevin Kerney book - this time on the second in the series, Serpent Gate. It's $1.99 right now in the US. I really like this series, and have been slowly picking them up in e-book over the years, but have never seen this one on sale before.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AK80E3U
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/serpent-gate

Spoiler:

After receiving a call from the newly appointed chief of the New Mexico State Police, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney is thrown into an investigation of a small-town cop-killing no one has been able to solve. His only lead: a homeless schizophrenic's ramblings about rape and an uncharted place called Serpent Gate.

Meanwhile, back in Santa Fe, priceless art is stolen from the governor's offices and a beautiful young blonde is murdered in a millionaire's mansion. Kerney follows a trail of clues to Mexico, where he faces off against an old nemesis with powerful government connections. Unwilling to back down, Kerney must use all of his tenacity, raw courage, and knowledge of the criminal mind in a bloody showdown that may cost him his life.

[sufue]

Another one of those most-recent-in-series UK deals for £0.99...

This time it's Jonathan Kellerman's latest (2024) Alex Delaware book, Ghost Orchid, and sadly, since I've been swamped and a bit late in posting, it's only for a few hours more.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C6168GD4
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-ghost-orchid-5

Spoiler:

Some secrets are worth killing for.

In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour.

An illicit affair is the perfect motive. But the house is untouched - no forced entry, no forensic evidence - and so LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis and asks psychologist Alex Delaware to help unpick the case.

It quickly becomes clear that both victims had troubled pasts. Now Alex and Milo must confront LA's darkest side as they unravel a trail of deadly secrets . . .

[sufue]

Who Cries for the Lost is the next-to-most-recent (2023) in CS Harris' Sebastian St Cyr series. It's on sale in the UK, although sadly, not in the US.

Kindle UK, £1.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B5SRZPSH
Kobo UK, £2.99, but discountable: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/who-cries-for-the-lost

Spoiler:

Sebastian St. Cyr must confront a savage killer and save his closest friend from the hangman’s noose in this heart-pounding new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of When Blood Lies.

June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at Waterloo. Among them is Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, frustrated to find himself sidelined while recovering from a dangerous wound he recently received in Paris. When the mutilated corpse of Major Miles Sedgewick surfaces from the murky waters of the Thames, Sebastian is drawn into the investigation of a murder that threatens one of his oldest and dearest friends, Irish surgeon Paul Gibson.

Gibson’s lover, Alexi Sauvage, was tricked into a bigamous marriage with the victim. But there are other women who may have wanted the cruel, faithless Major dead. His mistress, his neglected wife, and their young governess who he seduced all make for compelling suspects. Even more interesting to Sebastian is one of Sedgewick’s fellow officers, a man who shared Sedgewick’s macabre interest in both old English folklore and the occult. And then there’s a valuable list of Londoners who once spied for Napoleon that Sedgewick was said to be transporting to Charles, Lord Jarvis, the Regent’s powerful cousin who also happens to be Sebastian’s own father-in-law.

The deeper Sebastian delves into Sedgewick’s life, the more he learns about the Major’s many secrets and the list of people who could have wanted him dead grows even longer. Soon others connected to Sedgewick begin to die strange, brutal deaths and more evidence emerges that links Alexi to the crimes. Certain that Gibson will be implicated alongside his lover, Sebastian finds himself in a desperate race against time to stop the killings and save his friends from the terror of the gallows.

[sufue]

All the Flowers Are Dying is the sixteenth in Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series. It's $0.99 right now at Kindle US, but not at Kobo US, and not in the UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCJZ0Y

Spoiler:

A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didn’t . . .

An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much—and is ready to leave the darkness behind . . .

But a nightmare is coming home—because a brilliant, savage, patient monster has unfinished business in the big city . . . and a hunger that can be satisfied only by fear and the slow, agonizing death of Matthew Scudder and the woman he loves.