I’ve not read this book, The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker, but it seems pretty intriguing – the story of the Trojan war told from the point of view of the women involved, and per the blurb, specially from the point of view of the Trojan queen, Briseis. It also comes pretty well […]
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Silver-Tongued Devil is the first in the Portland Devils series by Rosalind James, one of a very few contemporary romance authors whose books I really like. It’s free right now (May 21, 2021) at Kindle US and UK, probably in honor of the newest book in the series, Devil in Disguise, which is coming out
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Gideon’s Fire is the seventh in the George Gideon series by John Creasey (writing as JJ Marric), which is IMO a great police procedural series. Per SYKM, it also won the 1962 Edgar Award for Best Mystery. And it’s on sale right now at Kindle US for only $0.60. Not just on sale at $0.99
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I’m a huge historical mystery fan, and I’ve had my eye on the Cyrus Barker/Thomas Llewelyn series by Will Thomas for quite a while. So I was happy to receive an advance review copy of the latest title in the series, Lethal Pursuit. I was a little bit nervous starting out with the 11th title
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A nice mix of mystery and science fiction… I’m a big fan of mysteries, and I like to read mysteries set in places that are new to me – or in this case, imaginary places that are new to me! Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells fills that bill quite nicely. Our protagonist, Murderbot, is a
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Ed McBain’s classic 87th Precinct series titles go on sale for $0.99 or $1.99 pretty often, but here are two for less than $0.99, which is much less common… Buy Killer’s Choice, #5 for only $0.24 (!!!! – I wish I didn’t already have it, just so I could buy it for this price!): Kindle
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A Vow of Silence is the first in Veronica Black’s Sister Joan series. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK. I liked the early Sister Joan books I read in paper-book days, so I’m glad to see them coming out in e-book from Joffe Books, who do nice price drops (and freebies)
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I still haven’t gotten around to reading my omnibus of Sookie Stackhouse books that went on sale in the UK a while back, but now (May 17, 2021) a collection of Sookie Stackhouse short stories has popped up there, on sale. The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories, by Charlaine Harris was at £10.99 for a long
I’ve read and enjoyed the first couple of books in Alyssa Maxwell’s Gilded Newport series. Now here is the sixth title, Murder at Ochre Court, on sale for $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK. You can also read my review of A Sinister Service, which is Maxwell’s latest title in her other (Lady and Lady’s Maid) series,
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Robert Kroese’s Mercury series features a journalist, Christine Temetri, whose job it is to report on various purported End Times. She gets very complacent, because all of the supposed End Times turn out to be fake…until one day one turns out to be the real thing. And the real one comes complete with a very
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