All of today’s titles are part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, with some spotty price-matching.
Time’s Convert
Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness is $2.99! Fans of Harkness, please give me clarification. Can this one be read without reading the A Discovery of Witches series? Or is that essential to the story? If it’s the latter, Lara just wrote a great post about why the series is such a favorite for her.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.
On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus’s deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood.
Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor—the young employee at Sotheby’s whom Marcus has fallen for—is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. The shadows that Marcus believed he’d escaped centuries ago may return to haunt them both—forever.
A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities not just for change but for revolution, Time’s Convert channels the supernatural world-building and slow-burning romance that made the All Souls Trilogy instant bestsellers to illuminate a new and vital moment in history, and a love affair that will bridge centuries.
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PODCAST RECOMMENDED: The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick is $2.99! This is the first book in the Burning Cove series, and is a historical romance with a bit of mystery. Author Sara Flynn/Meg Tilly recommended this one on a previous podcast episode, though some reviews on Goodreads mention that the pacing is off at times. Right now, it’s only being price-matched at Kobo.
When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It’s where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool…
The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn’t resist—especially since she’s just a rookie at a third-rate gossip rag. But now Irene’s investigation into the drowning threatens to tear down the wall of illusion that is so deftly built around the famous actor, and there are powerful men willing to do anything to protect their investment.
Seeking the truth, Irene finds herself drawn to a master of deception. Oliver Ward was once a world-famous magician—until he was mysteriously injured during his last performance. Now the owner of the Burning Cove Hotel, he can’t let scandal threaten his livelihood, even if it means trusting Irene, a woman who seems to have appeared in Los Angeles out of nowhere four months ago…
With Oliver’s help, Irene soon learns that the glamorous paradise of Burning Cove hides dark and dangerous secrets. And that the past—always just out of sight—could drag them both under…
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The Anatomist’s Wife by Anna Lee Huber is $2.99! This is a historical mystery that we tend to recommend on Instagram who want Deanna Raybourn or Lady Sherlock read-alikes. Some people found the prose a bit flowery, while others loved the characters and setting. Sarah highly recommends this series!
Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her husband, Lady Darby has taken refuge at her sister’s estate, finding solace in her passion for painting. But when her hosts throw a house party for the cream of London society, Kiera is unable to hide from the ire of those who believe her to be as unnatural as her husband, an anatomist who used her artistic talents to suit his own macabre purposes.
Kiera wants to put her past aside, but when one of the house guests is murdered, her brother-in-law asks her to utilize her knowledge of human anatomy to aid the insufferable Sebastian Gage—a fellow guest with some experience as an inquiry agent. While Gage is clearly more competent than she first assumed, Kiera isn’t about to let her guard down as accusations and rumors swirl.
When Kiera and Gage’s search leads them to even more gruesome discoveries, a series of disturbing notes urges Lady Darby to give up the inquiry. But Kiera is determined to both protect her family and prove her innocence, even as she risks becoming the next victim…
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The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson is $2.99! This is a mix of true crime and nature, which I’ve been seeing more and more of (and have been enjoying!). This was heavily recommended in one of my book clubs. Have you read it?
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London’s Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin’s obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins–some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin’s, Alfred Russel Wallace, who’d risked everything to gather them–and escaped into the darkness.
Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man’s relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man’s destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
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I LOVED the Girl Who Knew Too Much; probably my favorite from this batch.
The Anatomist’s Wife was terrific & led me to binge read the entire series. It’s a steal at $2.99.
Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness: IMO the other books must be read first. I love them all.
I found the TV series on Amazon Prime and to my disappointment it cost money, so I will have to try the library.
My goodness, it is a first! I have read all of the books on sale. I really love the Anatomist’s Wife.
I would definitely recommend reading Time’s Convert after the All Souls Trilogy, or it probably wouldn’t make much sense.
I loved The Anatomist’s Wife. Heck I loved the whole series and eagerly await each new book. I got the audible books also and the reader is pretty much perfect for the series.
I one-clicked The Feather Thief — thanks for including it in this list!
Re Time’s Convert: yes, you have to have read the trilogy to get what is happening. I found it to be a little disjointed and perhaps a sop to the fans clamoring for more.
I myself would love more Gallowglass.
I also highly recommend the Lady Darby series. I listened to The Anatomist’s Wife and while I enjoyed the book and the narrator, I did have to increase the read speed because it tended to drag in spots. But I liked it so much I continued with the rest of the series. The audiobooks are available through my library’s Hoopla service. I’ve been slowly collecting the series in ebook when they go on sale but that doesn’t happen too often.
I really liked the All souls trilogy, but Time’s convert was a DNF for me. I couldn’t get into the story and while the Marcus sections were good, Phoebe was just too annoying.
I haven’t read the Feather Thief, but there is an episode of This American Life dedicated to this story. It is crazy sauce you guys! There are musical prodigies, museum heists, black markets and weird “recipes” for rare fly ties. Buying it now, because I can’t wait to know what other crazy things they left out of the hour podcast.
It looks like another Lady Darby series, _A Pressing Engagement_, is also on sale today for $2.99 at Amazon.
The Feather Thief is my favorite true crime book! It’s the most bananas story one could imagine and once you think “Oh, it couldn’t possibly get weirder,” it gets WEIRDER. A wild ride and no murder, since that seems to occupy most of the true crime genre.
I loved Girl Who Knew Too Much and the whole series! I like the more “traditional” Amanda Quick novels too, but in small doses. These seem more fast-paced and exciting somehow.
Anatomist’s Wife was good too. I was a bit cautious given the hero’s refusal to communicate about his issues, thinking the series could either keep getting better or go the way of Raybourn’s Lady Julia Gray series, where I loved the plots so much that I wanted to keep reading, but by the third or fourth book I was actively rooting for her to please, PLEASE find someone, anyone, else and have us be treated to some scenes of the “hero” being miserable and finally understanding what a standoffish, withholding, and uncommunicative jerk he’d been and how he’s been treating her like a dish rag. So when they got together (and the way that happened, I was out). Thankfully, that’s not at all what happened in the Lady Darby series, and after the 4 books I read so far, the plots and the couple only seem to be getting stronger.