Frederick Forsyth, Diamond Dagger winner and author of The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, and many more, passed away on June 9. The Economist and The New York Times both have nice obituaries. And although he tried to retire in 2016, he ended up writing another book, The Fox, […]
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Elly Griffiths, author of the Ruth Galloway, Magic Men, and Harbinder Kaur series, has started a new series, featuring Ali Dawson (and her colleagues) as time-traveling detectives – dealing with cases so old they have to travel into the past to solve them. I haven’t read The Frozen People yet, but it’s on sale right
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An omnibus of the complete Matthew and Joan Stock historical series (17th century England) by Leonard Tourney is super inexpensive right now – it’s just $1.99/£1.99 in the US/UK. That’s a great price for the eight books, and is still a great price even if you already have a few of them. I remember
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There is a big sale on books by James Lee Burke in the US right now, with many, many titles going for $1.99 each. This is across several series: Dave Robicheaux, several Holland series, some non-series. This is a great chance to plug some holes in what you have, if you’re a big James Lee
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Joffe’s Free Friday book, usually good through the weekend, is A Deadly Arrangement, which is the first in the Flower Shop series by Annie Adams. Per its blurb, this is “a revised edition of The Final Arrangement and Pushing Up Daisies“. Whatever that means. Two short stories combined? Two previous titles for this same book?
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A big batch of Sister Fidelma titles by Peter Tremayne have dropped to £2.99 each at Kindle UK right now. I really really like this series, enough that I made my husband go to Cashel for the weekend a few years ago, when we had a business trip to Ireland. Even though the ruins left
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A cozy romantasy that lives up to its title…. I was caught – there’s no other word for it – by the title of J Penner’s second Adenashire book: A Fellowship of Librarians and Dragons. After all, both librarians and dragons are some of my favorite characters. Now granted, usually the librarians are in mysteries,
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One Deadly Take is, per its blurb, a revised edition of One for the Money, which is the first in DB Borton’s Cat Caliban series. And now One Deadly Take is Joffe’s free Friday book, still free as of now. (But I wouldn’t wait too long to grab it if you want it.) And
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It looks as if someone (the author? someone else?) has gotten the rights back to at least the first few books in the Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne series by David Roberts, which were previously published by Carroll & Graf. And right now the first three titles, issued by a new publisher, have dropped
If romantasy is a thing, romanstery should be too, and Hidden Nature is a great exemplar… If romantasy (a blend of “romance” and “fantasy”) is the hot new thing in genre fiction right now, then I think romanstery (“romance” and “mystery”) should also be a thing. And Nora Roberts has just written a fine exemplar
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