Lady Sings the Blues is Billie Holiday’s autobiography. It’s £0.99 at Kindle UK today (March 24, 2021) as part of the Daily Deal. Buy at Kindle UK
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L.A. Requiem is the 8th in the much nominated/awarded Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series by Robert Crais. And it has a lot of the awards/nominations – per SYKM, it won a Dilys, and was a finalist for six (!!!) other awards. It’s really kind of a classic, IMO. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and
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The Invention of Culture by Roy Wagner is variously described as “one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology” and one of the “few books [in the field of anthropology that] manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance”. And it’s published by University of Chicago Press, which is not a marque given to much
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Both SYKM and the blurb describe The Highwayman, by Craig Johnson, as a novella in Johnson’s Walt Longmire series. However, eReaderIQ shows that it is normally priced at $9.99 and up, and the blurb says it has 202 pages in print, so you can make your own decision… In any case, it has dropped to
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Sarah Hawkswood has written a thoroughly engaging historical mystery, set in England in the 1100s. Lord Osbern de Lench has been found dead, and it’s obvious from the knife wounds that he has been murdered. But who did it? A number of possibilities present themselves, both close-at-hand, among his family, and farther away, in neighboring
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Red Storm Rising is a bit of an odd-ball among Tom Clancy’s books, not just because it was co-written with Larry Bond and isn’t part of the Jack Ryan series. It’s a stand-alone that details what World War III, between the US and Soviet Union, might have looked like, IF (and it’s a big if),
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A fun new spin-off series… Author TE Kinsey has created an enjoyable spin-off series with The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds – the first of what will hopefully be several Dizzy Heights books. Unlike the supposedly quiet country setting for the “parent” Lady Hardcastle books, this new series is unabashedly set in busy Jazz
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Simon the Coldheart is one of Georgette Heyer’s few non-Regency romances, set instead during the Hundred Years’ War. The Open Road-published version of this has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US right now, and it’s discountable at Kobo. Note that there seem to be several versions of this, so make sure you get
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If you’re reading this post, on a website called “Mostly Mysteries”, you are probably already well aware of Ngaio Marsh and her excellent (and classic) Inspector Alleyn series. If not, and if you like Golden Age mysteries, you have a treat coming! Right now, March 16, 2021, the first and the last* titles in the
Fate’s Edge is the third in the Edge series by Ilona Andrews. It’s part of the US Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99, matched at Kobo US. I don’t see titles in the Edge series go on sale very often, so grab it now (March 16, 2021) if you want it. For me, this was
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