Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia by Riaz Dean is on sale today at Kindle US

As I’ve mentioned before a time or two, I’m a huge fan of the Great Game period of history, and now here is Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia, by Riaz Dean, on sale at Kindle US for $2.99, as part of today’s Daily Deal. I’m not sure how well

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Heretics by Leonardo Padura is on sale in the US and the UK and Havana Red is on sale in the US

The first few titles in Leonardo Padura’s Mario Conde series used to go on sale fairly often. I haven’t noticed them on sale as much recently, but now here is the eighth book in the series, Heretics, on sale in both the US ($1.99) and the UK (£1.99), and it’s discountable at Kobo. Note that

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Rehearsing For Death, apa Peckover Joins the Choir, by Michael Kenyon is free right now in the US and UK

Rehearsing For Death, which seems to be a re-titling of Peckover Joins the Choir, is the seventh in the Inspector Peckover series by Michael Kenyon. It’s bad enough when there are different editions of the same book, so it doesn’t necessarily show up that you’ve bought it before. It’s even worse when they change the

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The Body in the Belfry and The Body in the Attic by Katherine Hall Page are $1.99 in the US right now

The Body in the Belfry is the first in the Faith Fairchild series by Katherine Hall Page (although IMS there is also at least one prequel). It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I read most of the early part of this series back in “real-paper” book days, and really liked the

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The Sanctuary Murders by Susanna Gregory is $0.99 right now in the US

The Sanctuary Murders is the 24th and most recent (2019) in the Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I like historical mysteries a lot, so I’m a bit biased, but I’ve enjoyed several of the earlier titles in this series. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

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Coming soon: Castle Shade by Laurie R. King – a review

I’ve very much enjoyed Laurie R King’s Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series over the years, so I was happy to receive an advance review copy of the latest title in the series, Castle Shade.  It’s set in Roumania (modern Romania) in the 1920s, while political and territorial currents are still swirling in the aftermath

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