Grave of the Lawgiver by Peter Tremayne is out today in the US – a review

It’s great to see Fidelma and crew again… It’s hard to believe that Peter Tremayne’s Sister Fidelma series is in its 36th book, and that means I’m really old!   I remember picking up the first dozen or so books in this series in paperback, on business trips to the UK in the 1990s, since they […]

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Six Kosuke Kindaichi books by Seishi Yokomizo are on sale right now in the US and the UK

Six books in the Kosuke Kindaichi series by Seishi Yokomizo are on sale right now in the US and the UK.   These mysteries are so classic in Japan that Yokomizo has a Japanese mystery book prize named after him, which per Wikipedia, includes “a statuette of Kosuke Kindaichi and a cash award of ¥10,000,000, making

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Mrs Pargeter’s Past, by Simon Brett, is coming out soon – a review

We finally get to meet Mr P !!! As I’ve mentioned before, I was thrilled to see Simon Brett start writing new titles in his Mrs Pargeter series again a few years ago, after a pause of about fifteen years.   And I have enjoyed the after-hiatus titles just as much as the pre-hiatus ones.    Which

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The Serpent’s Tale by Ariana Franklin is on sale right now in the US

The Serpent’s Tale is the second book in Ariana Franklin’s Mistress of the Art of Death series.  It’s $1.99 right now in the US.   FYI, per eReaderIQ, this was also previously published as The Death Maze, and it was a finalist for the 2008 Historical Dagger Award.   And for even more FYI, the first book in the

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The first eight Eagles of the Empire books by Simon Scarrow are on sale in the UK today

Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is the first eight of Simon Scarrow’s Cato/Macro (Eagles of the Empire) books for £0.99 each. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I’ve really really enjoyed this series over the years, starting from back when I used to pick up the paperbacks on business trips in the UK because

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Four books in the Digger-Coffin series by Chester Himes are on sale in one omnibus in the US right now

The Essential Harlem Detectives collects four books in the Grave Digger Jones/Coffin Ed Johnson by Chester Himes in one e-volume, and that volume is on sale right now in the US for $1.99.  Which is a great deal even if you only need one or two of the books!  The included books are:  A Rage

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A collection of Mary Norton’s Borrowers books is on sale in the US right now

I remember reading Mary Norton’s Borrowers books when I was young, and liking them a lot.  Now, today, the second book is on sale as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal for $2.99.   But when I went poking around, I also found a collection of the five main Borrowers books on sale for $2.99

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