Price Drops

The Univesity of Chicago offers one book each month for free. IMO, they’ve ranged from awesome to kind of odd, but always have provoked a bit of thought. This month’s book (Nov 2021) is Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet by Sarah Elton, which appears to be pretty much what you might guess from the […]

The Maggie Sullivan Mysteries Books 1-4 is pretty much what it says it is – an omnibus of the first four titles in the Maggie Sullivan series by M. Ruth Myers. I’ve read and enjoyed a couple of these, so I’m glad to see the omnibus on sale in both the US ($1.99) and UK

Slough House is the 7th and most recent (2021) in Mick Herron’s, well, Slough House series. Usually it’s the first book in a series that carries the name of the series – I have no idea why it has taken him seven books ?. Slough House is £0.99 today as part of the UK Kindle

Although this isn’t technically a mystery, it won a CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction, and looks quite interesting, especially for folks who like forensic mysteries. Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind, by Sue Black, is a forensic anthropologist’s view of our body’s bones. Per the blurb: “What we eat, where we

Six books in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series are on sale for $2.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US. At Kindle US, they are part of the “Halloween Week” sale, ending 31 Oct, so the prices will probably be good through then at both Kindle and Kobo. As usual, though, if you really want any

On the way to other things, I noticed an anthology of three stories by Aliette de Bodard, set in the world of her book The House of Shattered Wings, which goes on sale pretty often. I’ve read and really enjoyed her Obsidian and Blood series, but haven’t quite made it to reading any of her

Almost all of the nine books in Nicola Upson’s series featuring Josephine Tey – yes, that Josephine Tey – as the protagonist have dropped to £0.99 each at Kindle UK. The only ones that haven’t are the third (Two for Sorrow, £3.99) and the upcoming tenth one, Dear Little Corpses, £4.31, which is due out

The first holiday-themed mystery I’ve seen go on sale this season. I’m sure there will be a lot more! The Gingerbread Cookie Murder (complete with Santa cookie on the cover and recipes inside) has dropped to $1.99 right now at Kindle US. It is actually a collection of three holiday themed novellas by Joanne Fluke,

More decades ago than I care to remember, Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown got me started on mysteries. And now the first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene, is on sale at Kindle and Kobo US for $1.99, and priced at £1.49 in the UK. Sadly, with one exception,