Patricia Finney writes the Sir Robert Carey series under her pen name PF Chisholm. I am quite fond of that series and have enjoyed it a lot over the years. She also has written a different short three-book series, featuring Simon Ames and David Becket, set in roughly the same time frame, using her real […]

A very rare price drop in the US on a title in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald, Pale Gray for Guilt… Pale Gray is the ninth title in the series, and it’s on sale for $2.99. McGee titles don’t stay on sale very long, and are outrageously priced – all but one

Two Newbery Medal winners are on sale today (March 5, 2021) for $2.99 each as part of the Kindle US Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes: Kindle US | Kobo US The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare: Kindle US | Kobo US

Five of the six books in Phiip Gooden’s Nick Revill historical mystery series have dropped to £1.99 each at Kindle UK, except for the first one, which is £2.99. This is pretty odd – usually publishers discount the first one, to get you hooked, rather than making it more expensive. But what do I know?

And yet another Zelda White/Virginia Holmes/Poisoned Pen Press freebie…with patience, we may get them all… This is odd behavior for PPP, but I’m not complaining! The Vanishing Spy is #2 in White’s Virginia Holmes series and it’s free right now (March 4, 2021) at Kindle US and UK free at Kindle US | Kindle UK

The Price of Freedom is the 17th and next-to-most-recent in the Libertus series by Rosemary Rowe. The books in this series, set in Roman Britain, used to be hard to find in the US in paper-publishing days. So I’d buy them in the UK, when I used to have business trips there, and read them

Shell Game is the next-to-most-recent (if you don’t count a book of short stories) in the excellent IMO VI Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky. Per SYKM, it won the 2019 Sue Grafton Award. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. Buy: Kindle UK

Blood Feud is the first in Mike Lupica’s continuation of Robert B. Parker’s Sunny Randall series. I haven’t read any of Lupica’s Sunny Randall continuation books, but FWIW I did read the first (Fool’s Paradise) in his continuation of Parker’s Jesse Stone series, and enjoyed that one. Blood Feud has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle

A few interesting (to me, at least) price drops, but I’m slammed for time, and can’t do individual posts… The Missing Corpse, fourth in the Brittany series, by Jean-Luc Bannalec, $2.99; I’ve liked all the titles I’ve read in this series, although I’m a little biased since I love France and books set in France…

The First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer is just £1.99 at Amazon UK right now, March 1, 2021. It contains the first three books in the wonderful Rumpole series: Rumpole of the Bailey, The Trials of Rumpole, and Rumpole’s Return. This title has been as low as £0.99 in the not-too-distant past, but that was for a VERY short time,