Three historical mysteries by John Pilkington are on sale right now in the US and UK

John Pilkington seems to have gotten the rights back to some of his historical mysteries, and now three of them are on Kindle Countdown for $0/99/£0.99 about three-four more days. The Ruffler’s Child, Thomas the Falconer #1Buy at Kindle US | Kindle UK A Ruinous Wind, Thomas the Falconer #2Buy at Kindle US | Kindle

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Not the Ones Dead by Dana Stabenow is coming in April – a review

Back to the awesome Kate Shugak mysteries of old… As Not the Ones Dead opens, a nasty incident involving Kate’s friend, Bobby Clark, one of the few Black men in the Park, makes it obvious that the outside world is tentacle-ing into the Park again in unpleasant ways. And the unpleasantness seems to be spreading.

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Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman – a review

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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A collection of crime stories by Ray Bradbury is on sale in the US right now

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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A review of Alligator Alley by Mike Lawson – coming soon

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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