I went through a James Michener phase in my teens, and read an awful lot of his fictionalized (but sometimes with historical notes at the end) historical novels: Hawaii, Caribbean, The Source, Texas, etc. etc. But somehow I never came across Iberia back then. Maybe it was because it seems to be regarded as non-fiction, rather than a fictionalized historical novel. […]
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Many years ago, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, James Yaffe wrote a really fun series featuring Dave as the official protagonist. Dave is a former NY policeman who moves west after his wife passes away, and takes a job working for the public defender in a small town in Colorado. But perhaps more
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Joffe’s free mystery for Friday and the rest of the weekend is Shades of Death. It’s a non-series title by Aline Templeton, who is probably better known for her Marjory Fleming series. Free at Kindle US | Kindle UK And the Joffe/ChocLit free romance for Friday and the rest of the weekend is What Happens
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Sherlock Holmes et les protocoles des Sages de Sion est le quatrième tome de la série des pastiches de Sherlock Holmes de Nicholas Meyer. En ce moment, c’est en vente à prix réduit au Royaume-Uni. Achetez-le chez: Kindle UK, £2,49 | Kobo UK, £2,49
Humble Bundle has a deal right now on 30 books, mostly from the original Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series by Tony Hillerman, but also including all ten (so far) continuation/spin-off books from Hillerman’s daughter, Anne. These mostly feature Bernie Manuelito, but have lots of appearances by Chee, Leaphorn, and others. And the full bundle also includes
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Jigsaw is the forty-first and most recent (Feb 2026) in Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis series. And it’s £0.99 right now in the UK. This is amazingly soon for this to go on sale, and almost certainly will only be for today, so grab it now if you want it! Buy at Kindle UK |
Jigsaw, by Jonathan Kellerman, is on sale in the UK today Read More »
As usual, both a mystery and a romance from Joffe Books for Friday. But in practice, usually for the whole weekend… Man on Ice is the first in the Rake Ozenna series by Humprey Hawksley Find it free at Kindle US | Kindle UK Spring at Taigh Fallon is the first in the Tempest Sisters
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As usual these days, Joffe Books have two freebies this weekend – a mystery and a romance. Also as usual, you can guess which is which 😁! Murder in Northumbria, apa In the Family, is the first in the Pen Darling series by Martyn Taylor Free at Kindle US | Kindle UK Last Dance, Second
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Blackwater Sound is the seventh in the Thorn series by James W Hall. Per SYKM, it won the 2003 Shamus Award for Best Novel. And it’s free right now at Kindle US and UK. Books in this series go free or on sale from time-to-time. Not often, and you need patience, but I now have about half
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Back in the early 2000s, I read a few of the mysteries in the semi-historical Fools’ Guild series by Alan Gordon, as “real paperbacks”, and I have warm but vague memories of them. My memories are certainly too vague to spend $12.99 and up for e-book versions of backlist titles that are more than a
Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon is on sale in the US and UK right now Read More »
