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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The Daily Deal today (29 Jan 2023) at Amazon US is 148 non-fiction titles ranging all the way from military history to biographies to mental health to cookbooks – and sadly even one conspiracy theory book. But overall, it’s a good selection, and I spotted several books I already have and have enjoyed, and a
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Today’s Big Deal (28 Jan 2023) at Kindle UK is 15 crime/mystery books for £0.99 each. I myself don’t see any authors/series that excite me, but if you want to take a look, here’s a link to the webpage…
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The Felse Investigations Volume Two, by Ellis Peters contains the fourth – sixth books in Peters’ George, Bunty, and Dominic Felse series. Peters is better known IMO for her Brother Cadfael series, but the Felse series is enjoyable too. The compilation includes: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (apa Who Lies Here?), The Piper on the
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos is $2.99 at Kindle US as part of today’s Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. I remember reading this as a young engineer and finding it both exciting (for what they did) and frustrating (because I was working
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A fun mystery, with a bit of 1940s awkwardness… The Turquoise Shop is the first in Frances Crane’s Patrick and Jean Abbott series, set in a fictional New Mexico artists’ colony, Santa Maria, which has some notable similarities to the town of Taos, where Crane lived. The book was written in the 1940s, and unfortunately
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Not quite as enjoyable as the previous couple of books… Unnatural History is the 38th in Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis series. But it’s only the third that I’ve read, after Serpentine and City of the Dead, since I picked the series up only recently. And, although many of the same enjoyable elements (wonderfully detailed
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