Over the past year or so, Jessie Mihalik made her readers happy by offering a couple of short fantasy/romance stories for free on her website: Books & Broadswords in early 2023, and then later, in early 2024, Rocks & Rapiers. These were web-serials, both set in the same world, but not really linked other than […]
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More suspense with romance than romance with suspense… Mind Games, by Nora Roberts, is only the second “official” Nora Roberts book that I’ve read, although I’ve read many of the Eve Dallas/In Death mysteries that she has published using her pen name, JD Robb. So I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but whatever I
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As usual, there are three Joffe Free Friday books, which are still free as of this morning, Sunday, June 23. No Place to Hide, by Dan Latus, is the first in the Jake Ord series. It looks more thriller-ish than mystery-ish, but WTH, it’s free to try… Free at Kindle US | Kindle UK There is
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I haven’t read any of the Inspector Ruiz books by James García Woods, but it turns out that James García Woods is a pen name for Alan Rustage, who mostly wrote mysteries under yet another pen name, Sally Spencer. (If this seems complicated, here’s a link to Rustage’s SYKM page, which explains all…) And I
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Per an email I received from Oceanview Publishing, The Bucharest Dossier, which is the first book in William Maz’s Bill Hefflin spy/thriller series, is free right now at all the usual places. I haven’t read this series, since I usually don’t gravitate towards thrillers, but have read some other series from Oceanview Publishing, and they
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And now for something a little different… A while back I ended up with a review copy of one of Julie Mathison’s mysteries, The Starlet Letter, and really liked it, even though I hadn’t realized until I was part way along that it was “officially” a YA mystery. After all, who says adults can’t enjoy
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Read this one alone, because you’ll laugh out loud… Simon Brett’s Mrs Pargeter series is my second favorite of his many series. Although sometimes it’s actually my favorite – it all kind of depends on what I’m in the mood for at the moment. But in any case, I was thrilled when Brett picked the
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If you like, as I do, SJ Parris’ historical mystery series featuring real-life monk/philosopher/astronomer Giordano Bruno, you might be interested in the non-fiction book, The Pope & the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition, by Michael White. Even though the title is too long. I’ve
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Joan Hess is, I think, better known for her Maggody/Arly Hanks cozy series than for her Claire Malloy series, also cozy. Personally, though, although both series are fun, I slightly prefer the Claire Malloy books, possibly because I like academic tie-ins, and the Malloy books are set in a fictional academic town. Academic town of
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The Cat Who Sniffed Glue is the eighth in Lilian Jackson Braun’s Koko/Yum Yum/Jim Qwilleran “Cat Who” series. It’s on sale for $1.99 right now in the US. This is a fun cozy series, and one of the earliest “pet” series that I remember. The books in this series go on sale somewhat often, so
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