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Really good but also really cheap Kindle reads

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Feenie · 06/04/2020 20:34

Getting through a book a day easily atm and realised it is costing me a fortune Blush

I'll start - really enjoyed Little Friends today - 99p

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QKCTJFR/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

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Feenie · 13/04/2020 22:21

Just finished Fallen Angel - a whodunnit, pretty good, 99p

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07JZ47BQ6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

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bettybattenburg · 10/04/2020 12:25

Lord of the Rings is 99p today.

mary81 · 10/04/2020 12:23

The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth is 1.99 at the moment. Another good psychological thriller.

mary81 · 10/04/2020 12:22

Also just spotted The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware is 99p for a short time. It's another good one.

mary81 · 10/04/2020 12:18

Saving Missy is currently 99p and am loving it.

Annasgirl · 10/04/2020 12:14

@feenie - half way through Apple Tree Yard now and yes it has me hooked. Although I think I want something funny like Standard Deviation when I finish as I was a bit afraid to go on my run alone this morning 😂😂

moobar · 09/04/2020 18:57

Enjoying this thread. Have just got blood orange.

Ah behind closed doors, love that book. Read all her others but nothing matched it. What colour was the room.......Shock

Lurleene · 09/04/2020 18:17
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Lurleene · 09/04/2020 18:16

Something in the Water by Cathetibe Steadman is free on Kindle today. It is a Reese Witherspoin bookclub pick apparently so should be pretty decent for a freebie.

Shepherdspiefortea · 09/04/2020 18:01

Just finished Fallen Angel by Christopher Brookmyre - brilliant. Definitely psychological and family drama.

ritzbiscuits · 09/04/2020 17:53

I've just noticed the first Seven Sisters (Lucinda Riley) is free on Kindle (probably to get you interested in reading the series).

Not read it, but gets recommended regularly. I've downloaded it to give it a try.

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Feenie · 09/04/2020 16:58

Recommendations coming thick and fast now, thanks everyone!

I didn't know you could do that either, rosegold!

Hope you like the Paula Daly series, Annasgirl, let us know.

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Annasgirl · 09/04/2020 16:33

Thanks Feenie.

Yes I’ve read some on the list and will try others. I read the latest Meave Kerrigan this week and then Blood Orange - so I’ve had good luck.

Slightly different but also brilliant is Firefly (Spy novel, brilliantly written) by Henry Porter and his follow up. Also Lullaby.

Off to download that series now, thanks.

rosegoldwatcher · 09/04/2020 16:29

@Feenie - your list is my taste to a T!
A Perfectly Good Man is in my all time top 5. I bought it for a friend's birthday this week and sent the Kindle version through Amazon. They delivered it to her email address and she was able to download it to her Kindle. (You might all know about this service but I have only just discovered it!)
My recommendations are:
The Other Mrs Walker - Mary Paulson-Ellis (£3.99)
The Good Samaritan - John Marrs (£1.99)
Precious Bane - Mary Webb (99p)
Ferney - James Long (£2.99)

Heyduggeefordays · 09/04/2020 16:04

Wall of silence - Tracey Buchanan

ravenmum · 09/04/2020 15:53

I've also just downloaded Edgar Alan Poe, Complete Tales. There are some decent classics free of charge - all the Jane Austens, Dickens, etc.

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Feenie · 09/04/2020 15:48

Have read and also enjoyed from your list:

Behind Closed Doors
My Husbands lies
The Family Upstairs

I did like the John Boyne book!

Just finished Blood Orange - brilliant. I would put it on the same footing as Apple Tree Yard. Bereft now, as all good books should leave you Smile

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Feenie · 09/04/2020 15:45

But I would love to find another series with a female detective / lawyer / pathologist who also has a good back story, preferably set in the UK as books set in Ireland are too parochial for my taste (I can say this as I am Irish) and the US ones never seem relatable.

Read any Paula Daly? Her first four fit your brief and are brilliant.

Cheap recommendations for you:
The Mother I Could Have Been - £1.99
What Have I Done? - £1.89
The Silent Wife - £1.99
The Proposal - 99p
He Said, She Said - £2.99
The Wicked Girls - £2.99
The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood (REALLY good) 99p
Cuckoo £2.99
The Woman Before Me 99p

They are my 5 star good reads that are cheap.

5 star reads not so cheap:

The Lying Room
The Goldfinch
Us
The House We Grew Up In
The Safest Place
Disclaimer
The Unknown Bridesmaid
What She Knew
How to Be a Good Wife
Instructions for a Heatwave
A Tale for the Time Being
Good Me, Bad Me
The Darkest Secret
The Child Inside
A Perfectly Good Man
Missing Persons (Nicci Gerrard)
What She Lost
The Good Father
Whatever You Love
Little Sister

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TabbyStar · 09/04/2020 12:47

Thanks Tayto I'll try that.

Annasgirl · 09/04/2020 12:45

Hi All, I was about to post my own thread looking for recommendations but I see you read the same books as me so I will stay on here.

I love all the books on Maeve Kerrigan; the Ruth Galloway series; I loved Standard Deviation;

I'm reading Apple Tree Yard at them moment but it is no where near as good as Blood Orange or Girl on the Train.

Have you read The Couple next door? The Family Upstairs?

I also loved The Hunting Party and The Guest List.

The Bankers Wife - brilliant
Behind Closed Doors
My Husbands lies
The Wife Between us - excellent

The Thora Gudmundstottir Series is really good too - skandi noir but with a really normal female detective.

So now you know what I love, please can you all send me some great book ideas. Thanks

I also really disliked Normal people and that John Boyne recent book about the writer - and I don't like Tanya French books.

But I would love to find another series with a female detective / lawyer / pathologist who also has a good back story, preferably set in the UK as books set in Ireland are too parochial for my taste (I can say this as I am Irish) and the US ones never seem relatable.

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Feenie · 09/04/2020 09:49

Thanks for the recs, moobar - I found Normal People v slow also, for the same reason, although I did finish it.I

Pleasantville, I like to keep the books I read, therefore Prime is not for me.

I did know you could return Kindle books and have done so once or twice, but can't remember why.

Really enjoying Blood Orange, it's v good.

Keep the recommendations coming please, really useful!

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Taytotots · 09/04/2020 02:36

@TabbyStar there is a way to covert books so you can read on kindle apprenticealf.wordpress.com/. Obviously shouldn't be used for anything but enabling reading on your own device. I don't like reading on my phone/tablet before bed either.