Amazon is having a huge Kindle Daily Deal sale on the first books in popular series. There are A LOT of romances featured today, so make sure you check out the full sale!
The Widows of Malabar Hill
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey is $1.99! This is a mystery set in 1920s Bombay. Carrie read this one and gave it a B:
It’s not a romance. Romance does not go well for the main characters. However, it’s a very good female-centered historical mystery.
1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new historical mystery with a captivating heroine.
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India’s first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth.Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women’s legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn’t even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women’s quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are
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RECOMMENDED: The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne is $2.99! Redheadedgirl grabbed this at RT 2015 when it was held in Dallas. She reviewed it and gave it an A-:
What I liked best about this book was the liberal use of crazysauce. It’s a melodramatic tale of a broken man healed by the love of a good woman, and the good woman that’s strong enough to love this man and bring him back into the world. When he proposed the marriage idea, she’s like “Fine, but I want a baby so that’s my condition,” and he’s like, “but I don’t touch people so I didn’t really think this through,” “fine, then I’ll take a lover.” “I. WILL. KILL. HIM….”
“That’s not very solution-oriented.” (Actual quote!)
They’re rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards-dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster, in the stunning debut historical romance The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne.
STEALING BEAUTYDorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of Victorian London’s wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who’ve wronged him…and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception-and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands…
COURTING DESIRE
But Farah is no one’s puppet. She possesses a powerful secret-one that threatens her very life. When being held captive by Dorian proves to be the only way to keep Farah safe from those who would see her dead, Dorian makes Farah a scandalous proposition: marry him for protection in exchange for using her secret to help him exact revenge on his enemies. But what the Blackheart of Ben More never could have imagined is that Farah has terms of her own, igniting a tempestuous desire that consumes them both. Could it be that the woman he captured is the only one who can touch the black heart he’d long thought dead?
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The Trouble with Dukes by Grace Burrowes is $1.99! There seems to be some Beauty and the Beast elements to this, with an intimidating hero and a heroine who doesn’t mind all of his scary gossip. This begins the new Windham Brides series. Some of the readers thought everyone was wrapped up too quickly, but others loved the heroine. Have you read this one?
THEY CALL HIM THE DUKE OF MURDER…
The gossips whisper that the new Duke of Murdoch is a brute, a murderer, and even worse—a Scot. They say he should never be trusted alone with a woman. But Megan Windham sees in Hamish something different, someone different.
No one was fiercer at war than Hamish MacHugh, though now the soldier faces a whole new battlefield: a London Season. To make his sisters happy, he’ll take on any challenge—even letting their friend Miss Windham teach him to waltz. Megan isn’t the least bit intimidated by his dark reputation, but Hamish senses that she’s fighting battles of her own. For her, he’ll become the warrior once more, and for her, he might just lose his heart.
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A Quick Bite by Lynsay Sands is 99c! This is the first book in the long running Argeneau paranormal romance series. Some say this book hasn’t aged well, while others love this series for the blend of humor and romance. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads. Any fans of the series here?
That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau’s bed? He’s not dessert – he’s the main course!
Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there’s another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood…an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course it doesn’t hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that?
Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger’s bedroom pretty quickly – once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a wild night of passion. But is it possible for the good doctor to find true love with a vampire vixen, or will he be just a good meal? That’s a question Dr. Greg might be willing to sink his
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I had to doublecheck my Kindle to verify that I do, in fact, own & have read “The Trouble with Dukes”. I’m assuming “Dukes” is at least OK – I bought the remaining books in that series – but none of them left a strong impression. By contrast, I can still recall the plot details of Burrowes’ three Wyndham novels – “The Heir”, “The Soldier”, & “The Virtuoso”, & I strongly recommend reading those instead.
The amazon sale includes the first book in the Inspector Gamache mystery series by Louise Penny and the first book in the Charles Lennox mystery series by Charles Finch. The Gamache series is set in Quebec and I binged through the first five or six books last summer. The Lennox series is Victorian and is a little slower (I liked the second book better than the first, but am very glad that I persevered). The Gamache books go on sale occasionally. Several of the other books in the Lennox series have been on sale recently, so he must have a new one coming out (I’m a little behind in that series). Both are well written – but definitely not romances.
The sale also includes Dangerous, a debut Regency by Minerva Spencer. I happened to have read it last week and really liked it. It includes a MOC and has a heroine who is a Duke’s daughter but who was kidnapped by pirates at age 14 and sold to a sultan. She then spent the next 17 years in his harem, and has finally returned to England. One reason I liked the book was that it doesn’t pretend that an innocent who ends up in a sultan’s harem would still somehow be “untouched” and a virgin. Instead, we get a mature, 33 YO woman who has a 17 YO half Arabic son, but she hides his existence, knowing her father won’t accept him. She has agreed to her father’s plan to marry her off so that she can get her hands on her marriage settlement money in order to help her son (this is all discussed in the first few chapters so I don’t consider it to be a spoiler).
Thanks, JenM! I don’t have a Kindle but Dangerous sounds like my kind of catnip, so I looked up Minerva Spencer on Apple Books and was excited to see this book was only 1.99. Click!!
@deianira. I totally agree. I just finished up this series and while they still had the cozy-hugness of Grace Burrowes I found myself bored at points and then promptly forgot all the details of them. I second the first three of the Windham series though I think I liked the next five about the daughters best.
And, yes please to Minerva Spencer. Click!
It occurred to me that I should mention that rape is mentioned in Dangerous (backstory only, nothing happens on screen or involving the hero) so TW for that.
I love Sujata Massey. The Salaryman’s Wife is my favorite. She gets full marks for capturing half Asian life and also expat world. Although her version is a lot more exciting.
@Chillyjen: Thanks, I’ll check out Burrowes’ novels about the daughters. I’d read the Heir/Soldier/Virtuoso trio & loved them, but then apparently went down the Brides rabbit hole & lost interest.