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Friday, March 8, 2013

Today's Deals 3/8, Part I

Amazon doesn't have their Daily Deals up yet, so I'm posting Nook and UK Deals and will catch-up the main Kindle deals later this morning.

I Hunt Killers ($1.99 Kindle, $9.99 B&N), a young adult novel by Barry Lyga, is the Nook Daily Find, but oddly only has price dropped on Kindle! Grab it at Amazon and you also can pick up the companion audiobook for $4.95.

Update: Nearly four hours after their usual time, B&N has finally dropped the price on this title (to $1.99). Do check the price that is shown if you buy there, as sometimes the first several minutes after a drop, not all their servers agree on the price.
Book Description
What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad?

Jasper (Jazz) Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.

But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could--from the criminal's point of view.

And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod.

In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret--could he be more like his father than anyone knows?

A Quiet Flame (£0.99 UK), the fifth title in the Bernie Gunther Mystery series by Philip Kerr, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $12.99).
Book Description
Bernie Gunther returns to trail a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires

When he introduced Bernie Gunther in the original Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr immediately established himself as a thriller writer on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have won him comparisons with Alan Furst, John le Carré, and Graham Greene. A Quiet Flame finds Gunther in Argentina, circa 1950, where he- falsely accused of Nazi war crimes-has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But the tough, fast-talking detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low when a serial killer- whose crimes may reach back to Berlin before the war-is mutilating young girls. Taut, gritty, and loaded with evocative historical detail, A Quiet Flame is among Kerr's best work yet.

Vulgar the Viking and the Terrible Talent Show (£0.99 UK),a children's book by Odin Redbeard, is the second Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $5.99).
Book Description
When the Villagers of Blubber decide to hold a talent show, Vulgar knows it's his time to shine. Will he perform his armpit 'music' or juggle some elk poo? No! He will act out a Viking legend, with fighting and dragons and giants and all that stuff. And he will win! Won’t he?