Additional formats on free books:
Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deal:
Anyone can get a
free 90-day subscription to
The New Yorker (
$2.99.month), a weekly periodical for all Kindle eInk devices. If you do decide to continue, you'll also enjoy a much lower monthly cost than the
interactive edition for those with a Kindle Fire, who can also get a free 90-day trial, but are looking at $5.99/month or $59.99/year (although it appears it is free if you are already a print subscriber). I have to admit, I'm enjoying my free trial, even though some of movies (and most of the plays) will never make it to my area (and I really don't need to know who is playing at every night club in NYC). There are book reviews, opinion pages and political content, as well as info on what is going on in the Big Apple.
Book Description
The New Yorker offers a smart, lively, and timely mix of politics and world affairs, business and science, and arts and letters. Its writers and artists, the finest working today, fill the magazine with award-winning reporting, criticism, fiction, poetry -- and cartoons.
The Kindle Edition of The New Yorker will usually include all articles, fiction, and poetry found in the print edition and a selection of cartoons, but will not include other images at this time. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand each Monday.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (
$1.99), by Kate Summerscale, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. I've read a very good recommendation on this one, comparing it to an Anne Perry novel.
Book Description
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable-that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today…from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.
Victim Six (
$1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Gregg Olsen, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $4.73). On both sides of the ocean, though, you can pre-order
The Bone Box at a good price ($1.99 in the US; £1.48
UK).
Victim Six
The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common-except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture...a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. But the dying has only just begun. And next victim will be the most shocking of all...
The Bone Box
They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first. After two decades, Birdy still remembers the screaming. The blood on the boy's hands. The body of a girl, butchered in the woods. Birdy's testimony helped put her cousin behind bars. Now, twenty years later, she wants to reopen the box. Reexamine the evidence. And rekindle her fears that a killer walked free--and is closer than ever.
Final Justice (
$1.98 Kindle,
B&N), a romantic suspense by novel Marta Perry, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. This is her sole contribution to the shared world
Reunion Revelations series (where it is listed as the sixth novel).
Book Description
He was a father? A DNA test revealed that Mason Grant had a nine-year-old daughter. He'd had no idea that the woman he'd loved and so tragically lost had been pregnant. Or that his own child had been in the custody of the woman's murderer all these years.
Now the killer wanted Mason to pay in more ways than one for the return of the girl. And for daring to find love with old friend Jennifer Pappas. But the only payback the cold-blooded murderer would get was final justice.
Training in Your Naked Dating Thong: Preparing to Find the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed), by Harlan Cohen, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store. I'd guess that this will end up being a short ebook, likely promoting Naked Dating: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed & Totally Sober) ... but the title is fun (even if it might not be one you want others on your Kindle account to see).
