I am not a huge Dune fan – like a fair number of folks, I think, I liked the first couple, and then was sort of meh on the later ones. But some folk really like the series, and now here is an omnibus of the first three books in the series (Dune, Dune Messiah, […]

Uprooted is a non-series title by Naomi Novik (of Temeraire fame). It’s on sale right now in the US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

The Last Graduate is the second book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series. (You may be familiar with Novik from her excellent Temeraire series…) It’s on sale for £0.99 at Kindle UK right now. Buy at Kindle UK

Killer Wedding is the third in Jerrilyn Farmer’s Madeline Bean series. It’s $1.99 right now in the US. Farmer taught a “writing mysteries” class at UCLA Extension a while back, and I was tempted to take the class – not that I want to write a mystery, but more just to learn about how real

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions is the first in the Auntie Poldi series by Mario Giordano. It has dropped to £0.99 right now. I haven’t read any of the books in this series, but it looks as if it might be a Sicilian cousin to Ovidia Yu’s Aunty Lee series, which I really like. Buy

Cleopatra’s Dagger is a non-series title by Carole Lawrence, which, per SYKM, is one of multiple pen names for Carole Buggé. (She’s better known, I think, for her Ian Hamilton/Edinburgh series.) I haven’t read any of her books, but Dagger ticks off a couple of my favorite themes – historical mysteries and Egyptian history -and

Garden of Sins is the sixth and most recent (2022) in Laura Joh Rowland’s Sarah Bain/Victorian mystery series. I haven’t read any of this series, but have really liked the books I’ve read in her Sano Ichiro series – which don’t go on sale often enough! Garden, however, is on sale in the US ($2.99) and

As the blurb on the webpage for The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke says, “Arthur C. Clarke, along with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein, was a definitive voice in twentieth century science fiction.” And now this huge (980 pages) collection of Clarke’s work is on sale for $2.99 in the US, and it’s

Per its blurb, At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today’s Best Writers looks to be pretty much what it says it is. It’s on sale right now for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. The authors of the various stories are listed in the blurb on the webpage. Note that the cover

Goldengirl is an early non-series title by Peter Lovesey, who is better known for his Peter Diamond series, and a couple of historical series, including one I really like featuring Albert Edward (Bertie), the Prince of Wales, as the protagonist. (Although apparently not too many folks liked it, since it only runs to three books