Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is Psychopath ($0.99), by Dr. Katherine Ramsland and Marilyn Bardsley.Book Description
H. H. Holmes was a central character in Erik Larson’s hugely successful The Devil in the White City, which is planned as a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Holmes is commonly viewed as a real-life Hannibal Lecter, a devious and cunning serial killer without equal. Holmes used the persona of a successful doctor and entrepreneur to draw untold numbers of young women to his three-story Chicago hotel to experiment on before killing them. Not one to waste, he’d often deflesh the corpses to sell the skeletons to medical schools. He enjoyed trying out methods of murder and watching his victims die. Scientists from his era believed Holmes’ brain would unlock the secret of his perversity, but he denied them the chance to find out. Today, we can figure him out without access to his brain. We know more today about the neuroscience of sadistic psychopaths and we can better understand what his brain – if dissected – would reveal. For the first time, we can look to research findings about killers to decode Holmes’s vile behavior.
An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by Brian Reade, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.39).Book Description
AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. It is the tale of a civil war that dragged Britain's most successful football club to its knees, through the High Court and almost into administration. Players Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher tell of their anger at the broken promises, as well as their pain at watching loyal fans in open revolt. Manager, chief executive, board members, leading fans and journalists reveal the turmoil at a revered sporting institution run by two men at war with each other, who trampled Liverpool's cherished traditions into the gutter. No story sums up the naked greed at the heart of modern football quite like Hicks' and Gillett's attempt to turn a buck at Liverpool. No-one has had as much access to the truth, or tells it with as much passion, wit and insight as Brian Reade. AN EPIC SWINDLE is the riveting story of how close one of the great football clubs came to financial implosion.
Catch of the Day ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Kristan Higgins, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. At B&N, there are two editions, both on sale - the link is for the newest of the two; at Amazon, there are also two editions, only one on sale price, and it appears to be the older edition (but cuter cover).Book Description
What's the market price on a decent guy these days?
Maggie Beaumont's luck is about to change. Sure, she's known for her bad romantic choices—her former boyfriend broke up with her by bringing his new girlfriend home for a visit. And then there was the crush she had on a gorgeous young Irishman, who turned out to be Father Tim, the parish's new priest.
But romantic salvation has arrived in the form of handsome, if surly, fisherman Malone. It turns out there's a heart of gold underneath his barnacle-clad exterior. Will this catch of the day turn into the dish of a lifetime?
Winnie the Pooh: Party in the Wood ($4.99 paperback. 4-for-3 eligible; $3.99 B&N), by Lisa Ann Marsoli and Disney Storybook Artists, is the Nook Daily Find for Families (requires NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet); no Kindle edition.Book Description
When Pooh and his friends set out to find the perfect tail for Eeyore (since his is missing), the fun ends happily with a party in the Hundred-Acre Wood! The storybook includes over 20 stickers!
