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ATDrake · 09-30-2014, 11:59 PM

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Here's an easy link to all the Simon & Schuster UK-published books which are price-matched in the Amazon sale, available @ Kobo for $1.99 each in Canada and presumably also the US.

(ETA: and Scribner for Ursula Blanchard and others @ Kobo; you'll have to scroll past a bunch of 99 cent essay shorts, but once you hit the $1.99 range, there's about a dozen sale titles across multiple genres)

In addition to sale titles by Michael Jecks & Bernard Knight, if you like those two authors you should also pick up their two "The Medieval Murderers" collaborative novels listed which feature them and a bunch of other medieval mystery-writing authors making a shared story involving their particular sleuths sequentially investigating mysteries centred around murder-attracting objects which get passed around down the ages.

They've also got some promising-looking non-fiction from Catharine Arnold on crime and death in London, which mystery readers may also may be interested in.

(ETA 2: I broke down and bought both of Arnold's books from Kobo. She's an academic and the samples showed pictures and footnotes, so I couldn't resist. Also, the other available book in her series of London history is regularly priced at $19.99, so they were probably close to literally 90% off.)

As for Amazon, I've personally read and enjoyed all three (thus far) of Leena Lehtolainen's Finnish-translated Maria Kallio mystery series which are exclusively available from the AmazonCrossing imprint, so I second the recommendation for them if you want to try a low-key Nordic police procedural (they're a bit retro since the original publication was in the early 90s, and very realism-oriented, so YMMV and here's what I thought of the 1st in the Reading Recs forum if you want more details on that).

09-30-2014, 11:59 PM	#112
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	^ Here's an easy link to all the Simon & Schuster UK-published books which are price-matched in the Amazon sale, available @ Kobo for $1.99 each in Canada and presumably also the US. (ETA: and Scribner for Ursula Blanchard and others @ Kobo; you'll have to scroll past a bunch of 99 cent essay shorts, but once you hit the $1.99 range, there's about a dozen sale titles across multiple genres) In addition to sale titles by Michael Jecks & Bernard Knight, if you like those two authors you should also pick up their two "The Medieval Murderers" collaborative novels listed which feature them and a bunch of other medieval mystery-writing authors making a shared story involving their particular sleuths sequentially investigating mysteries centred around murder-attracting objects which get passed around down the ages. They've also got some promising-looking non-fiction from Catharine Arnold on crime and death in London, which mystery readers may also may be interested in. (ETA 2: I broke down and bought both of Arnold's books from Kobo. She's an academic and the samples showed pictures and footnotes, so I couldn't resist. Also, the other available book in her series of London history is regularly priced at $19.99, so they were probably close to literally 90% off.) As for Amazon, I've personally read and enjoyed all three (thus far) of Leena Lehtolainen's Finnish-translated Maria Kallio mystery series which are exclusively available from the AmazonCrossing imprint, so I second the recommendation for them if you want to try a low-key Nordic police procedural (they're a bit retro since the original publication was in the early 90s, and very realism-oriented, so YMMV and here's what I thought of the 1st in the Reading Recs forum if you want more details on that). Last edited by ATDrake; 10-01-2014 at 12:33 AM. Reason: Misspelt author name probably makes it harder for you to search for her stuff.