I read most or all of Roberta Isleib’s Cassie Burdette series, a couple of which were finalists for various awards, in paperback, back when they came out in the early 2000s. And I remember liking them more than most, mostly because I had a friend at the time who had passed on trying to become […]
Preaching to the Corpse by Roberta Isleib is free right now in the US and UK Read More »
Michael Lister’s long-running John Jordan series was liked (many years ago) by a few folks on the MobileRead mystery/thriller discussion forum, where I hang out from time to time. A lot of the titles in that series used to go free pretty often, but I haven’t noticed any in quite a while. Now, however, a
Double Exposure by Michael Lister is free at Kindle US and UK Read More »
Backstage isn’t a mystery, but is a collection of stories by Donna Leon, about Donna Leon, who is, of course, the author of the long-running and awesome IMO Commissario Brunetti series, set in Venice. (You can read some of my reviews here and here and here.) I haven’t read this collection yet, but the blurb
Donna Leon’s Backstage is on sale in the UK right now Read More »
Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is eight Nora Roberts books for £0.99 each. I’m slammed at my (real) job and don’t have time to type out all eight titles, but I did see several from Roberts’ Stanislaskis series, and some from her Stars of Mithra series. I also didn’t have time to check all
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Kobo has a gift card deal going right now, but for only one more day. I don’t need any gift cards right now, so didn’t notice it until now. It’s kind of an intermediate offer – $10 bonus on purchase of $60. Over the past couple of years, their best gift card deals of $10
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Laura Possessed by Anthea Fraser is Joffe’s free mystery/thriller for the weekend. I’ve read only a couple of Fraser’s books, from her Rona Parish series, a couple of decades ago, and have pleasant but vague memories of them. It is a bit odd that the webpage title says it’s part of Fraser’s Detective Inspector David Webb
Joffe’s two free books for the weekend are, as usual, a romance and a mystery Read More »
I read Michael Crichton’s first book (writing as himself, at least), The Andromeda Strain, when I was a kid, shortly after it came out, and I remember it was pretty scary then. I re-read it not too long ago and it is still scary now, since a good part of what made it scary was
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is $1.99 today in the US Read More »
Two of the five books in Ron Corbett’s short Frank Yakabusk series were award finalists, including Ragged Lake, which is the first in the series, and, per SYKM, was a finalist for the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Paperback. Ragged Lake is free right now at Kindle US and UK. I haven’t read any books
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I read most of William G Tapply’s Brady Coyne series in “real paper book” format a few decades ago, and liked pretty much all of them. And since I was a docent in a local aquarium at the time, Coyne’s near-obsession with fishing for rockfish made me look at our rockfish exhibit in a different
Shadow of Death by William G Tappy is on sale right now in the US Read More »
RadioArchives.com is giving away the downloadable version of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 3, starring Gerald Mohr, for FREE right now. As the blurb says: “Author Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled gumshoe, Philip Marlowe was one of the most popular sleuths in the history of the crime fiction genre. Thrill to 12 half hour fully restored radio
