First up, Jon F. Merz has a free short story, Frosty The Hitman, as a DRM-free download for either your Kindle or nook/EPUB ereader or as a PDF to read on your computer. This is the same author (and same series) as the still free Dead Drop: A Lawson Vampire Bonus Story.Book Description
It’s the day before Christmas and Lawson’s spending it with his least favorite person in the world: Ava, a wealthy Council member who has always hated him. But Ava’s in trouble and Lawson is the only person standing between her and a deadly assassin named Frost.
Robert W. Walker has seven books free on Kindle today, including Grave Instinct (which I picked out solely because some of the other covers are creepy/scary/disturbing). His author bio mentions over 40 books and I've managed to pick up 10 of them this week (to go with the ones I already had).Book Description
A horrifying series of murders has shocked a stretch of America's southern heartland. Not only are women turning up dead, but the killer has removed their brains with chilling surgical precision.
A new murder has sent FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran to Jacksonville, Florida, on a search for answers to the most appalling murder spree she has ever encountered.
But even she can't anticipate the twist her investigation is about to take--one that will give millions of people a front-row seat for the next victim's death.
(This book is tenth in Robert W. Walker's Instinct series, and is approximately 105,000 words. It was originally published in hardcover.)
J.R. Rain has five books free today on Kindle, of which I've selected Elvis Has Not Left the Building, the first in his Elvis Mystery series, to highlight.Book Description
It's tough being the King.
Which is why in 1977 Elvis faked his own death and endured massive facial reconstruction surgery, and disappeared from the limelight to live a normal life as the unassuming Aaron King. Unfortunately, leaving fame behind also meant leaving his fortune behind, too, and now Elvis finds himself broke and living in near poverty in a small apartment in Los Angeles. Luckily for him, it turns out he's a pretty good private investigator.
Now in his seventies and contemplating a return to music (discreetly, of course), Elvis is hired to solve a baffling missing person case. The King digs deeper, and soon finds himself surrounded by the seedier elements of Los Angeles, from nefarious Hollywood producers who prey upon the young, to twin brothers with a very dark secret.
And as Elvis pieces the bizarre puzzle together, he slowly makes his singing comeback—and will be reunited on stage with someone even the King himself never dreamed possible.
Scott Nicholson has another pair of free titles for you today: October Girls (An urban fantasy / paranormal romance) and The Harvest.October Girls (An urban fantasy / paranormal romance)
Five days until Halloween and all hell is about to break loose.
And it’s all Crystal’s fault.
Momma warned her not to consort with the dead and tried to teach her the magic spells that would close the portal to the afterlife. But Crystal doesn’t want to be a trailer-trash witch like Momma. She has dreams of going to community college and escaping the Appalachian town of Parson’s Ford.
Her best friend Bone is only too happy to escape the afterlife and help Crystal break the rules. Bone died too young, and she’ll do whatever it takes to remain among the living.
Then a teen movie maker comes to Parson’s Ford, and he has a very special project in mind: a horror movie starring a real ghost. The kids who watch his movies turn into brainwashed zombies. And to totally complicate matters, Crystal thinks he’s kind of a hunk, and she’s afraid her boyfriend Pettigrew only loves her because of Momma’s magic spells.
Now it’s Halloween, the night when the portal to the afterlife is widest, and somebody’s been messing with Momma’s potions. The fate of the world is in Crystal’s hands, but she hasn’t been paying attention to her lessons. And a mysterious figure in the afterlife is urging Bone to stay loyal to her own kind instead of to Crystal.
The movie is rolling, the creatures are stirring, and the brainwashed teenagers are ready to welcome a new star from the other side of the grave.
Crystal and Bone must overcome drama queens, coffin cuties, and mangled magic if they want to remain best friends forever—but at this rate, forever may not last much longer.
The Harvest
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Scott Sigler ... from the author's preferred edition, published in 2003 by Kensington Books.
An infection that consumes and changes people...
When an alien entity lands in the remote Appalachian Mountains, a clairvoyant psychology professor, a drunken dirt farmer, and a disillusioned tycoon must team up to stop it before the infection spreads.
But with Windshake's annual spring festival coming, the town is full of visitors, unaware of the unnatural menace creeping toward them from the woods...
RIPTIDE fits into Paul Levine's Jake Lassiter series (it was written first, apparently, but was published much later and looks to be about the fifth in chronology, with a previous publication title of Slashback). Levine is a winner of the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG." It looks like the series is very reasonably priced right now, at $2.99/title.Book Description
Jake Lassiter chases a beautiful woman and stolen bonds from Miami to Maui, where in an explosive finale, he learns lessons never taught on the football field or in the courtroom.
Night Corridor, by Joan Hall Hovey, has managed to get some very good reviews, which isn't surprising for this award-winning authorBook Description
After nine years in Bayshore mental institution, once called the lunatic asylum, Caroline Hill is finally being released.
There will be no one to meet her. Her parents who brought her here…are dead.
They have found her a room in a rooming house, a job washing dishes in a restaurant. She will do fine, they said. But no one told that women in St. Simeon are already dying at the hands of a vicious predator. One, an actress who lived previously in her building.
And others.
And now, as Caroline struggles to survive on the outside, she realizes someone is stalking her.
But who will believe her? She's a crazy woman after all.
Then, one cold winter's night on her way home from her job, a man follows and is about to assault her when a stranger intercedes.
A stranger who hides his face and whispers her name.
Since the Kindle Lending Library opened up to KDP authors, there are too many free books daily to list them all. In addition to the ones above, these are a few that caught my eye today and that had good reviews (listed in no particular order):
- A Devil Singing Small, by Karen Charbonneau
- Stay Tuned, by Lauren Clark
- Thicker Than Water (Blood Brothers), by Greg Sisco
- Rex Rising (Elei's Chronicles), by Chrystalla Thoma (also, the short story Hera)
- Six Moon Summer (Seasons of the Moon), by SM Reine
- On Berryhill Road, by Tommie Lyn
- Borrowed Time, by CJ Lyons (New York Times Bestseller with several titles published via Penguin and co-authored on both of Erin Brockovich's books)
- It's A Dog's Life (A DI Lorne Simpkins novellette), by Mel Comley
