Six books in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series are on sale for $2.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US. At Kindle US, they are part of the “Halloween Week” sale, ending 31 Oct, so the prices will probably be good through then at both Kindle and Kobo. As usual, though, if you really want any […]
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Doesn’t quite live up to its premise… I hadn’t read any of the previous books in this series, but I usually really like books featuring famous individuals (Queen Elizabeth I, Josephine Tey, Giordano Bruno, Jane Austen, even Agatha Christie herself) as fictional detectives. So I was excited to try out Heather Redmond’s series featuring a
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A welcome return to the Kinsmen series… Author duo Ilona Andrews have returned to their Kinsmen universe after a decade or so, and it’s a shame they stayed away so long. Fated Blades is a long novella – or is it a short book? You pick! But either way, it’s a fast-paced and fun tale
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On the way to other things, I noticed an anthology of three stories by Aliette de Bodard, set in the world of her book The House of Shattered Wings, which goes on sale pretty often. I’ve read and really enjoyed her Obsidian and Blood series, but haven’t quite made it to reading any of her
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Almost all of the nine books in Nicola Upson’s series featuring Josephine Tey – yes, that Josephine Tey – as the protagonist have dropped to £0.99 each at Kindle UK. The only ones that haven’t are the third (Two for Sorrow, £3.99) and the upcoming tenth one, Dear Little Corpses, £4.31, which is due out
The first holiday-themed mystery I’ve seen go on sale this season. I’m sure there will be a lot more! The Gingerbread Cookie Murder (complete with Santa cookie on the cover and recipes inside) has dropped to $1.99 right now at Kindle US. It is actually a collection of three holiday themed novellas by Joanne Fluke,
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More decades ago than I care to remember, Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown got me started on mysteries. And now the first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene, is on sale at Kindle and Kobo US for $1.99, and priced at £1.49 in the UK. Sadly, with one exception,
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If I hadn’t already known I was reading an English translation of a French murder mystery, I would have figured it out anyway by the fourth paragraph of The Sleeping Car Murders. That’s the paragraph where Pierre, the railroad employee whose job it is to check over the just-arrived Phocéen train, and thus the man
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I read and enjoyed John Julius Norwich’s A Short History of Byzantium in real-paper format several years ago, in the run-up to a combination work/vacation trip to Istanbul. I really enjoyed it, but at around 500 pages, it wasn’t particularly short (!!!), nor was it very convenient to carry around. So I’m really happy to
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If you would rather read your Bond than watch him, a couple of the original Ian Fleming books are nicely priced in the US right now. You Only Live Twice is the twelfth book in the series and it’s $0.99 today. And The Man with the Golden Gun is the thirteenth and it’s $1.42. (Weird
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