The Breton setting would be enough, but there’s a fine mystery too… I’ve read most of the titles in Jean-Luc Bannalec’s Commissaire Dupin series – at least, most of those that have been translated into English. And I’ve liked all that I’ve read. After all, what’s not to like about gorgeous countryside, wonderful food, Breton […]
An Island of Suspects by Jean-Luc Bannalec – a review Read More »
Always happy to read mysteries set in ancient Egypt… I am pretty much a huge fan of mysteries set in Egypt, whether they are set in the British “protectorate” era (like Michael Pearce’s Mamur Zapt series), or in truly ancient times (too many series to name, but T Lee Harris’ Huti/Neffi series, Lynda S. Robinson’s
A review of Abduction of a Slave by Dana Stabenow – recently published Read More »
The first three books and the most recent two books in the Peter Maxwell series by MJ Trow are on sale for various prices at Kindle US and UK. And the other books in the long-ish series are mostly £2.99 in the UK, so if you like the first few, and live in or visit
Several books in the Peter Maxwell series by MJ Trow are on sale in the US and UK Read More »
Joffe’s Free Friday book this week (usually free through the weekend) is Seven Days to Die, by Michelle Kidd. It’s the first in her Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh series, and the blurb notes that it’s “a completely revised version of Seven Days“. I haven’t read any of Kidd’s books, so can’t offer an opinion, but
Seven Days to Die, by Michelle Kidd, is free right now in the US and UK Read More »
An enjoyable sequel, even if written seven decades later… A week or so ago, I had a fun time reading a new e-reprint of an old classic: David Dodge’s To Catch a Thief, which was the basis for the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. I haven’t seen the movie, but enjoyed the
A review of To Catch a Spy by Mark Oneill – just published Read More »
A classic adventure tale, later a Hitchcock movie… Several months ago, I got a chance to read The Lady Vanishes, which, in its original incarnation, The Wheel Spins, was the inspiration for an Alfred Hitchcock film. I am usually not a big movie fan, especially suspenseful movies, but I surprised myself by really liking that
To Catch a Thief by David Dodge is out in reprint – a review Read More »
Joffe has two free books this Friday: The Cold Call Killer by Emmy Ellis is the first in the DI Bethany Smith series. Buy at Kindle US | Kindle UK The Birthday Mystery is the first in the Jenny Starling/Travelling Cook series by Faith Martin. Buy at Kindle US | Kindle UK
Two free mysteries from Joffe Books today Read More »
A worthy and wonderful sequel… A few months ago, I was lucky enough to read the first book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s Shadow of the Leviathan series, The Tainted Cup. And I fell in love with it. Which was both awesome and slightly scary: awesome, of course, because I got to read a great book;
A review of A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett – just published Read More »
I Married a Dead Man is an non-series title by Cornell Woolrich. Per the blurb for the US edition, it was the basis for two films: Original Sin, starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas, and No Man of her Own, starring Barbara Stanwyck and John Lund. But it’s the UK Penguin Modern Classics edition that
I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich is on sale in the UK right now Read More »
Nancy Bilyeau’s three Genevieve Planché historical mysteries, two older and one not-yet-out, are all on sale for $0.99/£0.99 right now in the US/UK. The email I got from Joffe books with the sale info indicates the prices will be good for this week only… The Blue, #1 Buy at Kindle US | Kindle UK
