I have quite liked the several books I’ve read in Eliot Pattison’s Inspector Shan Tao Yun series – and the first book in that series, The Skull Mantra, won an Edgar for Best First Novel in 2000. But somehow I have never gotten around to reading any of the books in his Duncan McCallum historical […]

Dana Stabenow’s two loosely connected thrillers, Blindfold Game and Prepared for Rage, are both $2.99 in the US right now… Blindfold Game: buy at Kindle US | Kobo USPrepared for Rage: buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

The Anodyne Necklace is the third in the Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes. It’s on sale for $1.99 in the US today. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

I adore the Asterix comics, from back in my middle-school days, when my French teacher assigned some of them to us, to learn vocabulary. He also encouraged us to try to figure out the puns and jokes, some of which are very French, and were hard to suss out, but hilarious once (if) we figured

I’ve always enjoyed reading The Economist to see the news from a non-US viewpoint, even if that viewpoint is usually somewhat loosely aligned. And also just because The Economist‘s reporters are such awesome writers that they can make pretty much anything and everything interesting…😀 Now here’s a book that purports to do the same thing for US history: History

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt is getting on for a decade old, but I re-read it about two years ago, and it still seemed pretty timely to me. It’s £0.99 at Kindle UK today. Buy at Kindle UK

Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, is on sale for $4.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

Murder at Beaulieu Abbey is the eleventh in Cassandra Clark’s Hildegard of Meaux series. I read and really liked the first few books in this series and then just lost track of it. So it’s nice to see the most recent (2021) in the series go on sale for £2.84 at Kindle UK – I’ll