Jennifer Ashley/ Ashley Gardner bargains

[mikaelalind]

While checking out one of the books AT Drake linked to, I discovered that Jennifer Ashley is self publishing her historical mysteries backlist written as Ashley Gardner. I haven’t read any of them, but they sounds interesting, plus they only cost between 0.99 and 2.99. ( Book 5-7 costs 2.99, but I am not posting those blurbs, since I figure this post gets long enough).
The Hanover Square Affair (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries #1) ( Novel length. 0.99 at Amazon, Smashwords and BN):

London, 1816 Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, his career ignominiously over. He stumbles onto the case of a kidnapping, the accused a prominent MP. Lacey's search for the girl leads to the discovery of murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. At the same time, Lacey must face the everyday troubles of his own life.

A Regimental Murder (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries #2)Novel length. 1.99 at Amazon, Smashwords and
BN):
London 1816 After rescuing a lovely woman from an attempted robbery, Captain Lacey discovers that she's the widow of a colonel who had been accused of murdering an English officer during the recent war. Lydia declares that her husband was innocent and that she knows the true culprits' identities. Intrigued, Lacey begins to investigate, and soon finds himself mired in scandals past and present.
The Glass House (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries #3)Novel length. 1.99 at Amazon, Smashwords and BN( Also 2.99 at BN. Hmm..)):

On a January night in 1817, former cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey is summoned to the banks of the Thames to identify a body. When Lacey looks down at the pretty young woman, cut down too soon, he vows to find her murderer. His search takes him from the seamy streets of the East End, to gatherings of the London ton in Mayfair, to the chambers of respectable Middle Temple barristers.


The Sudbury School Murders (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries #4) ( 1.99 at Amazon, and Smashwords. 2.99(!) at BN)

In 1817, Captain Lacey takes a post as a secretary at the Sudbury School in Berkshire. He soon finds that the headmaster expects him to discover the source of disturbing pranks that have kept the school in an uproar. The problems intensify when a stableman turns up dead in a lock of the nearby canal. A Romany is arrested for the murder, and Lacey is the only person who believes him innocent.

I have no idea what is going on with the prices. Either she is lowering the price to 1.99, or raising it to 2.99


That’s the historical mysteries. Jennifer Ashley is also self publishing a couple of paranormal romances, both part of her Shifters Unbound series.

Bodyguard (Shifters Unbound #2.5) ( Novel, 0.99 at Amazon[/URL],Smashwords, BN)

Elizabeth Chapman is saved from an armed robber by a giant Kodiak bear who shifts into a large, well-muscled, and fully naked human male. Ronan, the Bear Shifter, takes her to Shiftertown for safety, but will only let Elizabeth leave if he becomes her 24/7 bodyguard. The trouble is, the sassy human Elizabeth is triggering Ronan's long-buried need to find himself a mate.

Shifter Made ( Prequel Short story, 0.99 at Amazon, Smashwords, BN)

Alanna, sister to a Fae prince, returns to medieval Ireland to coerce a Shifter to craft an incredible sword. Niall O’Connell, wildcat Shifter and master sword maker, hates all Fae, but Alanna's heartbreaking story and beauty are difficult to resist. Together, she and Niall forge a sword that changes Shifter history, at the same time forging an unbreakable bond between their hearts.

[Joykins]

I can recommend the first 2 Captain Lacey books--time to pick up the rest!

[sufue]

She has put out all (I think) of the Captain Lacey books that were originally published in paper - she was doing re-releases one a month for a while starting sometime last year:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=139955

And there is now at least one "new" book in the series, A Death in Norfolk, which came out first as an e-book, followed almost immediately by a print edition, and another, A Disappearance in Drury Lane, promised for the spring of this year. There are also a couple of novellas as well.

I suspect that without digital publishing, there might not have been any more books in the series, which had been on hiatus since 2006, so I'm quite happy about it. And her prices have been very reasonable: $0.99 for the first book, $1.99 and $2.99 for the rest of the series.

I wish more authors would put out their backlists like this, instead of at the original prices (or worse!) of the DTB's. Although I already owned four (if memory serves) of her DTB's, I went ahead and bought/re-bought the whole series, both old and new ones, as e-books. I would not have done this (the re-buying, at least) at much more than $3 or $4. So it's a win-win: I get to clear some room on my shelves, and the author gets a bit more in sales that they wouldn't get otherwise.

[MarciaCat]

Thanks! I'll definitely be picking up the Captain Lacey books; I recently donated my paperbacks to the library trying to clear out some cluttered shelves.

Edit: Sony has books #1 and 3 thru 6 (why no #2??) of the Captain Lacey books; they're priced similarly to BN: http://ebookstore.sony.com/search?ke...Ashley+gardner