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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead for $2.99.
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Written by Karen Charlton — Whether it is focusing on shenanigans in the Roman Empire or crooked deals during the Cold War, historical crime is a popular genre with readers of all ages. Some books skim the surface of the era in which they are set, but one of the things I love about Karen
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson for $1.99. Get
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin for
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Written by Rory Clements — Cambridge professor Tom Wilde has more than an academic interest in espionage. He has risked his life over three previous thrillers to spy for and protect his adopted Britain and native United States of America, mainly from the evil Fascists at home and in Germany, in the lead up to World
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
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Written by Ted Lewis — Northeast crime author Ted Lewis is credited with being one of the forefathers of British noir. His greatest commercial success was Jack Returns Home, adapted for film as Get Carter and starring Michael Caine. His last novel, GBH, is considered his best work, but didn’t sell well and he died
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Thomas Cromwell by Tracy Borman for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina for $1.99.
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Written by Wm Stage — Francis X Lenihan is a process server in St Louis in the late 1980s. He is a free spirit who enjoys the independence and variety of his work, serving papers on people requiring them to attend civil court proceedings.   While doing an out-of-town call one afternoon Francis is accosted
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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On the Radar — Today’s new crime books column starts off with a book that’s interesting because it’s the product of something quite rare in literature – a collaboration between authors. Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger have teamed up on Death Deserved, a contemporary thriller in the Nordic noir category. In some of the
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman for $3.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Paris Wife by Paula McLain for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Black House by Patricia Highsmith for $1.99. Get it
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Written by Steven Max Russo — It’s taken five decades for the long arm of retribution to reach halfway around the world and tap the shoulder of Frank Thompson in this new crime thriller by Steven Max Russo. Back in the late 1960s, when Frank was an American soldier in Vietnam, he was part of
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Sponsored by Amazon Publishing and Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley for $1.99.
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan for $3.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath for $1.99. Get it here, or
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Written by Doug Johnstone — There’s death lurking in pretty much every crime novel, but it is the heart and soul of this quirky new book by Doug Johnstone. You see, A Dark Matter features the Skelf family, who have latterly turned their hands to a spot of private investigating. But the real bread and
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Ten
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Written by Catherine Steadman — You’d think appearing in Downton Abbey would be enough to occupy actress Catherine Steadman’s time, but last year her debut crime novel, Something in the Water, was published. It demonstrated that she’s also an author with a few tricks up her sleeve. Now she’s back with another standalone, and I’m
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If you’re a SFF fan whose 2020 To Be Read pile is looking a little bare, we’ve got the perfect giveaway for you. Thanks to our friends at Tor.com Publishing, we’ve got a prize pack containing 28 – yes, 28! – releases from 2019 to give away to one lucky Book Riot reader. To enter
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On the Radar — This week our On the Radar new crime fiction column gets going with a creepy thriller about child snatching by CJ Tudor. We’ve also got two totally different World War II novels, an atmospheric family secrets thriller set on the Hebrides and a serial killer from Liverpool who ends up in
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Dry by Jane Harper for $2.99. Get it
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Written by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts — At the heart of The Aosawa Murders is a puzzle – who could have poisoned 17 people at a gathering at a house belonging to the Aosawa family, and who could have had a motive to murder the family of a prominent local doctor and all
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Sponsored by Kaiyo Books – the young adult adventure trilogy. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett for $1.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by
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Sponsored by A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian, new in paperback from Algonquin Books. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. A Map
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