The case that doesn’t stop metastasizing… One of the things I love about police procedurals is the way that the detectives typically don’t get to concentrate on one case at a time. This seems to me to be a lot like real life. After all, who among us is lucky enough to get to think …
Review of Fall Guy by Archer Mayor – coming soon Read More »
Peacocks and weddings and some not-so-cold crime… The Meg Langslow series is one of a very few series that I have to read by myself, because I end up unexpectedly laughing out loud at least a couple of times in every book – and often more than a couple! And in Round Up the Usual …
Review of Round Up the Usual Peacocks by Donna Andrews – recently published Read More »
Still a great series! I read and really enjoyed a bunch of the early titles in this series, published back in the early 2000s. Then, between kid-raising and stressful job and a bunch of other stuff, I sort of lost track of this series, so I was happy to receive a review copy of Terns …
The Key to Rebecca is a non-series thriller by Ken Follett. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US
I haven’t read either of ML Huie’s two Livy Nash books, but the short series looks interesting (including Ian Fleming as a character), and has pretty decent ratings. And the first one, Spitfire, is on sale for $1.99/£1.58 in the US/UK right now. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US | Kindle UK
I’m not a huge Patricia Highsmith fan, but lots of folks are, so… Highsmith’s classic Strangers on a Train, which was a finalist for the 1951 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, is on sale at Kindle UK for £0.99. Buy at Kindle UK
I’ve not read Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series, but the blurb for the first book indicates it won the Printz Award for literary excellence in young adult literature, and also was a Time Best YA Book of All Time in 2021. And all three of the books in the series are on sale …
All three Arc of a Scythe books by Neal Shusterman are on sale today in the US Read More »
Icon is a non-series title by Frederick Forsyth. It’s £0.99 at Kindle UK right now, but more importantly, although Forsyth is known for his thrillers, this is listed as the #1 best seller in “Call Centre Management”. Gotta love Amazon’s genres sometimes… Buy at Kindle UK
While on the way to other things (looking for a Martha Wells book), I noticed that the short story collection, Take Us to a Better Place, is free in English and Spanish (Llévanos a un lugar mejor), both in the US and the UK. It’s themed around “well-being and the future of health and the …
Take Us to a Better Place is free in English and Spanish in the US and the UK Read More »
I read and enjoyed How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett a while back, so now I’m happy to see her newest book, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain, on sale for $1.99 in the US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US
