I read most or all of the books in Valerie Wolzien’s Susan Henshaw cozy series back as they were coming out in paperback years ago. It was one of the earliest cozy series I read, and I have fond, if indistinct, memories of it. I had just finished graduate school at the time, and I […]
The Charity Shop Detective Agency is the first in the The Charity Shop Detective Agency series by Peter Boland. It’s free right now at Kindle US and UK as Joffe’s free mystery of the weekend. But not for much longer, since it’s already Sunday… Free for now at Kindle US | Kindle UK And The Best
As usual, Joffe has a couple of freebies this weekend Read More »
The prolific Edward Marston (pen name for Keith Miles) has written an impressive number of historical mystery series. I’ve read many of his Domesday books, several of his Nicholas Bracewell series, and a few of his Railway Detective books, and liked them all. And, until I looked at SYKM just now, I didn’t realize he
The Frost Fair by Edward Marston is on sale in the UK Read More »
Joffe’s “official” free mystery this Friday isn’t the free MJ Trow title, Maxwell’s House, that I just posted. Although it’s a good one! Instead we seem to have three free books this weekend, not two. And the “official” mystery freebie is Murder in Norfolk, which is the first book in the Anna McArthur series by
Joffe has three free books this weekend – woo-hoo! Read More »
Maxwell’s House is the first in MJ Trow‘s Peter Maxwell (also known as Mad Max) series. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK. This is one of the series that I remember discovering in paperback on business trips to the UK years ago, before e-books, from which I used to come back with half-a-suitcase full
Maxwell’s House by MJ Trow is free right now at Kindle US and UK Read More »
SJ Bennett has a short cozy series featuring Queen Elizabeth II as the detective. The fifth and most recent (2025) book in the series, The Queen Who Came in from the Cold, is on sale at Kindle UK right now for £0.99. Sadly not on sale at Kobo UK, but probably price-matchable… Buy at: Kindle
SJ Bennett’s The Queen Who Came in from the Cold is on sale at Kindle UK right now Read More »
Humble Bundle has a deal right now on science fiction, fantasy, and horror books written by women. LOTS of books. Sixty-five of them, in fact! The way Humble Bundle works is that you can choose one of several different prices, and that determines how many of the items in the Bundle you will receive. In
The first six books in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series are $1.99 in the US and £2.99 in the UK right now. And there are a few scattered later titles at £2.99 in the UK as well. Here are Kindle series pages: Kindle US | Kindle UK And here are Kobo price-sorted links: Kobo US
Some early Kay Scarpetta books by Patricia Cornwell are on sale right now Read More »
This week, The Economist has a nice – and short – article about Agatha Christie and her long-lived popularity. I’m obviously fond of Christie’s books, most of which have weathered the test of time pretty well. (There are a few exceptions, and many of them do read like historical mysteries now…) And most of them
The Economist has a nice article about Agatha Christie out today Read More »
The fourth book for the fourth wife of Henry VIII… You can call me a bit slow if you wish, but even having read two of the three previous titles in Jeri Westerson’s King’s Fool series (see here), it still took me until this current one to realize that there is going to be one
Devil’s Gambit by Jeri Westerson is recently out – a review Read More »
