Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is is twenty-two books in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson for £0.99 each. Twenty-two books is way too many for me to list individually, so you’ll just have to go look for yourself, but there seems to be a nice mix of older and newer books. Twenty-two […]
Simon Brett is now on his umpteenth new series – this time, the Major Bricket series, whose webpage describes said Major as “[a] not-so-amateur sleuth from a peaceful English village with an alarmingly high death rate”. Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse is the first, and so far, only, title in the series and it’s
Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse by Simon Brett is on sale in the UK right now Read More »
Three of the four books in Emma Jameson’s Benjamin Bones series are either free or on sale in the US and UK right now. I have read almost all of Emma Jameson’s Lord and Lady Hetheridge (Blue) series, and a couple of the books in her Jemima Jago series, and have liked them all. And
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
