Bangkok 8 is the first in John Burdett’s Sonchai Jitpleecheep, set in Thailand. It’s on sale right now in the US for $1.99. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

I’ve liked Susannah Nix’s Chemistry Lessons romance series (helped by the fact that I’m a nerd at heart), and now here is a novella for free in one of her other series, the Starstruck series. Star Bright is free in both the US and UK right now. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US |

A Necessary Evil is the second in the Captain Sam Wyndham/Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee series by Abir Mukherjee. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. Buy at Kindle UK

Death at the Crystal Palace is the fifth in Jennifer Ashley’s Below Stairs historical mystery series. I haven’t read any of this series, but have read and liked most of her Captain Lacey series, published under the pen name, Ashley Gardner. Crystal Palace has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK right now… Buy at Kindle

Delphi are offering eleven free books for the US 4th of July holiday. The freebies are: McTeague by Frank NorrisWalden by Henry David ThoreauAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserEthan Frome by Edith WhartonThe Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories by Bret HarteThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Magnificent Ambersons by Booth

In what may or may not be the start of a new series (but probably is, since the tagline on the title is “A New Adventure Begins” 😊), The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich is £0.99 at Kindle UK today. Oh, and once I read the blurb, it confirms it’s the start of a new

Over in the audiobook thread on the MobileRead forums, which I follow, @skinmaan posted two free audiobooks, offered by Simon & Schuster, which are sort of self-help/conflict resolution books. The email @skinmaan received indicated they are being offered for free right now in light of current polarization in the US. I’m a bit skeptical this

I’ve read and liked Roger Crowley’s history of Venice (City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas), but haven’t read his book about the fall of Constantinople, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. Still, I would imagine it’s pretty good, and it has dropped to $1.99 at

I’ve read and liked most of the titles in Jeri Westerson’s Crispin Guest medieval mystery series, which used to be pretty reasonably priced years ago, but are pretty expensive these days – mostly $9.99 and up. But two of the early books are on sale in the US for $2.99 each right now. The Demon’s