Price drops on mysteries and other books, both in the US, and the UK. These may be short-lived so grab them if you want them!
Laura Possessed by Anthea Fraser is Joffe’s free mystery/thriller for the weekend. I’ve read only a couple of Fraser’s books, from her Rona Parish series, a couple of decades ago, and have pleasant but vague memories of them. It is a bit odd that the webpage title says it’s part of Fraser’s Detective Inspector David Webb […]
Joffe’s two free books for the weekend are, as usual, a romance and a mystery Read More »
I read Michael Crichton’s first book (writing as himself, at least), The Andromeda Strain, when I was a kid, shortly after it came out, and I remember it was pretty scary then. I re-read it not too long ago and it is still scary now, since a good part of what made it scary was
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is $1.99 today in the US Read More »
Two of the five books in Ron Corbett’s short Frank Yakabusk series were award finalists, including Ragged Lake, which is the first in the series, and, per SYKM, was a finalist for the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Paperback. Ragged Lake is free right now at Kindle US and UK. I haven’t read any books
Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett is free right now at Kindle US and UK Read More »
I read most of William G Tapply’s Brady Coyne series in “real paper book” format a few decades ago, and liked pretty much all of them. And since I was a docent in a local aquarium at the time, Coyne’s near-obsession with fishing for rockfish made me look at our rockfish exhibit in a different
Shadow of Death by William G Tappy is on sale right now in the US Read More »
RadioArchives.com is giving away the downloadable version of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 3, starring Gerald Mohr, for FREE right now. As the blurb says: “Author Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled gumshoe, Philip Marlowe was one of the most popular sleuths in the history of the crime fiction genre. Thrill to 12 half hour fully restored radio
Humble Bundle has a deal right now on 43 books (collections) of Peanuts comics, by Charles M Schulz, for $25. They indicate in the description of the bundle that they’ve “collected every Peanuts comic book and strip into [this] bundle, courtesy of Fantagraphics”. And, as is typical of Humble Bundle, you can choose to
A Humble Bundle of Peanuts comics by Charles M Schulz is available for eight more days Read More »
I went through a James Michener phase in my teens, and read an awful lot of his fictionalized (but sometimes with historical notes at the end) historical novels: Hawaii, Caribbean, The Source, Texas, etc. etc. But somehow I never came across Iberia back then. Maybe it was because it seems to be regarded as non-fiction, rather than a fictionalized historical novel.
James Michener’s Iberia is on sale in the US right now Read More »
Joffe’s free mystery for Friday and the rest of the weekend is Shades of Death. It’s a non-series title by Aline Templeton, who is probably better known for her Marjory Fleming series. Free at Kindle US | Kindle UK And the Joffe/ChocLit free romance for Friday and the rest of the weekend is What Happens
As usual, Joffe has a free mystery and a free romance this weekend Read More »
Sherlock Holmes et les protocoles des Sages de Sion est le quatrième tome de la série des pastiches de Sherlock Holmes de Nicholas Meyer. En ce moment, c’est en vente à prix réduit au Royaume-Uni. Achetez-le chez: Kindle UK, £2,49 | Kobo UK, £2,49
Humble Bundle has a deal right now on 30 books, mostly from the original Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series by Tony Hillerman, but also including all ten (so far) continuation/spin-off books from Hillerman’s daughter, Anne. These mostly feature Bernie Manuelito, but have lots of appearances by Chee, Leaphorn, and others. And the full bundle also includes
Humble Bundle has a great deal on thirty books by Tony and Anne Hillerman Read More »
