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Okay, friends, at the recommendation of Cory Doctorow, I just installed libro.fm on my iPhone so I can listen to audiobooks again. I’ve been boycotting Audible for years because of their DRM policy, so this is exciting!

And it made me wonder if there is a similarly enlightened book reader app on iOS. Any suggestions?

Help !

I am trying to remember a book I read in late 90s or early 00s.

Probably YA fantasy. There was a girl who traveled thru a fae circle. I believe it had something to do with a solstice or equinox. There were wolves with magical (golden?) eyes who iirc she could speak to. I want to say it was present day at the time before she was transported.

Does this ring familiar for anyone?

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland.

The fictional Sarclet Castle on the east coast of Caithness south of Wick is visited by two of the characters as the story builds towards its climax. Sarclet Castle is partly based on the Castle of Mey, shown in this image, with some internal elements borrowed from Eilean Donan Castle.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-atw/index.html

The fictional Sarclet Castle, partly based on the real Castle of Mey. The image shows a lawn in the foreground with a drive sweeping round it. Beyond is the front face of a castle made of honey-coloured stone. It has a five-storey tower on the right with a four-storey range to the left of it with a grey slate roof and a two-storey extension on the left, plus a grand entrance in the middle. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the top left corner.

(more accurately, was reading, since I just finished) Helle and Death, a nod to the classic British country house whodunnit with a charming Danish lead — thoroughly enjoyed it, and there’s a sequel out in a few weeks I’ll be sure to get hold of.

(It’s one of those books with a startlingly low rating on Goodreads, I wonder if people were expecting Scandi Noir, or didn’t like the denouement, or who knows. I adored it, YMMV!)


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When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

The manhunt at the heart of the story throws up relics of a conflict that took place two centuries earlier, a conflict commemorated by the Glenfinnan Monument, located not far from the scene of much of the action in the book.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/dol/index.html

The image shows a view across a field of tall grass to the silhouette of a tall circular column which is topped off by a statue of a man. Beyond the column is a loch which extends away into the distance with wooded mountainsides rising on both sides, distantly lost in mist. The sky is light blue. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top right corner.

It's Shameless Promo Thursday again, wherein I remind you that I write books you might like to read.

Up today: The Bed, an urban fantasy about ghosts, demons, angels, and old furniture.

What if you bought a piece of antique furniture and it came fully equipped with a ghost - who had a lot of problems and some very powerful enemies!

* Headstrong heroine
* Annoying boyfriend
* Haunted furniture
* Handsome ghost

Details: https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/the-bed

Book cover of The Bed by Laura Perry, featuring a sepia-toned antique bed hovering above a tiled floor, with a complicated glowing magical symbol floating above it. Behind the book cover is a faded photograph of the front of an antique shop, with a sign board hanging from a metal frame.