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Severn has come out with a second round of backlist titles by Simon Brett, Paul Doherty, and others. Unfortunately these are priced at $5.XX and not $2.99, like the first set. For me, this takes them out of the “impulse buy/replace the DTB on my shelf" range, and puts them into the “wait for a coupon/maybe I’ll buy them someday” range. They ARE at Kobo and Books on Board, and seem to be couponable at Kobo, at least – I just tried one at Kobo and the Kobo coupon out this weekend (jan6us25) worked. The books are also at BN and Amazon, but they never have much in the way of useful discounts.
These seem to be the 3rd and 4th in their respective series, after the first batch, which were the 1st and 2nd, so it seems possible they are going to work their way through these backlists. (The Paul Johnston series is #3, #4, and #5, which completes the series.)
I sure wish they were all at $2.99, though, and not $5.XX. I had sent Severn House an e-mail (no reply, of course) thanking them for the first batch, telling them I bought them all, and expressing the hope they were planning to continue this. I think I’ll send them another e-mail expressing my disappointment with the price of these new ones, indicating that they have crossed over my price point to buy when it’s replacing books I already own in paper, and hoping that they will reconsider their pricing decision. I don’t expect it to do any good, but at least I will have provided input.
The list of new titles, at least the ones I found, includes:
Simon Brett/Charles Paris:
Star Trap (#3)
An Amateur Corpse (#4)
Simon Brett/Mrs Pargeter:
Mrs P’s Package (#3)
Mrs P’s Pound of Flesh (#4)
Tim Heald:
Deadline (#3)
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (#4)
Paul Doherty/Brother Athelstan:
Murder Most Holy (#3)
The Anger of God (#4)
Paul Johnston:
Water of Death (#3)
The Blood Tree (#4)
House of Dust (#5)
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