Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is thirteen Penguin Modern Classics books, with a decided bent towards mystery/spy/thriller titles, for £0.99 each. I’m travelling right now and don’t have time to figure out a Kobo UK link, but I spot checked five of these books and all were also on sale at Kobo UK. And […]
Dead Hill is the first in the DCI Jack Harris series by John Dean. It’s free right now at Kindle US and UK as Joffe’s Free Friday book, still good as of Sunday, US time. Free (for a few more hours) at Kindle US | Kindle UK
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Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is the first six titles in Gyles Brandreth’s Victorian Murder Mystery series, on sale for £0.99 each. I haven’t read any of these books, which were originally published by Touchstone (part of Simon & Schuster) and are now published by Hodder & Stoughton (part of Hachette UK). So YMMV.
A totally wonderful sequel… Martha Wells’ Witch King was one of my favorite reads of 2023, and apparently, based on its long list of awards, it was the favorite of lots of other folks too. And I’m always a little bit nervous that the second book in a series may not live up to the
A review of Queen Demon by Martha Wells – out today Read More »
It’s great to see Fidelma and crew again… It’s hard to believe that Peter Tremayne’s Sister Fidelma series is in its 36th book, and that means I’m really old! I remember picking up the first dozen or so books in this series in paperback, on business trips to the UK in the 1990s, since they
Grave of the Lawgiver by Peter Tremayne is out today in the US – a review Read More »
Hotel Ukraine is the final Arkady Renko book from Martin Cruz Smith, who, per SYKM, passed away earlier this year. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK, as part of today’s Daily Deal. It hasn’t dropped yet at Kobo UK, but since it’s only just past midnight right now in the UK, it probably will later
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Six books in the Kosuke Kindaichi series by Seishi Yokomizo are on sale right now in the US and the UK. These mysteries are so classic in Japan that Yokomizo has a Japanese mystery book prize named after him, which per Wikipedia, includes “a statuette of Kosuke Kindaichi and a cash award of ¥10,000,000, making
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We finally get to meet Mr P !!! As I’ve mentioned before, I was thrilled to see Simon Brett start writing new titles in his Mrs Pargeter series again a few years ago, after a pause of about fifteen years. And I have enjoyed the after-hiatus titles just as much as the pre-hiatus ones. Which
Mrs Pargeter’s Past, by Simon Brett, is coming out soon – a review Read More »
The Serpent’s Tale is the second book in Ariana Franklin’s Mistress of the Art of Death series. It’s $1.99 right now in the US. FYI, per eReaderIQ, this was also previously published as The Death Maze, and it was a finalist for the 2008 Historical Dagger Award. And for even more FYI, the first book in the
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Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is the first eight of Simon Scarrow’s Cato/Macro (Eagles of the Empire) books for £0.99 each. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I’ve really really enjoyed this series over the years, starting from back when I used to pick up the paperbacks on business trips in the UK because
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