A review of A Grave in the Woods by Martin Walker – coming soon in the US

A classic and thoroughly enjoyable Bruno book… I was happy to see that the latest book in Martin Walker’s Bruno series, A Grave in the Woods, was on sale at Kindle UK for a very nice price while I was on a business trip there a few days ago.   And what’s even more amusing and […]

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Over the Woodward Wall by A Deborah Baker (Seanan McGuire) is free in the US right now

Over the Woodward Wall is the first in the Up-and-Under series by by A. Deborah Baker, which is a pen name for Seanan McGuire, whose October Daye series I’ve read and really liked.   And it’s free right now in the US. Free (for now) at  Kindle US  |  Kobo US And the second book in

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A bunch of John Grisham thrillers are on sale at Kindle UK right now

John Grisham is more thriller-ish than I tend to go for, but today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is 10 John Grisham books for £0.99 each, and that may make someone else happy… Titles are: The Judge’s List A Time for Mercy The Whistler Sparring Partners The Reckoning Rogue Lawyer Sycamore Row The Rooster Bar

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A review of Syndicate by Felix Francis – out yesterday

A fun thriller in the classic Francis style… I’ve long liked Dick Francis’ books, which always had some sort of tie-in to horses and horse racing.  And that made for good, usually somewhat thriller-ish, mysteries.  But I liked his books even more for their amazingly detailed backgrounds in a variety of businesses – and most

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A review of the J Alfred Prufrock Murders by Corinne Holt Sawyer – e-book coming soon

This e-book reissue of a 36-year-old mystery is still fun to read…. I had read the eight books in this series in paperback, back when they were written, in the 1980s and 1990s, and liked them all.   Now, I am happy to have received a review copy of a new e-book version of the first

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Crescent Dawn by Clive and/or Dirk Cussler is on sale in the US right now

Crescent Dawn is the twenty-first Dirk Pitt book. Ostensibly, per the webpage and cover, it’s by Clive Cussler with his son Dirk Cussler (not sure who was named after whom), but given that SYKM says that Clive Cussler died in 2020, and that the last few books were already co-written, it seems it really must

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A Very English Murder by Verity Bright – a review

A “modern” classic British murder mystery… I’m a fan of classic British murder mysteries, and of historical murder mysteries.  So I was happy to get a chance to read a review copy of this “modern” version of a classic British murder mystery, which is the first in Verity Bright’s Lady Eleanor Swift series. Although written

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