Another excellent Commissario Brunetti mystery… As usual, Donna Leon has given readers a wonderful mystery in Transient Desires, the thirtieth title in her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. On the face of it, the story starts out as a simple investigation: Who were the two men who sped away in a boat after dropping two badly […]
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A really really good political spy novel, with thriller-ish moments… I don’t read many “thrillers” and I probably would have given Philip Kaplan’s Night in Tehran a miss, except that I read the author’s biography and got intrigued. It turns out Kaplan spent 27 years in the US Foreign Service, rising to the rank of
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All three titles in the first of the Hidden Legacy trilogies by Ilona Andrews are on sale for $2.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US. I would say this is in honor of the next book in the series (part of the second trilogy) coming out, but that’s not going to be until 2022 –
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912, by Donald Keene, is $1.99 as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal for January 22, 2021. For some reason, this caught my eye and looked interesting enough to become part of my non-fiction TBR pile – probably because it’s about a time/place I know very little
The latest title (Jan 5, 2021) in Alice Duncan’s Daisy Gumm Majesty series, Exercised Spirits, has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US. This series seems to have started out traditionally pubbed and moved to sort of self-pubbed, but in any case I have read all or nearly all of the titles in the series and like
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A really good psychological thriller. I just wish I liked psychological thrillers… I had never read anything by JT Ellison, mostly because I’m not a huge fan of psychological thrillers. But I had heard a lot of good things about Ellison’s writing, so when I was offered a review copy of Good Girls Lie by
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A Royal Pain is the second in the Lady Georgie/Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen. This series, featuring Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is almost terminally cute, but somehow I still really like it – it’s a lot of lighthearted fun. A Royal Pain has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and
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Although it wasn’t his first series, the Domesday Book series was the first of Edward Marston’s many series that I read, and it’s still my favorite of his. I have very fond memories of buying the early paperbacks in this series on business trips to the UK, and then pretty much reading them all on
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The Second Mouse is the 17th in the Joe Gunther series by Archer Mayor, a series I’ve mentioned before I think is a pretty nice police procedural series. It is free right now (19 January 2021) at Kindle UK, but not at Kindle US, where it looks like a different edition (Mysterious Press) and it’s $9.99.
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A smooth as silk mystery that kept me reading late into the night… I am not fond of psychological thrillers. And so, having read somewhere that Jonathan Kellerman’s main character in his main series is a psychologist, Alex Delaware, I just sort of wrote the series off, assuming that these were psychological thrillers. And you
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