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All of the books in Deryn Lake’s John Rawlings series are on sale in two omnibuses right now

If you want to read ALL the books in Deryn Lake’s John Rawlings series, now is your chance.   They are all gathered into two omnibuses, which are on sale right now for $1.99/£1.99 each.  They are Kindle Countdown Deals, good for a bit more than three days. I’m not going to re-type a list of […]

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A review of Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver – recently published

A quick and fun read – great for a summer vacation… I’ve read a few books by Ashley Weaver, and have enjoyed them, but hadn’t read any in her Electra (Ellie) McDonnell series.  So I was happy to receive a review copy of Locked in Pursuit, which is the fourth and most recent title.    And

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A review of The Mummy of Mayfair by Jeri Westerson – just published

A fun airplane or beach book… I tend to think of Jeri Westerson as an author of historical mysteries set in medieval England, since I’ve read and enjoyed many books in her Crispin Guest and Will Somers series.   But I’m aware that she writes in other genres too, and was interested to learn that she

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London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People, by Kathryn Warner, is on sale right now

I get an embarrassing amount of the history I know from the “Historical Notes” at the ends of historical murder mysteries 😉. With that said, I do read some regular old non-fiction history from time to time, and I spotted London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People, by Kathryn Warner, a while back, while looking

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Heart of the Nile by Will Thomas is out today – a review

Whose mummy was it, and what was inside??? Heart of the Nile is the second book I’ve read in the Cyrus Barker/Thomas Llewelyn series by Will Thomas, and I liked this one a lot too.  (See my earlier review of Lethal Pursuit here.) As Heart opens, Barker and Llewelyn are approached by the wife of Phillip

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Review of The Two Hundred Ghost by Henrietta Hamilton

A light-hearted and enjoyable series starter! The Two Hundred Ghost is the first book in Henrietta Hamilton’s Sally and Johnny Heldar series. At this point, Sally and Johnny aren’t yet married, so it’s an origin story of sorts, and other familiar characters (Tim, Father William) make their initial appearances too. And it’s set in one

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Review of Murder at Westminster by Magda Alexander – recently published

A fun historical cozy, with a few serious moments… I’m a big fan of historical mysteries, so I was happy to have a chance to read a review copy of Murder at Westminster.  And, even though reading the second book in a series first can sometimes be a bit problematic, I really enjoyed it.  Murder

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Review of Mrs Hudson and the Blue Daisy Affair by Martin Davies – coming soon

What a fun, fun book… The Sherlock Holmes stories were some of the first mysteries I graduated to after Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew, and I loved them.  But I’ve always felt that a lot of Holmes pastiches (Laurie R King’s Mary Russell series aside) fall a little flat.    So I was very pleasantly surprised

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Review of The Pickwick Murders by Heather Redmond – out tomorrow

Doesn’t quite live up to its premise… I hadn’t read any of the previous books in this series, but I usually really like books featuring famous individuals (Queen Elizabeth I, Josephine Tey, Giordano Bruno, Jane Austen, even Agatha Christie herself) as fictional detectives.   So I was excited to try out Heather Redmond’s series featuring a

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Review of The Man Who Wasn’t There by Henrietta Hamilton – just published

Light and fun… In my last review of a Henrietta Hamilton book, I expressed hope that Agora Books would continue re-issuing her books.   And not only have they done so, they’ve even managed to acquire the rights to some of her previously unpublished books, including this one, The Man Who Wasn’t There, which is part

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