Of note is today's Free Android App,
Robin Hood: Twisted Fairy Tales, which combines a game where you find the differences in two scenes with a make-your-own adventure book for kids.
Kind of Blue (
$0.99), by Miles Corwin, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. I bought this one last summer at three times the price.
Book Description
When a legendary ex-cop is murdered in L.A., the pressure's on to find the killer. Lt. Frank Duffy needs his best detective on the case, but his best detective, Ash Levine, quit a year ago.
A tenacious, obsessive detective, Ash resigned after Latisha Patton, the witness in a homicide case he was working, was murdered. Without his job, Ash is left unanchored - and consumed with guilt that he somehow caused Latisha's murder.
When he's asked to rejoin the force, Ash reluctantly agrees. Getting his badge back could give him the chance to find Latisha's killer.Ash dives in headfirst into the shadowlands of Southern California to investigate the ex-cop's murder. But even when he has a suspect in custody, something about this case doesn't sit right with Ash, and he continues working the increasingly dangerous investigation while quietly chasing leads in Latisha's murder.
Unable to let either case go until he has answers, Ash finds that his obsessive nature, which propels him into a world of private compromises and public corruption, is a flaw that might prove fatal.
Dream of Ding Village (
$2.03 / £1.29 UK), by Yan Lianke, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $8.99).
Book Description
Here, China's most controversial novelist takes as his subject the contemporary AIDS blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, where villagers were coerced into selling vast quantities of blood and then infected with the AIDS virus as they were injected with plasma to prevent anemia. Whole villages were wiped out in this way, with no responsibility taken or reparation made.
The Dream of Ding Village focuses on one village, and the story of one family, torn apart when one son rises to the top of the Party pile as he exploits the situation, while another is infected and dies. Narrated by a dead boy and written in finely crafted, affecting prose, the novel presents a powerful absurdist allegory of the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China as it traces the life and death of an entire community.
'I come from the bottom of society. All my relatives live in Henan, one of the poorest areas of China. When I think of people's situation there, it is impossible not to feel angry and emotional. Anger and passion are the soul of my work.' Yan Lianke
The First Counsel (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Brad Meltzer, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle (although it has a different cover at Amazon, the publication dates are the same, even if obviously incorrect when it comes to the ebook editions). This was Meltzer's third novel and was a bestseller, just as the first two were, when it was released in 2000.
Book Description
The runaway bestseller that takes us down the rabbit hole of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
John F. Kennedy, Jr., was Lark.
Amy Carter was Dynamo.
Chelsea Clinton was Energy.
Meet Shadow.
Shadow is the Secret Service code name for First Daughter Nora Hartson. And when White House lawyer Michael Garrick begins dating the irresistible Nora, he's instantly spellbound, just like everyone else in her world. Then, late one night, the two witness something they were never meant to see. Now, in a world where everyone watches your every move, Michael is suddenly ensnared in someone's secret agenda. Trusting no one, not even Nora, he finds himself fighting for his innocence--and ultimately, his life.
