Ilona Andrews have a web-serial up on their blog right now, but likely not for much longer…

In spite of their crazy busy schedules, working on not one, but two, loooong books in their new Maggie the Undying series, the author duo who make up Ilona Andrews have concurrently been treating their fans – of which I am one – to a web-serial, The Inheritance.    Installments have been coming out on

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Steven F Havill’s If It Isn’t One Thing – a review

Steven F Havill is still the master of the small-town police procedural… As I’ve said a time or two before, Steven F Havill’s Posadas County mysteries have been one of my favorite police procedural series, literally for decades.  First Undersheriff Bill Gastner, and now his successor – and protégé – Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, find and

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A review of The Silversmith’s Puzzle by Nev March – recently pubished

Another wonderful trip through the melting pot of old Bombay.   I was lucky enough to have a review copy of Nev March’s first Jim Agnihotri/Diana Framji story, Murder in Old Bombay, back before it was even clear – to me, at least – whether this would be a series.   And I loved that book, but

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The Complete Boysie Oakes Thrillers omnibus is on sale in the US and UK

A friend of mine a while back used to like the Boysie Oakes books by John Gardner, so here’s for them.   Even though they probably already have all these titles .  At this price, though, it could be worth it just for one. The Complete Boysie Oakes Thrillers contains: The Liquidator The Understrike Amber Nine

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Seven Kathy Reichs/Temperance Brennan books are on sale in the UK right now

Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK, good for a few more hours, is seven Kathy Reichs/Temperance Brennan books for £0.99 each. These are price-matched at Kobo UK. The titles are: Deja Dead, #1 Deadly Decisions, #3 Fatal Voyage, #4 Bare Bones, #6 Monday Mourning, #7 206 Bones, #12 Spider Bones, #13 Link to the Big

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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith is free right now in the UK

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, which is the first in Alexander McCall Smith’s identically-named series, is free right now in the UK.    And the next two books in the series are on sale for £0.99 each.   These are not “murder mysteries” or even “exciting cases”, although there are puzzles to solve, and shrewd

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