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[sufue]

Murder at the Ritz is on sale at Kindle US right now for $0.99...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GPL83KF

Originally Posted by sufue

All three books in Jim Eldridge's wartime (WWII) hotel mystery series are on sale at Kindle UK right now. I haven't read any books in this series, but did have a review copy of one of the books in his Museum Detectives series a while back and liked it.

Murder at the Ritz, £1.49
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GPL83KF
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GPL83KF

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[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sufue

...I think there are some Rosetta ones?...

Is Rosetta an imprint of Open Road? I seem to remember seeing books were the cover would say Rosetta, then you'll see the same book, same cover as Open Road. I noticed it when I bought a bunch of Arthur C. Clarke on sale.

(I tend to see this when looking for high-res cover scans and always forget to look further into the Rosetta/Open Road connection.)

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Is Rosetta an imprint of Open Road?

I don't think so...? https://www.rosettaebooks.com/about-us/
This article suggests there's some shared ownership: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...open-road.html
Rosetta isn't mentioned in Open Road's corporate website: https://openroadintegratedmedia.com/our-portfolio/

I don't really trust them. I got their edition of The Queen's Gambit and it has about 2 pages of text missing (in the middle of a sentence).

I tried contacting them through their website, and Twitter, and reporting the book to Amazon, and never got a reply.

[sufue]

I've noticed this too (similarity between Rosetta and Open Road), but have never really checked it out. So now I did, and here's what their website says:

RosettaBooks is a leading independent publisher headquartered in New York City. It pioneered by building a 700-eBook catalog of iconic titles.

RosettaBooks prides itself as a pro-author publisher. It has long paid the highest standard industry eBook royalties.

Rosetta does seem to have a bit of a thing for somehow having a few books out of an otherwise "homogeneous" series - Robert B Parker's Promised Land, Ed McBain's Fuzz, and Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun (but sadly not the only other book in that too-short series, Zombies of the Gene Pool) come to mind. I've always just assumed it to be some quirk of publishing rights...

I've read all three of those and didn't notice any egregious errors, but I'm pretty tolerant of formatting - although not of totally missing text!

[sufue]

Today's Joffe Friday free book, probably - but not guaranteed - good through the weekend, is Risky Mission, which is the first in the Frank Doy series by Dan Latus.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZWJ1GGV
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZWJ1GGV

Spoiler:

Frank Doy, contract security specialist, is flat broke. Then beautiful and mysterious Vlasta George shows up at his door. She'll give him good money to take her to a secret location in Europe, no questions asked.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

The woman’s husband is a murderous Teesside gangster. She is running away to start a life without him, taking her two young kids and a million pounds with her.

HE WANTS HER BACK. DEAD OR ALIVE.

But there is someone even more dangerous — someone from the past — who also has an interest in the money. Before long, two of Vlasta’s circle are found dead.

Doy finds himself in a frantic chase across Europe, travelling into unknown territory, battling an enemy he doesn’t understand, for vendettas he is not involved with.

Will he be able to protect his client — and make it out alive?

Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Peter James, Robert Galbraith and Michael Grant.

MEET FRANK DOY, a quick-thinking, fast-talking security consultant turned private investigator. He has a talent for finding himself in the seediest corners of the most dangerous cities in Europe. He doesn’t go looking for trouble. He lives in a converted miner’s cottage on an isolated stretch of the Cleveland coast. But he never backs down from a fight and he never turns away those who are desperate. So trouble finds him.

[sufue]

An Impossible Impostor is now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0951KW1VB
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/an-impossible-impostor

Originally Posted by sufue

An Impossible Impostor is the seventh in the Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0951KW1VB
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0951KW1VB