Three of Ian Sansom’s books are on sale in the US right now: The Case of the Missing Books, Mobile Library, #1, $0.99 Buy at Kindle US The Bad Book Affair, Mobile Library, #4, $0.99 Buy at Kindle US Death in Devon, County Guides, #2, $1.99 Buy at Kindle US
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As I’ve mentioned a time or two or two dozen, I am a big fan of historical mysteries, and one of my favorite time periods is ancient Egypt. And one of my favorite series is Lauren Haney’s 8-book Lieutenant Bak series, set in the time of the Pharaoh Hatshepsut, and published in the late 1990s
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If you like, as I do, SJ Parris’ historical mystery series featuring real-life monk/philosopher/astronomer Giordano Bruno, you might be interested in the non-fiction book, The Pope & the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition, by Michael White. Even though the title is too long. I’ve
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I read and really liked Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s Thóra Gudmundsdottir series many many years ago. I enjoyed the glimpses of ordinary life in Iceland, which provided the settings behind the sometimes slightly gruesome events in the books, and also liked Thóra’s persistence and logic. And now the first book in the series, Last Rituals, is on
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Ted Sorensen’s classic biography of John F Kennedy, which I’ve read and really enjoyed, is on sale at Kindle US for $2.99. For me, this biography really helped fill some of the holes in my formal history education, since my rather dated high-school World History textbook stopped just after the Korean conflict (betraying my age),
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