Amazing deals to be had today for Kindle readers!
Check out these great deals! Seriously…. you can buy two complete series for less than $2.00 – includes 15 titles! (and NO, I am NOT affiliated with Amazon – I just love a good bargain and I like to share my book love)
.99¢ on Kindle:
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- Publisher: Joffe Books crime box set
- ASIN: B088TV2GMY
I actually reviewed the first book in this series already.
Seriously folks this works out to about .15¢ per title.
IN THIS SEVEN-BOOK BOX SET:
BOOK 1: THE LADY VANISHED
A missing woman holds the key to a valuable inheritance
Florence Davenport hires Swift to find her missing stepmother. There are no leads and no suspects, but if the body is found, Florence will inherit half of a very valuable house.
BOOK 2: BLOOD SECRETS
Fifteen years ago a teenage boy, Teddy Bartlett, went to a woods on the outskirts of London and was beaten to a pulp and left damaged for life. The police never found who did it or why he was targeted.
BOOK 3: TWO LOVERS, SIX DEATHS
A man stabs his girlfriend to death. Then hangs himself, leaving a note confessing to the murder. Open and shut case? Not for detective Tyrone Swift.
BOOK 4: WATCHING YOU
TWO YEARS AGO someone kidnapped Thomas Maddox’s six-month-old son. The case has never been solved and the boy has not been found.
BOOK 5: LOW LAKE
Detective Tyrone Swift is hired to investigate the death of Kim Woodville. Two years ago, the young woman drowned in the lake by her family house. But there was bruising on her arms, and the prime suspect was let go because of police errors.
BOOK 6: YOUR LAST LIE
Pilot Greg Roscoe is found stabbed to death in his cockpit. His body has been mutilated. Detective Tyrone Swift is hired by the pilot’s mother to investigate the death of her beloved son. But Greg wasn’t who she thought he was. He had a tangled personal life, with three wives and a history of adultery and risk-taking.
BOOK 7: HER LOST SISTER
Three sisters, Kelly, Faith and Orla. Two are attacked. Kelly drowns, Faith survives, Orla wants justice. Kelly and Faith Dwyer are attacked on a ferry crossing the Irish Sea. Faith can’t remember what happened. Orla asks detective Tyrone Swift to investigate. Swift starts in London, where it becomes clear that many people wanted Kelly dead.
THE DETECTIVE
Tyrone Swift is an ex-police detective who now works privately. He’s survived a stabbing and his fiancée running off with another man. Swift’s personal life is complicated. He is still involved with his ex-wife Ruth, who is expecting their child, but living with another man. And it’s just about the worst time to begin another relationship but he is tempted by the attractive police detective Nora Morrow.
THE SETTING
The streets of London with their vibrant mix of nationalities, cultures, and rich and poor are beautifully evoked. From the quiet suburbs with their veneer of happy family life, to the bustling centre with refugees struggling to survive, to exclusive penthouses where the rich can have anything they want delivered.
.99¢ on Kindle:
- Publisher: Joffe Books crime box set
- ASIN: B087D92CLC
Seriously folks this works out to about .13¢ per title.
YOU GET EIGHT MYSTERIES IN THIS GREAT-VALUE BOX SET. This is the COMPLETE DETECTIVE SOPHIE ALLEN SERIES.
Book 1: DARK CRIMES
A young woman’s body is discovered on a deserted footpath in a Dorset seaside town late on a cold November night. She has been stabbed through the heart. It seems like a simple case for DCI Sophie Allen and her team to solve. But not when the victim’s mother is found strangled the next morning.
Book 2: DEADLY CRIMES
A young man’s mutilated body is found on top of the Agglestone, a well-known local landmark on Studland Heath.
Book 3: SECRET CRIMES
Two women go away for the weekend, but only one comes back alive. Was it just the music they were into? And who was the man the victim met at the festival?
Book 4: BURIED CRIMES
A devastating family secret unearthed. Sisters with a murderous rivalry.
Book 5: TWISTED CRIMES
Retired couple Sylvia and Ted Armitage attend the wrong funeral. It’s an honest mistake. But one month on, their bodies are found in their car, abandoned in the depths of a tranquil nature reserve.
Book 6: EVIL CRIMES
A young man’s body is spotted in the stormy Dorset sea. Did he lose his footing and fall in? Or is there a more sinister cause of death?
Book 7: SHADOW CRIMES
An undercover detective disappears. A retired prison guard is found dead. Drugs and contraband phones are out of control in the local prisons. How are they getting in?
Book 8: SILENT CRIMES
Detective Sophie Allen’s daughter discovers the body of a reclusive tramp out in the woods. Sophie and her team try to piece together something about his life, but progress is slow. NO ONE IS QUITE WHAT THEY SEEM.
THE DETECTIVE
DCI Sopie Allen is head of the recently formed Violent Crime Unit in Dorset. A beautiful English county which includes a stunning section of the coastline, but whose beauty belies darkness beneath the surface. She is 42 as the series starts, and lives with her husband and younger daughter in Wareham. Her elder daughter is studying in London. Sophie has a law degree and a master’s in criminal psychology. Her brilliant mind conceals some dark secrets from her past.
D.I. Kim Stone – An acerbic, brusque, and driven young woman who works as a Detective Inspector for the West Midlands Police, the second largest police force in the country. She is socially inept, and has been known to break the rules, as well as to disregard instructions and protocols in her search for justice. An insomniac, she is fueled by nervous energy and lots of coffee, and is beautiful, but she works hard to hide it. She is 34 years old, brilliant, hot-headed, and damaged. As a child, she suffered horribly, and was shunted from foster home to foster home. Only once did she experience a nurturing, loving relationship – and that was very short lived…. Now, when not working, her favourite thing to do is work at restoring vintage motorbikes. Bikes are her passion, and she uses a Kawasaki Ninja as her regular form of transport.
Other than her second in command, Bryant, she is friendless. Her one real weakness is her fondness for her adopted dog, Barney.
Police team
Kim and her partner Bryant have signed off on what appears to be a tragic suicide. Upon further thought and acute powers of observation, Kim realizes that the supposed suicide is in fact a murder. A murder with ties to “Unity Farm” – a place that is reputed to be a ‘cult’ right in their midst! Kim’s not sure at first that it is a cult, but the facts mount and it seems evident that the Farm’s leader uses emotional manipulation and coercion to further his own gains.
This was a tough decision, but I can rationalize it by saying I’ll never get my 500 reviews badge if I don’t continue to download from them. This, of course, is their evil plan. LOL
And… last but not least, I received a title directly from the author David Rawding. I agreed to review his latest book because I have read his work before and enjoyed it. (Read 
Have you read any of these stellar titles yet? Do you plan to?
This review was written voluntarily and my rating was in no way influenced by the fact that I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from Bookouture via NetGalley.
Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, 
This review was written voluntarily and my rating was in no way influenced by the fact that I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from 
Thomas Enger is a former journalist. He made his debut with the crime novel Burned (Skinndød) in 2010, which became an international sensation before publication. Burned is the first in a series of five books about the journalist Henning Juul, which delves into the depths of Oslo’s underbelly, skewering the corridors of dirty politics and nailing the fast-moving world of 24-hour news. Rights to the series have been sold to 28 countries to date. In 2013 Enger published his first book for young adults, a dark fantasy thriller called The Evil Legacy, for which he won the U-prize (best book Young Adult). Killer Instinct, another Young Adult suspense novel, was published in Norway in 2017. Rights have been sold to Germany and Iceland. Thomas Enger also composes music, and he lives in Oslo.
Jørn Lier Horst is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is now considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers. His William Wisting series of crime novels has been extremely successful, having sold more than 1 million copies in Norway. The series has also been translated into thirty languages. Dregs, sixth in the series, was published in English by Sandstone Press in 2011. The next book, Closed for Winter, won Norway’s Booksellers’ Prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Riverton Prize. The Hunting Dogs, won both the prestigious Golden Revolver, for best Norwegian crime, and The Glass Key, which widened the scope to best crime fiction in all the Nordic countries, in 2013. He has a beloved dog named Theodor.
Anne Bruce, who lives in Scotland, has a joint honours degree in Norwegian and English from Glasgow University. She has translated a number of books by Jørn Lier Horst and bestselling author Anne Holt.
The second setting, the university city of Cambridge, England, is one of my favourites. I’ve always wanted to visit and see it for myself. 
This review was written voluntarily and my rating was in no way influenced by the fact that I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from Minotaur Books (an imprint of St. Martin’s Press) via NetGalley.
We follow various people who are residing in a holiday park in the Trossachs.
Justine – middle-aged, married and the mother of two young sons. Justine and her family have rented a cabin for two weeks away from their daily routine in Northern England. She is addicted to running and she leaves the cabin every morning before her family rises to run 12K around the loch before she returns home to make breakfast for her family. As she runs we follow her myriad thoughts and disjointed ruminations about her life.
Milly and Josh, a young engaged couple are staying at the cottage of his parents. They are relishing their privacy and making love. We follow the young woman’s train of thought as she fantasizes about old film stars, warmth, and a bacon sandwich.
A chronically depressed, frazzled mother sends her two young children out to play in the rain so that she can get a bit of peace. We follow the daughter’s thoughts as she accompanies her young brother to the loch. There we learn that children can indeed be cruel…
Sunshine would have much improved this cabin park in the 
Sarah Moss has granted us a glimpse into the lives and thoughts of various different people here. They are all very genuine and uncompromisingly ‘real’. Their stories portray the author’s keen understanding of human nature. Literary fiction that engenders empathy in the reader is to be recommended. Well done!
The Mermaids are now all around the age of forty.
The protagonist(s) were very interesting characters, and you got to know them well over the course of the book. I particularly liked Freddie Power and enjoyed the scenes where she took up her late mother’s pet hotel.
The cover is stunning and exactly fits the subject nature of the novel.
Publication date: May 7, 2020 Publisher: Head of Zeus
I learned about this little story from 
Ines Murillo is a lost soul. She begins her three year term at Catherine House having little to lose after a traumatic and rather sordid event in her past. Her roommate is called Baby, a studious and serious girl. Ines on the other hand parties hard, misses classes, and finds herself lost, both physically and metaphorically. Has she escaped her past? Or, has she run from the proverbial frying pan straight into the fire?
Most readers will acknowledge that some words reappear time and time again in titles. Often these words are associated with a particular genre. Case in point: “The girl on the train” and “Gone girl” spawned countless thriller titles with the word ‘girl’ in the title.
Born in Akranes, Iceland in 1988, Eva moved to Trondheim, Norway to study my MSc in Globalisation when she was 25. After moving back home having completed her MSc, she knew it was time to start working on her novel.
Victoria Cribb studied and worked in Iceland for many years. She has translated more than 25 novels from the Icelandic and, in 2017, she received the Orðstír honourary translation award for services to Icelandic literature.
