Price Drops

The Golden Tresses of the Dead is the tenth and most recent (2019) in the (excellent IMO) Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. It has dropped to £3.99 at Kindle UK. This is a really enjoyable series set in a 1950s English village, and featuring 11-year old Flavia, who is a precocious junior chemist and […]

I obviously read mostly mysteries, but on the fiction side, I do also branch out into some other genres from time to time. One fantasy series I’ve loved is Trudi Canavan’s Black Magician series, and I also love its follow-on/spin-off Traitor Spy series. Although the books in the first series are usually not too outrageously

A Deception at Thornecrest is the seventh and most recent (2020) in the Amory Ames series by Ashley Weaver. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

Another Garry Disher title is on sale, this time in the US. Under the Cold Bright Lights is a non-series title featuring a cold-case investigator, and per SYKM, it was a finalist for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. It has dropped to $1.99 in the US right now (April 3, 2021).

An Act of Evil (apa The Latimer Mercy) is the first in the Augustus Maltravers series by Robert Richardson. Per SYKM, it won the 1985 New Blood Dagger Award. These books were originally traditionally published, but now have reasonably priced e-versions published by Joffe Books (and also go on sale reasonably often). So if you

Dead Men’s Sandals is the most recent title in David Wishart’s Marcus Corvinus series, which is one of my top five favorite series. However I’ll add a quick note – this series seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it one, primarily, I think, due to his use of “current” and rather snarky vernacular for the dialogue, which

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 Blood and Obsidion series, but haven’t quite made it to reading any of her

Brighton Belle is the first in the Mirabelle Bevan series by Sara Sheridan, set in post-WWII England. I’ve read the first few books in this series and enjoyed them all. Belle has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US right now (April 2, 2021) and it’s discountable at Kobo. Buy at Kindle US |

Riviera Gold is the latest (2020) in Laurie R King’s excellent IMO Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series – at least until a new title comes out in June of this year. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US, which is a pretty nice price for a most-recent-in-series. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US Also, if you want

Ovidia Yu’s short four-book Aunty Lee series, set in Singapore, is a lot of fun. It’s pretty cozy, but occasionally tackles some difficult subjects, like the difficulties experienced by “guest workers” in Singapore. Although Yu has now moved on to writing her somewhat more serious and also very enjoyable Su Lin/Crown Colony series, I still