One of my absolute favorite books of the year… As you can tell from the title of my blog, I mostly read mysteries. But I do dabble a bit in other genres, and when the publisher offered me a review copy of Ann Liang’s A Song to Drown Rivers, it looked intriguing. So I grabbed […]
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A few moments of awkwardness, but overall these stories have aged pretty well… As I mentioned in my earlier review of a recently re-issued Agatha Christie book, it feels presumptuous for me to be reviewing anything Christie wrote. But at the same time, receiving a review copy of Dover’s new e-edition of Poirot Investigates did
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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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If you aren’t lucky enough to live in or visit one of the countries (e.g. Canada, you can search for Faded Page and/or Project Gutenberg Canada) where all of Margery Allingham’s books are in the public domain, you’ll be happy right now because several of her Albert Campion books are $1.99 right now in the
When I first saw the mini-sized cover of this on the Kindle UK Daily Deal page, with the subtitle too small to read, I thought it was going to be a mythology book about the Underworld. Which would have been interesting to me, so I clicked on it, but it turns out that it’s a
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An omnibus of the first three books in Lynda La Plante’s DCI Jane Tennison series is on sale in the UK for £0.99. The books are Prime Suspect, Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd, and Prime Suspect 3: Silent Victims. Buy The Prime Suspect Cases at Kindle UK | Kobo UK
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Although the cover sure looks a lot like the old pulp covers, Five Decembers by James Kestrel came out in 2021, and won the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Novel, and was nominated/finalist for several others. I guess the cover makes sense, though, when you consider that it’s published by Hard Case Crime. It’s on
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The Ellie and Clifford show continues…. I had read and enjoyed a couple of the early books in Verity Bright’s Lady Eleanor Swift series (see here and here), set in 1920s England, but somehow I hadn’t kept track of the series since then. Until, that is, the title of the latest book, Murder on the
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Four Raymond Chandler audiobooks are on sale at Audible US as part of Audible’s “Fall into a New Series” sale, good through September 27, 2024 at 11:59 pm US Pacific time. The T&Cs for the sale note that sale titles may vary based on applicable membership type so YMMV. But for me, the following four
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A nice continuation in the series… I’m a big fan of historical mysteries, and I also like that dry British sense of humor (humour), so I was happy to get a chance to read a review copy of A Witness to Murder, which is the third book in Verity Bright’s Lady Eleanor (Ellie) Swift series.
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