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

Two titles in Vaseem Khan’s Baby Ganesh Agency series, The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star and Murder at the Grand Raj Palace, are on sale for $1.99 each in the US right now. I’ve read a couple of books in this series, and liked them, so am happy to see these two on sale!

Blonde Faith is the 11th in the much nominated/awarded Easy Rawlins series by Walter Mosley. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F Walter is $2.99 today as part of today’s US Kindle Daily Deal, and price matched at Kobo US. Here are links to a couple of reviews of the book, one generally positive from the New York Times, and one that is less so,