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!
A bunch of books in the Jack Daniels (Lt Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels) series by JA Konrath are free right now, including the first two, and a bunch more are available for $0.99 each at Kindle US. The first few books in the series were conventionally published, and per SYKM, the first book, Whiskey Sour, was a […]
Rosemary Stevens wrote a number of Regency romances in the 1990s, and then she crossed over and wrote four historical mysteries in the early 2000s, also set in the Regency period, featuring Beau Brummel as the protagonist. She won an Agatha Award for Best First Novel for the first book in that series, Death on
All four books in Rosemary Stevens’ Beau Brummel series are on sale right now Read More »
Kobo usually ties their gift card bonus offers to a holiday, and right now it’s Black Friday. Not totally sure that’s a “holiday”, but it seems to be a good enough excuse for a bonus gift card offer, and that’s a good thing! The bonus offers vary – sometimes $10 on $60, or even
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If you’ve somehow missed trying Martin Walker’s Bruno, Chief of Police series, now’s your chance – an omnibus of the first three books in the series is on sale in the US for $4.99, which is less than $2 a book if you need all three. I’ve been reading this series from the beginning,
As usual for the weekend, Joffe has a couple of free books – one mystery and one romance. What’s not usual is that I’m getting around to posting these sometime before Sunday afternoon. Woo-hoo! These are ostensibly free just for today, Friday, but in practice are usually free through the weekend. You can probably figure out
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I’ve haven’t read this personally, and series-continuations, or in this case, series-interpolations, can be tricky things. But Karla’s Choice, which is set in John le Carré’s Circus universe, and time-wise, in between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, gets pretty good reviews, so I thought I’d post it. It’s
Karla’s Choice, by Nick Harkaway, is on sale today in the US Read More »
Georges Simenon’s classic Inspector Maigret books are being reissued in e-book format, and Humble Bundle has a collection of the first eighteen reissued books for just $18. That works out to just $1 per book if you need them all. (And if you haven’t read any Maigret books, then you definitely need them all
The White Mountain is the 18th and most recent (Sept 2025) in Robert Goldsborough’s estate-approved continuation of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin series. I’ve read several of these follow-on books, and have enjoyed all that I have read. Sure, there are some small differences, but nothing big enough to spoil my pleasure at having a
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The Ambassador’s Wife is the first in the Inspector Samuel Tay series by Jake Needham. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK. I’ve read and enjoyed a couple of Needham’s Jack Shepherd titles, but not any of the ones in this series, so this has reminded me that I’ve got this one
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The Complete Miss Marple Collection by Agatha Christie is $0.99 in the US right now. Per the blurb, this “gathers together all of Agatha Christie’s novels featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple”. And although I haven’t gone through and checked them off one-by-one, it looks to me as if this is all of
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