B1G1F on Kindle: Stan Jones

Through December 31st, 2009, buy the latest (Vol 4) in Stan Jone's State Trooper Nathan Active Mysteries series, Village of the Ghost Bears ($9.99), and receive a free download of the first in the series, White Sky, Black Ice (normally $9.99).

Village of the Ghost Bears
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire at the Chukchi Recreation Center that killed eight people, including the town’s basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar bear poaching operation and the intense bond between a brother and sister from the village of Cape Goodwin, famous in the Arctic for twins, polar bears, and schizophrenia. The heart of the matter, he discovers, is a dead woman whose killer remembers her as having a mouth so sweet “it was like kissing a Hershey bar.”

White Sky, Black Ice
An Alaskan State trooper must satisfy both Eskimo and "white man's" justice.

Trooper Nathan Active, child of a fifteen-year-old unmarried Inupiat Eskimo girl, was given up for adoption and raised in Anchorage, where he graduated from the university. Now that he has been posted to his remote birth village, Chukchi, he longs to return to civilization. Before that happens, he is confronted with atypical suicides. Eskimos are notoriously at risk for self-slaughter, but never has one man after another shot himself in the Adam's apple. Can a shaman's curse really be at work?

Lucy Generous is a beautiful villager who is enlivening Nathan's tour of duty. Nathan's mother tells him to beware; she wants him to find a girl who went to college and has a good job. But with Lucy's help, the nalauqmiiyaak (almost white) state trooper begins to understand his Eskimo heritage, which provides him with the solution to the crimes that he is confronted with.

Four for the Price of One - Patricia Cornwell (EPUB)

Those whose ereaders will handle DRM'd EPUB can get Four Scarpetta Novels, by Patricia Cornwell, for $9.99 at Shortcovers, today only.

This is the same deal you can get on Kindle for $7.99 and contains the following books: The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Predator and Book of the Dead, which are the 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th books in the Kay Scarpetta series (yes, it skips over #13, Trace), each of which sells separately for $7.99. See this earlier post for book descriptions.

Click HERE for to get the EPUB version at Shortcovers.

B1G1F on Kindle: Kate Atkinson

Through December 31st, 2009, buy Case Histories ($7.99), by Kate Atkinson, and receive a free download of One Good Turn (normally $9.99). These are the first two books in her Jackson Brodie series.

Case Histories
Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.

Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.

Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.

Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .

One Good Turn
On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders.The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme.Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last.

You can get a similar deal in the Sony store, but the cost is $14.99 for the "Kate Atkinson 2-in-1 Bundle"

Free Audiobook - Come Toy With Me

Get a free, unabridged audiobook of Come Toy with Me ($3.60 Harlequin), by Cara Summers, courtesy of Harlequin and Audible.

Book Description
Rugged Dino Angelis, navy captain and special ops agent, has the family Sight. But even that couldn't have prepared him for his hungry reaction to Cat McGuire--toy-store owner, smuggling ring suspect...and his new charge.

Only, Dino can't believe the sexy woman under his protection is a crook. Not when she can plant a kiss hot enough to melt all his good intentions...

For Cat, Christmas is always a hectic season. But this year she's agreed to a fake engagement, too, just to keep the family peace. It wouldn't be so bad, if only Cat could keep her hands off her new fiance. After all, he's strong, he's sexy...he's the perfect boy toy. Or he is--until Cat discovers she's just another one of his assignments....

Click HERE for the free audiobook, narrated by Marie Zihlman.

Free Book at ShortCovers - The Fury

The Fury ($5.47 Kindle), by Jason Pinter, is available for free, today only, from ShortCovers.

Book Description
Am I my brother's keeper?

If I'd known I had a brother, I might have been. But he's dead--shot point-blank in a rat-hole apartment, wasted by hunger and heroin. Stephen Gaines, a man with whom I shared nothing...except a father.

For some reason this stranger who shared my blood came to me for help...and I blew him off thinking he was just some junkie. Now I'm forced to question everything I ever knew...and figure out why this man was murdered in cold blood.

All I can do for Stephen Gaines now is find his killer--and with the help of Amanda Davies uncover the whole, hard truth. If it means tracking down a vicious drug kingpin--who may or may not exist--then so be it....

Click HERE for the free book. The only issue I have with it, is that you have to read it online, one chapter at a time, in your web browser. You can do that today without adding it to your library (if you're a fast reader, perhaps?), but be sure to add it to your library there (you'll need an account), which should ensure it stays available so you can finish it (at least, I hope so, as I can't finish it today, either).