Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is thirteen Penguin Modern Classics books, with a decided bent towards mystery/spy/thriller titles, for £0.99 each. I’m travelling right now and don’t have time to figure out a Kobo UK link, but I spot checked five of these books and all were also on sale at Kobo UK. And […]
The book that started the Kate Shugak series… Dana Stabenow’s A Cold Day for Murder is the first book in her Kate Shugak series, which now runs to more than 20 titles. And it’s quite a series-starter! Stabenow’s love for her home state shows in her almost lyrical descriptions of Alaska: its vistas, its geology,
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A classic inheritance mystery – set in Japan… Before I read Seishi Yokomizo’s The Inugami Curse, I had previously read one of the few other books of his that have been translated into English, The Honjin Murders. That was a very recognizable classic locked room mystery. (See my review here.) And The Inugami Curse is
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A classic locked room mystery – set in Japan… I’ve read and really liked a few other books from the Pushkin Vertigo line, which, per their website, features “crime writing from across the globe”. So I was happy to receive a review copy of one of their latest titles – an English translation of Seishi
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A fun introduction to the John J Malone series… I had read a few of the John J Malone books by Craig Rice, a long time ago, in tattered paperbacks from the used bookstore, and liked them. So I was pleased to have a chance to review an advance proof of a new version of
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Really sad to see this great series coming to an end… I have very much enjoyed Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series, starting back in the early 2010s when I first discovered it and binge read all of the titles that were already available. After that, of course, I had to wait (not very patiently) as
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Another great title in the Inspector Montalbano series… Note: I’ve been a huge fan of Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series for years, and I was actually reading an advance review copy of The Other End of the Line when I heard that Camilleri had passed away in July, 2019. The Other End of the Line
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An enjoyable Golden Age mystery with some uncomfortable parallels to today… Readers who are familiar with (and like) the Sir John Appleby series by Michael Innes will be happy to see Hare Sitting Up come out in ebook, courtesy of Agora Books. For others, it may a little harder to figure out just quite how
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