This thread will post relevant Joffe (and Lume) daily free books for September 2024 – and other Joffe freebies that might come up… And starting it off, for September 1, the Joffe free book is Rollover, which is the first in James Raven’s Detective Jeff Temple series. Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YYJ5CGB Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YYJ5CGB
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A classic Golden Age mystery – with all that entails… I had never realized that AA Milne, of Winnie-the-Pooh fame, had written a murder mystery. And, to be fair, he only wrote one, way back in 1922. But it’s pretty good one: a classic Golden Age mystery, complete with a death in a locked room
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A gaslighting masterpiece from before gaslighting was even a thing… When I got the chance for a review copy of The Lady Vanishes, by Ethel Lina White, I was not quite sure I really wanted to read it. I’m not that much of a movie person, and not much of a psychological suspense/thriller person either.
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Simon Brett has a new-ish “Decluttering” series, with four books so far. And now the first one, The Clutter Corpse, is on sale for $0.99/£0.99 in the US/UK, and discountable at Kobo. I desperately need some help decluttering, and just the other day was eyeing a non-fiction book on how to deal with clutter. But
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The first eight books in Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen series have dropped to £2.99 each in the UK. And the tenth is also £2.99, only at Kindle UK. And there is also an omnibus of the first three titles available for £3.99. These books are brutally expensive in the US, and almost never go on
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I remember reading and liking a lot of Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes series back in “real paper” book days. But I haven’t read any of the three books in his Dr Sally Good series. And now two of the three are on sale for extra nice prices, so I will probably give them a
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Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is nine Dick Francis books for £0.99 each. Titles include: Comeback To the Hilt Flying Finish The Danger Blood Sport Wild Horses Slay Ride Driving Force Break In Sadly, these don’t seem to be price-matched at Kobo UK, at least as of now. Here’s the link to the Big
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I’ve been traveling, so not sure how much longer this will last, but an omnibus of all fourteen books in Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series is on sale for £2.99 (!!!) right now in the UK. That’s less than £0.25 each if you need them all, and it’s still a great deal if you only
It’s nice to have a chance to catch up with John Dee again… Having read and really liked the first book in Oliver Clements’ Agents of the Crown series, The Eyes of the Queen, I was happy to receive a review copy of the latest book in the series, The Queen’s Lies, which just recently
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A nice start to a historical mystery/thriller series… I am a big fan of historical mysteries, so I was happy to have a chance to read a review copy of The Eyes of the Queen, which is the first title in Oliver Clements’ Agents of the Crown series featuring the real-life John Dee – mathematician,
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