Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK is seventeen (count ’em) books in the Horrible Histories series by Terry Deary for £1.29 each. I used to buy these on business trips to the UK, and bring them back to read to my son – and, who am I fooling – to enjoy myself too, while reading […]

Caroline Minuscule is the first in Andrew Taylor’s William Dougal series, and it’s on sale right now (March 7. 2021) at Kindle UK for £0.99. This was Taylor’s first mystery, and per SYKM, it won a New Blood Dagger, and was a finalist for an Edgar for Best First Novel. I read this a long

Most of the books in Donna Leon’s excellent Commissario Brunetti series, set in Venice, go on sale a lot, so I don’t tend to post them. Today, however, the most recent book in the series, Trace Elements, has dropped to $2.99 as part of today’s US Kindle Daily Deal (March 6, 2021). (At least it’s

Joan Wolf is one of a very few current romance writers I follow – i.e. writers other than Georgette Heyer and Mary Stewart :-). And she’s probably my favorite among them. She writes both historical and modern-day romances. One of her historical romances, His Lordship’s Desire, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Patricia Finney writes the Sir Robert Carey series under her pen name PF Chisholm. I am quite fond of that series and have enjoyed it a lot over the years. She also has written a different short three-book series, featuring Simon Ames and David Becket, set in roughly the same time frame, using her real

A very rare price drop in the US on a title in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald, Pale Gray for Guilt… Pale Gray is the ninth title in the series, and it’s on sale for $2.99. McGee titles don’t stay on sale very long, and are outrageously priced – all but one

Two Newbery Medal winners are on sale today (March 5, 2021) for $2.99 each as part of the Kindle US Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes: Kindle US | Kobo US The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare: Kindle US | Kobo US

Five of the six books in Phiip Gooden’s Nick Revill historical mystery series have dropped to £1.99 each at Kindle UK, except for the first one, which is £2.99. This is pretty odd – usually publishers discount the first one, to get you hooked, rather than making it more expensive. But what do I know?

And yet another Zelda White/Virginia Holmes/Poisoned Pen Press freebie…with patience, we may get them all… This is odd behavior for PPP, but I’m not complaining! The Vanishing Spy is #2 in White’s Virginia Holmes series and it’s free right now (March 4, 2021) at Kindle US and UK free at Kindle US | Kindle UK