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.
Last Night with the Duke by Amelia Grey is $1.99! This is the first book in The Rakes of St. James series and the heroine is the chaperone to the hero’s sisters. Readers warn that the romance and plot is pretty slow to develop, while others recommend this book for a cute and funny romance.
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and it’s being price-match by most vendors. I feel like we featured this rather recently, but as part of today’s KDD, books A through O in the Kinsey Millhone series are on sale. I think P is missing though. So, if you want to begin building your digital Sue Grafton library, this sale is for you.
RECOMMENDED: Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins is 99c! Redheadedgirl gave this book an A and reminded us all how lucky we are to have an author like Jenkins:
What Jenkins has been doing for decades upon decades is giving her readers strong three-dimensional Black women who are loved, desired, and cherished. I can’t tell you how important that is. Eddy gets to be strong, but also loved and supported by her community and her man, and that is the thing I loved most about her. I’m so glad Jenkins is writing these stories and giving voice to these times and places and people. We’re really lucky to have her in our community.
Tremaine’s True Love by Grace Burrowes is 99c! This is the first book in her newest series and a RITA nominee. A few readers found the romance a bit boring and slow, while others loved the characterization of the heroine and hero.
When I saw Grace Burrowes’ Tremaine’s True Love on the 2016 RITA review list, I grabbed it like a can of insect repellant in high bug season in the Northeast back-country. While I love a well written historical, until this review, I had never read anything by Burrowes. However, I had accidentally purchased a couple of her books a year ago when I was getting ready to write a 2015 RITA review of one of Tonya Burrows’ books. After realizing that the 2015 Burrows’ (no e) book dealt with SEALs and PTSD, I let the Burrowes’ (with an e) books sink down the list of my tbr e-pile, where they then faded into the ether. That was an error!
And Reader K Smith gave it an A-:
I beg you: read the book, don’t think about it. It is delightful, it is entrancing, it is perfectly crafted, emotionally satisfying entertainment. It is not morally improving. Art doesn’t have to be.
