An enjoyable sequel, even if written seven decades later… A week or so ago, I had a fun time reading a new e-reprint of an old classic: David Dodge’s To Catch a Thief, which was the basis for the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. I haven’t seen the movie, but enjoyed the […]
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A classic adventure tale, later a Hitchcock movie… Several months ago, I got a chance to read The Lady Vanishes, which, in its original incarnation, The Wheel Spins, was the inspiration for an Alfred Hitchcock film. I am usually not a big movie fan, especially suspenseful movies, but I surprised myself by really liking that
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A big bunch of titles (maybe a third of them?) in Steven F Havill’s Posadas County series have dropped in the US to $2.99, and a few to $1.99. And they are discountable at Kobo US. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I really like this police procedural series for its enjoyable plots, its nicely developed
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I haven’t read either of the two e-books in Arjun Raj Gaind’s Maharaja Mysteries series, but I tend to like historical mysteries published by Poisoned Pen Press, and now both books are $1.99 at Kindle US, and the first one is also on sale at Kobo US, where it’s discountable. A Very Pukka Murder, #1
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And one more Poisoned Pen Press author on sale after a long time… I very much enjoyed Joanne Dobson’s Karen Pelletier books back when I was reading them mostly during graduate school – the academic background seemed quite appropriate. Now the fifth book in the series, The Maltese Manuscript, is on sale for $1.99 in
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Poisoned Pen Press seems to be feeling their oats right now, and putting a few authors/series on sale that usually don’t go on sale, and are pretty expensive when not on sale. Painted Veil is the second in the historical Tito Amato series by Beverle Graves Myers. It’s on sale for $1.99 in the US,
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The Physicists’ Daughter was one of my four or five most favorite mysteries of 2022, so I’ve been eagerly looking forward to the next book in the series, The Traitor Beside Her. And it doesn’t disappoint! All of the same elements that I loved in the first book are still there in this one, however
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Nice plot and stylish writing, but I couldn’t get into the characters… It’s unusual to find a murder mystery that is so obviously set during World War II that was also written during the war, rather than after the fighting was over. And Christianna Brand’s Green for Danger is one of those books. It was
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A classic psychological mystery… I’m not usually a big fan of psychological thrillers, but even I can recognize that A Gentle Murderer is a classic of the genre. Although it’s actually not clear whether it’s a psychological thriller as much as it’s a psychological mystery, with two different “detectives” on the trail of the man
A fun collection of period short mysteries… Way back in the early twentieth century, Gelett Burgess wrote a series of short mysteries featuring “Astro the Seer”. Astro ostensibly uses his metaphysical and extrasensory talents, such as reading palms, calculating astrological profiles, and feeling magnetic vibrations, to help his clients. But he doesn’t really rely on
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