Elizabeth Peters is probably best known for her very popular Amelia Peabody series. But, although I love the Peabody series, I’m actually even a tad fonder of both her Vicky Bliss and Jacqueline Kirby series. Now here’s the first title in the Vicky Bliss series, Borrower of the Night, on sale for $1.99 at Kindle […]
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Another first-in-series freebie from Poisoned Pen Press… Murder at the Filmore is the first in the Virginia Holmes series by Zelda White. It is free right now (Feb 20, 2021) at Kindle US and UK. Also, rather oddly for PPP, the rest of the titles in the series are $0.99 each, so if you like
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Really sad to see this great series coming to an end… I have very much enjoyed Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series, starting back in the early 2010s when I first discovered it and binge read all of the titles that were already available. After that, of course, I had to wait (not very patiently) as
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Another great title in the Inspector Montalbano series… Note: I’ve been a huge fan of Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series for years, and I was actually reading an advance review copy of The Other End of the Line when I heard that Camilleri had passed away in July, 2019. The Other End of the Line
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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 was still scary now, since a good part of what made it scary was
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An enjoyable Golden Age mystery with some uncomfortable parallels to today… Readers who are familiar with (and like) the Sir John Appleby series by Michael Innes will be happy to see Hare Sitting Up come out in ebook, courtesy of Agora Books. For others, it may a little harder to figure out just quite how
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Some Felony and Mayhem Press titles on sale, mostly repeats, although I haven’t seen The Book of the Lion on sale before. F&M Press didn’t discount much in the past, but recently has been putting a fair number of titles on sale from time-to-time, but never for very long, so keep an eye for your
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Murder in the Dark is the 16th in Kerry Greenwood ‘s very enjoyable Phryne Fisher series, and it’s $1.99 today (Feb 18, 2021) as part of the Kindle US Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US, where it’s discountable. As always with this series, watch for other editions and/or prior purchases… Buy: Kindle US | Kobo
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Kindle US is having a $4.99-and-under sale on “top history reads” through 11:59pm PDT on Feb 21, 2021. I spotted a couple of books I haven’t read and want to: Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson; and A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th
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Away with the Fairies is the eleventh in the Phrynne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood. Today (Feb 17, 2021), it has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, and even better, it’s discountable at Kobo. Buy: Kindle US | Kobo USNote: this was on sale recently at $2.99, and also there appear to be
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