Thru February 28, members at Audible can take advantage of the
Buy One Get One Free Sale, doubling the values of your credits. There will be a different selection every day, so be sure to stop buy and see what is new.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
Dead Asleep (
$0.99), by Jamie Freveletti [HarperCollins], an author that is new to me. At 99 cents, though, it looks like it may be worth taking a chance on. Be careful clicking on her other titles - there is a novella split into 3 "books" at 99 cents apiece. I have no problem with charging $2.99 for a novella of around 120 pages, but why clutter up our libraries with three entries?
Book Description
A former Chicago trial lawyer-turned-critically acclaimed thriller writer, Jaime Freveletti hit the ground running with her debut novel, Running from the Devil—winning a Thriller and a Barry Award and nominations for the Macavity and Crimespree Awards as well. With her fourth novel, Dead Asleep, Freveletti proves she hasn't let up for an instant, plunging her brilliant, tough-as-nails series protagonist, biochemist Emma Caldridge, into a Caribbean island nightmare of voodoo superstition, terrorist plots, and deadly plague. Dead Asleep is intelligent, action-packed suspense fiction—rich in invention and frightening scientific plausibility—that will enthrall fans of Lee Child and Daniel Silva, and Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen readers equally.
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is
Whole Lotta Trouble (
$1.99), by Stephanie Bond. Romance fans will need no introduction (just to go check their libraries - I picked this up on a KDP free promotion last summer).
Book Description
Sometimes the best laid plans go sideways . . .
Three female mystery book editors in Manhattan have personal and professional problems galore--which intersect with one bad-boy agent. When they set out to humiliate their problematic playboy, their plans go horribly awry. The women suddenly realize that when it comes to friendship, flirtation and felony, they're in a WHOLE LOTTA TROUBLE!
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is
The Investigation (
$1.99), by Stanislaw Lem [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]. We've seen several of his titles in Daily Deals recently and I see that one of them,
Return From The Stars, is currently marked down to $2.99, only a dollar over the Daily Deal price, for those that missed it.
Book Description
A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.
Stone Maidens (
£0.99 UK), by Lloyd Devereux Richards, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK. A Daily Deal in the US earlier this month, the
US edition is $4.99/KLL Eligible and the
companion audiobook is $1.99.
Book Description
As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI’s Chicago field office, Christine Prusik has worked her fair share of bizarre cases. Yet this one trumps them all: a serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their bodies in the steep, forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each victim, the killer leaves a calling card: a stone figurine carved like the spirit stones found among the primitive tribes of Papua New Guinea—the same tribes from whom Prusik narrowly escaped a decade earlier while doing field research. The similarity is eerie and, frankly, terrifying; Prusik still carries the scars from the tribesmen’s attack. But is the connection real? Or have the dark details of Prusik’s nightmares finally wormed their way into her waking life? Displaying the expertise of a veteran writer, debut novelist Lloyd Devereux Richards skillfully builds layers of psychological suspense and terror into a compulsively readable whodunit.
Hemingway's Girl ($9.99 Kindle,
$2.99 B&N), by Erika Robuck [Penguin], is the Nook Daily Find. This is an Agency pricing publisher (the lone holdout, I think) and should have already been price matched on Kindle, so wait for it to drop.
Book Description
“She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she’d thought it romantic. She hadn’t understood his warning.”
In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father’s death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway.
When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline, she enters a rarified world of lavish, celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household, the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as straightforward Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway, or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West, Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.
Today's Kindle Teen Daily Deal is
Touch (
$0.99), the first novel in Jus Accardo's
Denazen YA series [Entangled Teen]. Probably not suited for younger teens, as I've glanced thru a review copy and it starts out with a drunken high schooler party, with skateboarding off of a barn roof (at least they land in hay and don't have too many injuries), followed by more drinking. From there, though, the story veers off of a manual on how to upset your parents (although is a tiny bit of a cautionary tale on walking home, alone, thru the woods, afterward). In any case, it seems well written enough that I've sent it to my Kindle to see if it still hooks me when I finish my current re-read of
The Scent of Shadows (which, by-the-way, is still on sale for 99 cents, as are the other 5 titles in the series!).
Book Description
When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home.
Except there’s something off with Kale. He wears her shoes in the shower, is overly fascinated with things like DVDs and vases, and acts like she’ll turn to dust if he touches her. It’s not until Dez’s father shows up, wielding a gun and knowing more about Kale than he should, that Dez realizes there’s more to this boy—and her father’s “law firm”—than she realized.
Kale has been a prisoner of Denazen Corporation—an organization devoted to collecting “special” kids known as Sixes and using them as weapons—his entire life. And, oh yeah, his touch? It kills. The two team up with a group of rogue Sixes hellbent on taking down Denazen before they’re caught and her father discovers the biggest secret of all. A secret Dez has spent her life keeping safe.
A secret Kale will kill to protect.
