The Quick Red Fox is the 4th in the classic (and awesome, IMO) Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. The titles in this series very rarely go on sale in the US – this one was last on sale about 3 1/2 years ago. […]

Tracy Grant has written a very complicated historical series featuring first Charles and Mélanie Fraser, and then later Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch, who are recognizably the same couple, but with different names, apparently due to some publisher disputes. And to make matters more confusing, probably due to the same dispute, some of the books were

I think Robert McCammon is much better known for his horror books, and horror is not really my thing. But on the MobileRead reading group, which is a pretty good group, someone gave a high recommendation for his lesser known Matthew Corbett historical series, and now here is the second book in that series, The

I’ve really enjoyed Ruth Downie’s too-short 8-book historical mystery series. It’s set mostly in Roman Britain, and features army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso and his wife Tilla (who enters his life as a really sick – but also amazingly rude – slave girl, whom he somehow manages to keep alive). In fact, I enjoy Tilla’s

The Last Chance Olive Ranch is the next-to-next-to-most recent (pubbed in 2017, I’m not counting them all to figure out what number in the series it is!) in the China Bayles series by Susan Wittig Albert. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US as of today (May 4, 2021). This is a fun series, and titles

I don’t have time right now to write a series review, but suffice it to say that I really enjoy Simon Brett’s Blotto & Twinks series. (I like his other series too, especially his Mrs. Pargeter series, but this one is first among equals for me…) In lieu of the review, I’ll just say: “imagine

The Herring in the Library is the third in LC Tyler’s Ethelred and Elsie series. I haven’t read this one, but I read and loved the latest book in the series, Farewell My Herring – you can read my review here. I’m now half-way through the first book in the series, and enjoying it, so

The Newbery Medal winning Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US today (May 4, 2021). I remember reading and really liking this when I was a lot younger, and may reread it now. I’m pretty sure old adults can still read young adult books if

I’ve read and liked several of the titles in Peter May’s “Enzo Files” series. Now here’s the latest (March 2021) and possibly last, The Night Gate, on sale in both the US and the UK. The sale price is a lot better in the UK (£0.99 vs $2.99) but either way, it’s nice to see