Murder on Astor Place is the first book in Victoria Thompson’s Sarah Brandt series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US and Kobo US. I read the first several books in this series way back in paperback days and liked them, but lost track of the series during my transition to e-books, since the […]
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I hadn’t read anything by Laura Lippman in decades (literally), so I was happy to receive a review copy of Lady in the Lake. First, the good stuff! I loved the well-drawn 1960s Baltimore setting, with very different attitudes towards women working, mixed-race relationships, divorce, etc. Although I was only a child then, Lippman’s writing
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Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is the first seven books in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith for £0.99 each. Here is a link to the deal page…
In addition to his much better known science-fiction works, Ray Bradbury also wrote a number of mystery/crime short stories, and Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury collects twenty of those stories together in one volume. And it’s on sale for $1.99 in the US right now… And my thanks to
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Today’s Big Deal (Feb 4, 2023) at Kindle UK is a bunch of crime/mystery books for £0.99 each. No authors or series that I particularly follow, but YMMV… If you want to check it out, here’s a link.
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A hard-to-put-down mix of thriller and police procedural… Alligator Alley starts with a wrenching scene, as we watch a young DOJ agent, Andie Moore, first tailing, and then being caught and killed by two men, in the Everglades. And, as we learn shortly afterwards, the two are DOJ employees themselves – they are FBI agents,
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Open Season is the thirty-fourth and most recent (2022) in Quintin Jardine’s Bob Skinner series. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK right now. Jardine’s books aren’t usually to my taste, but he’s pretty popular, and this is a good price on a most-recent-in-series, so here’s the info… Buy at Kindle UK
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Kind of like cotton candy: lots of fun with no deeper meaning… Aside from the rather macabre origins of the title (we’re told in the author’s note up front that executions in California are on Fridays), Fools Die on Friday is another light, quick read in Erle Stanley Gardner’s Bertha Cool/Donald Lam series. To be
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Killers of a Certain Age sounds like a pretty different kind of thing for Deanna Raybourn, who two main series are historicals. But I’ve liked her Lady Julia Grey series a lot, and the premise sounds fun (sort of a cross between Brian Garfield’s Hopscotch – the movie version – and the recent trend in
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Who’s really the victim, and who’s just “collateral damage”? I had somehow missed out on the last few Ali Reynolds books, so I was happy to receive a review copy of the newest book in the series, Collateral Damage. And I found that all of the elements that I like in JA Jance’s books are
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