Some people probably won’t ever relax, even if they think they want to… Author duo Ilona Andrews have written a follow-on novella featuring Kate Daniels, set about eight years after Magic Triumphs, which is the last formal book in Kate’s series. The new story, Magic Tides, takes place in Wilmington, NC, where Kate has moved […]
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An enjoyable sequel to the first in the series… Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame is a follow-on to Meg Long’s previous book, Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, and several key characters appear in both books, including Sena and Iska (the protagonists of the first book), and Remy, who is the main focus of
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The book that started the Kate Shugak series… Dana Stabenow’s A Cold Day for Murder is the first book in her Kate Shugak series, which now runs to more than 20 titles. And it’s quite a series-starter! Stabenow’s love for her home state shows in her almost lyrical descriptions of Alaska: its vistas, its geology,
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A fun collection of period short mysteries… Way back in the early twentieth century, Gelett Burgess wrote a series of short mysteries featuring “Astro the Seer”. Astro ostensibly uses his metaphysical and extrasensory talents, such as reading palms, calculating astrological profiles, and feeling magnetic vibrations, to help his clients. But he doesn’t really rely on
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The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal is, per its blurb, a science-fictional twist on The Thin Man, and it’s on sale for $2.99 in the US. I’ve really liked some mysteries set in sci-fi settings, like Isaac Asimov’s Elijah Baley books, and Martha Wells’ Murderbot series. So I have my fingers crossed for this one!
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Per the Publishers Weekly blurb on its webpage, Mike Hammer: Murder Never Knocks is the ninth Mike Hammer book produced by Max Allan Collins’ “posthumous collaboration with Spillane”. And Collins is, of course, a pretty well known author in his own right, and again per the webpage, is also Spillane’s literary executor. So you can
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The first book in Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar series, Deal Breaker, is on sale for $2.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. I’ve never managed to get hooked on this series, but I know a lot of folks are, so here are links… Buy at Kindle US |
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Where it used to be just Inspector Ghote, there seem to be an increasing number of series set in India – mostly historical, but a few recent as well: Barbara Cleverly’s Joe Sandilands series, Nev March’s Jim Agnihotri books, Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry series, Vaseem Khan’s Malabar House series, Abir Mukherjee’s Wyndham/Banerjee books, Nev March’s
The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra is on sale in the US today Read More »
Every Cloak Rolled In Blood is the most recent (2022) in James Lee Burke’s Holland family series. It’s £0.99 at Kindle UK right now. Buy at Kindle UK
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Chris Behrsin’s A Cat’s Guide to Bonding with Dragons was free a while back, and it looked kind of fun, and I’m not above reading a YA title now and then, and so I grabbed it and read it and enjoyed it. I then got distracted by some other books in my TBR pile, so
