I got hooked into reading the first title in this series, Kill the Queen, by its first two sentences: “The day of the royal massacre started out like any other. With me doing something completely, utterly useless.” So you can imagine my amusement when I discovered that the second book, Protect the Prince, starts out: […]
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Kill the Queen had me hooked from its first two sentences: “The day of the royal massacre started out like any other. With me doing something completely, utterly useless.” From this inauspicious beginning, things rapidly go even further downhill for the protagonist, Evie – officially Lady Everleigh Saffira Winter Blair, a very minor royal in
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is the first in the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. I liked this a lot when it came out, and apparently a bunch of other people did too, because it won four “Best First Novel” awards and a Dilys award, and was also a finalist
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Felony and Mayhem Press has the e-publishing rights to two of my favorite authors (Patricia Moyes and Ngaio Marsh), and to several other authors that I like as well. For a long time F&M didn’t put their e-books on sale much, if at all, but recently, they’ve been cycling through putting them on sale, usually
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A wonderful WWII historical mystery…. Ed Ruggero has written a thoroughly enjoyable historical mystery in Comes the War, the second in his Eddie Harkins series. Ruggero is a West Point graduate, Army infantry officer, and, later, West Point instructor; his expertise shows in this tightly written book that will engage readers from the first chapter
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Blood and Circuses is the sixth title in Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher series, set in 1920s Australia. Although I haven’t read this one, I’ve read a few of the other books in this series, and have enjoyed all that I have read. Blood and Circuses has dropped to $1.99 in the US as of today,
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Three – and sadly, only three – of Martin Jensen’s King’s Hounds books have been translated into English, and all three of those are on sale for $0.99 each at Kindle US right now: February 4, 2021. I loved this series, and am pretty mad at Amazon Crossing (Amazon’s publishing arm that translates foreign language
An enjoyable classic English cozy… Murder in the Belltower is the fifth title in Helena Dixon’s Miss Underhay series. I’m a fan of historical mysteries, and have had my eye on this series, for a while. So I was happy to receive an advance copy of this newest book in the series from the publisher
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The early titles in Mel Starr’s Hugh de Singleton series tend to go on sale fairly often, but not so much the later ones. So it’s nice to see the twelfth and next-to-most-recent (2019) in the series, [I]Without a Trace[/I], has dropped to $2.99/£2.19 in the US/UK respectively. I’ve read and really enjoyed the earlier
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The Kindle UK Big Deal for February 3, 2021, is all six titles in the Mickey Haller series by Michael Connelly for £0.99 each, including the most recent, The Law of Innocence, from 2020. Titles include: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal, The Fifth Witness, The Gods of Guilt and The Law of
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