Rocket to the Morgue is the second in Anthony Boucher’s short two-book Sister Ursula series, written by Boucher using pen name HH Holmes. It’s $1.99 today in the US, and discountable at Kobo. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US (discountable)
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Brunetti is still as awesome as ever… It’s hard to believe that Donna Leon has been writing her Guido Brunetti series since the early 1990s, and although there’s a little bit of variability from title to title (some stand out a little more than others), I’ve read each and every one, and all are excellent.
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A nice start to a spin-off series! I’ve been a fan of Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher series for a couple of decades, but I watch almost no TV. So I barely knew that there was a TV series for the original books, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and was completely unaware that there was also a
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An unusual mix of legal thriller and Golden Age atmosphere… I hadn’t read any books by Phillip Margolin before receiving a review copy of Murder at Black Oaks, and I was surprised to find that he is the author of several mystery series, including this one, which features Robin Lockwood as the protagonist. But my
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Today’s Big Deal at Amazon UK includes the first eight books in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series for £0.99 each. This is a truly awesome (and much awarded) series, so grab any that you need now! Books include: Still Life, Dead Cold (apa A Fatal Grace), The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone (apa A Rule Against
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Today’s Big Deal at Amazon UK includes the six books in Val McDermid’s Karen Pirie series for £0.99 each. Books include: The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, The Skeleton Road, Out of Bounds, Broken Ground, and Still Life. Sale webpage at Kindle UK
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A light-hearted and enjoyable series starter! The Two Hundred Ghost is the first book in Henrietta Hamilton’s Sally and Johnny Heldar series. At this point, Sally and Johnny aren’t yet married, so it’s an origin story of sorts, and other familiar characters (Tim, Father William) make their initial appearances too. And it’s set in one
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Amazon US has a deal going right now for mysteries and thrillers. From the splash page: Limited-time deal: Mystery and Thrillers for $4.99 or less on KindleDeal expires 10/30/2022 11:59pm PDT. Here is a link to the home page for the deal. I haven’t had time to look through it, but will come back and
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A Rage in Harlem, apa For Love of Imabelle, is the first in Chester Himes’ classic noir Grave Digger Jones/Coffin Ed Johnson series. It’s $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Diamond is perhaps better known for his Pulitizer prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, although Collapse is so topical, both for today’s world and some of the countries in it, that by now it may
