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The Collector is the most recent (2023) in Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series, at least until the new one comes out in July. It's £0.99 in the UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BP9WWVD5
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-collector-89

Spoiler:

On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society’s annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon—a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions of the world’s most valuable missing painting. General Ferrari asks Gabriel to quietly track down the artwork before the trail goes cold.

“Isn’t that your job?”

“Finding stolen paintings? Technically speaking, yes. But you’re much better at it than we are.”

The painting in question is The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, one of thirteen works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. With the help of a most unlikely ally, a beautiful Danish computer hacker and professional thief, Gabriel soon discovers that the painting has changed hands as part of an illicit billion-dollar business deal involving a man code-named the Collector, an energy executive with close ties to the highest levels of Russian power.

The missing masterpiece is the lynchpin of a conspiracy that if successful, could plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. To foil the plot, Gabriel must carry out a daring heist of his own, with millions of lives hanging in the balance.

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The five early books in this series, now published by Canelo, are on sale again at Kindle US, and UK. And the first one is free at both.

Kindle US (first free, second $1.99, rest $3.99): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XXBVDYW...kindle_edition
Kindle UK (first free, second £0.99, rest £1.99): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XXBVD...kindle_edition

Originally Posted by sufue

As I mentioned once before, it seems as if Kate Sedley got the rights back to some of her early Roger the Chapman books, and e-published them through Canelo, with reasonable prices. And right now, the first two in the series (Death and the Chapman, and The Plymouth Cloak) are on sale for $0.99/£0.99 in the US/UK. And the next three are $3.99 in the US and £1.99 in the UK, which is not too bad, at least in the UK... Now I wish she'd get the rights back to some of the later titles - a few of which go on sale pretty often, but many of which don't...

Here are links to the five Canelo books:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FL5JDMJ
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...a-9d950bea9b74
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09FL5JDMJ

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The Great Deceiver is the seventh and most recent in the Brighton Mysteries series by Elly Griffiths. It has dropped to £0.99 in the UK right now, possibly just for today.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B097LDL1WF
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-great-deceiver-2

Spoiler:

It starts with a magician and a murder in a Brighton boarding house; throw in a show on Brighton pier, a sinister radio personality and a potential serial killer, and you've got the next gripping book in the Brighton Mysteries series.

Magician Max Mephisto is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka the Great Deceiver. Ted's assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and Ted is convinced that he'll be accused of her murder.

Max agrees to talk to his friend, Superintendent Edgar Stephens, who is investigating the case. What Max doesn't know is that the girl's family have hired private detective duo Emma Holmes (Edgar's wife) and Sam Collins to do some digging of their own.

When a second magician's assistant is killed, Edgar persuades Max to perform one last time - with a female assistant as decoy. But who will he choose for the role.

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As I've complained about before, Michael McGarrity's books don't often go on sale in the US, and when they do, the sale price is usually $4 or $5. That's better than their non-sale prices, which are mostly $10 and up, but still not great. I really liked this series when reading in DTB, so over the years have gradually picked them up when they would go on sale for maybe $3 or so, But now here's Mexican Hat, which is the second Kevin Kerney book, on sale for $1.99 in the US. So grab it fast if you want it!.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KKB7E8
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mex...-kerney-novels

Spoiler:

With his dazzling debut, Tularosa, Michael McGarrity was hailed "a born storyteller" (Denver Post)—and introduced readers to a memorable new hero, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney. Now, featuring his vivid feel for the southwest, McGarrity's second gripping novel hurls Kerney onto the toughest case of his life.


Taking a job as a seasonal forest ranger in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, Kevin Kerney is looking forward to a quiet summer high in the mountains. But the murder of a Mexican tourist, and the discovery of a disoriented old man in the wild, thrust Kerney into an investigation that will carry him back in time to a sixty-year-old feud between two land-rich brothers, Edgar and Eugene Cox.


Enlisting young state game and fish officer Jim Stiles to help solve the crimes, Kerney slowly uncovers evidence connecting the ruthless Cox feud with another suspicious death—and the radical actions of New Mexico's present-day county militia. But new assistant district attorney Karen Cox—Edgar's alluring daughter—is torn between hiding her father's long-buried secret and helping Kerney find the truth. Now someone wants Kerney dead—and the deeper he investigates, the more he may be digging his own grave...

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Why Mermaids Sing is on sale again in the UK (£0.99) and in the US ($1.99). The UK link below is still good, and here are US links:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X1E47Q
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/why...st-cyr-mystery

Originally Posted by sufue

Why Mermaids Sing is the third Sebastian St. Cyr book by CS Harris. It's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000X1E47Q

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Double Illusion is the next-to-most-recent (2023) in Barbara Nadel's Inspector Ikmen series. It's on sale right now for $2.99/£2.99 in the US/UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMQFD3YK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dou...n-mystery-25-1
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BMLH937Q

Spoiler:

The gripping twenty-fifth Ikmen mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel will delight her many fans.

Don't miss Ikmen and Suleyman in the sensational TV series The Turkish Detective

When Ateş Böcek, son of a feared Istanbul gang leader, is arrested for the brutal murder of his Roma lover, feelings of vengeance are ignited among rival Turkish gangs and the Roma community. Forensic evidence is stacked against him, but Ateş refuses to speak, and Inspector Suleyman suspects that there is more to the case than meets the eye. Then Cetin Ikmen discovers that Ateş is psychotic and believes that everyone in his life is an imposter, which suggests that Ates might in fact be a victim of a far more sinister game . . .

As violence erupts, Suleyman and his team work tirelessly to expose a shocking tale of corruption, power and betrayal - but not before more blood is shed on these dark and dangerous streets.