Stargazer is the sixth and most recent (2021) in Anne Hillerman’s continuation of her father’s long-running Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I’m not always fond of continuation series, but this one is pretty well done. Anne has switched the main emphasis of the series to Bernie Manuelito, while […]
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A wonderful mystery that I never knew existed… I wasn’t aware of the short Daniel Valentine/Clarisse Lovelace series back when the four books first came out in “real paper” editions, back in the 1980s. At that time, I couldn’t buy many books (graduate students tend to have limited funds) and I never saw any of
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The Widows of Malabar Hill, apa A Murder on Malabar Hill, is, per SYKM, the much-awarded (Agatha, Lefty, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark) first title in the short four-book Perveen Mistry historical series by Sujata Massey. I’ve read and really liked most of the titles in Massey’s longer contemporary Rei Shimura series, and I’ve also
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Anne Bishop’s books are a little darker than I usually read when I stray from mysteries into urban fantasy, but for some reason, I can’t stop reading them. Now Lake Silence, which is the first in her spin-off “World of the Others” series is on sale in the US ($2.99) and the UK (£1.99). Buy
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Hachette Book Group has a number of mysteries (via several of their imprints) for $0.99 right now… Murder by the Minster by Helen Cox, Kitt Hartley #1Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RDJTPQY/Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-by-the-minster-1 Murder On Mustique by Anne GlenconnerKindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KQ2N7SB/Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-on-mustique-2 Death from a Shetland Cliff, Shetland Sailing #8 (most recent, 2020), by Marsali TaylorKindle
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In UTube – Inspector Mislan and the Emancipatist Conspiracy, Rozlan Mohd Noor has written another excellent police procedural, enjoyable both for the mechanics of the investigation (forensics, leg work, computer savvy – and a bit of luck) and for its detailed background in Kuala Lumpur. And, of course, for its food. It seems there is
London at the turn of the (last) century… I had never heard of Kenneth Cameron’s Denton series, which was a little surprising to me, since I am a big fan of historical mysteries. But I am fond of several other Felony & Mayhem Press authors, so I was happy to receive a review copy of
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If you are lucky enough to live in/visit Canada, or another country with shorter copyright periods (although Canada’s may be going away with the sad renegotiation of NAFTA), then The Maltese Falcon and many (all?) other Dashiell Hammett titles are in the public domain, and you can get them for free from Faded Page, Gutenberg
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Just when you thought you didn’t need any more books/series to read…the Kindle UK monthly deal on crime books appears to be a first-in-series sale. Most seem to be priced at £0.99, some are more. I noticed first-in-series books by: SJ Bennett James Patterson Elly Griffiths Kathy Reichs Donna Leon Mick Herron SW Perry PD
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LOL funny all the way through… I have been quite fond of Simon Brett’s earlier books, especially the Mrs. Pargeter series. So I was intrigued by his Blotto & Twinks series, which looked to be a little different in style – and it was – a lot. The first book in the series, Blotto, Twinks,
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