The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler probably doesn’t need any explanation or description if you’re already hanging out on a site called Mostly Mysteries. But just in case, suffice it to say that (per SYKM) it won the 1955 Edgar Award for Best Mystery. And The Long Goodbye hasn’t looked back since. It’s on sale […]
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The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien probably doesn’t need any explanation, but just in case (!!!), here’s a link to its Wikipedia page. Although I actually have to disagree with Wikipedia, which calls it a children’s classic – I think it’s just a classic. But in any case, The Hobbit is on sale today (March 25,
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Hook or Crook is the 20th in the Keith Calder series by Gerald Hammond. It is free right now at Kindle US and Kindle UK. Free at Kindle US | Kindle UK
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Murder at the FBI, Capital Crimes #6, by Margaret Truman, $1.99: Kindle US | Kobo US (discountable)Cold Case, Carlotta Carlyle #7, by Linda Barnes, $1.99: Kindle USThis Side of Murder, Verity Kent #1, by Anna Lee Huber, $2.99: Kindle US | Kobo US (discountable)Treacherous Is the Night, Verity Kent #2, by Anna Lee Huber, $2.99:
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Lady Sings the Blues is Billie Holiday’s autobiography. It’s £0.99 at Kindle UK today (March 24, 2021) as part of the Daily Deal. Buy at Kindle UK
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L.A. Requiem is the 8th in the much nominated/awarded Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series by Robert Crais. And it has a lot of the awards/nominations – per SYKM, it won a Dilys, and was a finalist for six (!!!) other awards. It’s really kind of a classic, IMO. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and
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The Invention of Culture by Roy Wagner is variously described as “one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology” and one of the “few books [in the field of anthropology that] manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance”. And it’s published by University of Chicago Press, which is not a marque given to much
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Both SYKM and the blurb describe The Highwayman, by Craig Johnson, as a novella in Johnson’s Walt Longmire series. However, eReaderIQ shows that it is normally priced at $9.99 and up, and the blurb says it has 202 pages in print, so you can make your own decision… In any case, it has dropped to
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Sarah Hawkswood has written a thoroughly engaging historical mystery, set in England in the 1100s. Lord Osbern de Lench has been found dead, and it’s obvious from the knife wounds that he has been murdered. But who did it? A number of possibilities present themselves, both close-at-hand, among his family, and farther away, in neighboring
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Red Storm Rising is a bit of an odd-ball among Tom Clancy’s books, not just because it was co-written with Larry Bond and isn’t part of the Jack Ryan series. It’s a stand-alone that details what World War III, between the US and Soviet Union, might have looked like, IF (and it’s a big if),
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