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Christmas is approaching but there is little good cheer in the bitterly cold air in Haworth, Yorkshire, in December 1845. The literary geniuses turned sleuths Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are about to investigate their second sinister case and it has a grim gothic chill to it. The sisters with their hedonistic brother Branwell in tow
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I don’t have to tell you that the holidays look different this year. You know. We’re all making adjustments to how we would normally celebrate the winter holidays, and it might not feel as cheerful as it normally would. I wasn’t really feeling the holiday spirit until my dearest childhood friend sent me a video
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo for $3.99 Difficult Women by Roxane Gay for $2.99 Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang for $2.99 Remembrance by Rita Woods for $2.99 The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde for $1.99 Lakewood
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First published in 2002, Eragon is the first in Christopher Paolini’s beloved fantasy series The Inheritance Cycle. It’s such a fun and epic fantasy romp following the story of young hero Eragon and his dragon friend Saphira, who encounter elves, witches, and warriors as they are drawn into a war that will change the world.
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Debut authors have had quite a battle on their hands this year. With bookshops closing in lockdown and festivals being cancelled all over the place, it’s been hard to get their work out to the reading public. But Crime Fiction Lover has your back, debutants – and we’ve sifted through our 2020 reviews list to
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Until I was doing it for my real-life grown-up job, I never put much thought to the art behind typesetting. Newspapers, magazines, books—I thought they all just came that way. But there are so many decisions to be made about the best fonts for books, from the typeface itself to the type size, the space
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Translated by Marlaine Delargy — Detective Inspector Embla Nyström returns in the third instalment of Helene Tursten’s series based on the detective. Snowdrift picks up only eight days after the end of 2019’s Winter Grave when Embla receives a call from her childhood friend, Louise Lindqvist, also known as Lollo. Lollo disappeared 15 years earlier,
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JY This edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by JY. Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem for $2.99 Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller for $1.99 The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz for $2.99 Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland for $2.99
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It’s not been the best year and travelling to more challenging past eras through the portal of modern historical crime novels and thrillers has been a welcome holiday from 2020. My selection includes books set in War World II, the dark and dangerous world of 19th century Sweden and the turmoil of strife-ridden post-partition India on the
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon for $1.99 The Night Country by Melissa Albert for $2.99 Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré for $2.99 And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley for $1.99
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For those who love the action genre, Die Hard is perhaps the greatest Christmas movie of all. Now imagine if Die Hard was set in Hamburg. Maybe it would be a little bit like the latest novel by Simone Buchholz, whose Chastity Riley series has been a hit with us. Hotel Cartagena sees Riley caught
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There are times when crime fiction reading can feel a little bit like Groundhog Day, with the same old tropes, characters and situations occurring again and again. Just when the palate feels a little jaded though, along comes an author who shatters the mould. Matt Wesolowski’s Six Stories series is a welcome break from the
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“Inner Vegas” is a guide to using scientifically proven psychic abilities to create miracles in your life. It is grounded in science, experience, and astounding stories of success. Dr. Joe’s surprising discoveries take place in university laboratories, mysterious meditation centers, and even casinos. He proves that these skills are practical and teachable. Over 100 million
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Invisible by Stephen L. Carter for $2.99 Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones for $1.99 On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard for $2.99 Courage to Soar by Simone Biles for $1.99 Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
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The Art of Violence is the latest in SJ Rozan’s popular and long-running series featuring private investigators and romantic partners Bill Smith and Lydia Chin. Former client Sam Tabor has recently been released from the Green Haven Correctional Facility, where he’d been serving time for the stabbing Amy Evans to death. This event occurred during
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Courage to Soar by Simone Biles for $1.99 Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier for $1.99 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for $0.99 Timekeeper by Tara Sim for $1.99 Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender for $4.99 The
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Translated by David Warriner — Arguably the finest novel in the Dark Iceland series, Winterkill sees Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson writing as smoothly, confidently and incisively as ever. From page one, you’ll glide into the mystery of a young woman’s death and the detailed investigation that follows, carried out by the young police inspector Ari
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On Monday morning, Netflix dropped the first official full length trailer for Bridgerton, the new series based on the Julia Quinn romance book series and adapted by Chris Van Dusen and Shonda Rhimes. As the first series in Rhimes’s producing deal with Netflix and one of the biggest adaptations of a romance novel, fans from
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Most readers want the same basic elements from their crime fiction: an engaging plot; enough momentum to sustain the plot; well-developed characters; some misdirection; and a satisfying ending. This year my top five favourites not only had all the essential elements, they all included a strong sense of place, a pinch of dark humour, or
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