This weekend's Kindle Deal is
Ashes to Dust (
$1.99), from Rex Kusler's
Las Vegas Mystery series. Be sure to check out the other winners (
I Am Legend,
Green Day's American Idiot and
Big Kahuna Reef 2: Chain Reaction) and to vote on
next weekend's deal.
Book Description
Since first joining forces in Punctured, Alice James and Jim Snow have been a great—if odd—crime-fighting team. He’s a forty-something former Las Vegas homicide detective who quit the force to become a full-time poker player. She’s a model-turned-cocktail waitress whose foray into casino security led her into law enforcement. Together they are the James & James Detective Agency, and their newest case is a doozy. Jack Roberts comes to them for help solving the brutal murder of his daughter Laura, a cocktail waitress whose body was found burning in the Nevada desert. Among the suspects: an obsessive ex-boyfriend, a mentally unbalanced construction worker, a temperamental roommate, a shady fiancé…perhaps even the client himself! Alice knows that if they can crack this case, business will come pouring in. But first she will have to manage Snow’s ill-timed midlife crisis and deal with the chemistry crackling between them. Ashes to Dust is pure entertainment, sure to please even the most hardboiled of mystery fans.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
The "33 1/3" Series for
99 cents per volume. Get the story behind the album for artists and band such as Johnny Cash, Neutral Milk Hotel, Public Enemy, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, David Bowie and Bob Dylan.
Deal Description
To celebrate today's 27th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, we're offering some of our favorite titles from the brilliant "33 1/3" series, which explores popular music through in-depth examinations of seminal albums, from Exile on Main Street to Paul's Boutique.
- Johnny Cash's American Recordings, by Tony Tost
- Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, by Bill Janovitz
- Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, by Mark Polizzotti
- David Bowie's Low, by Hugo Wilcken
- Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, by Kim Cooper
- Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, by Christopher R. Weingarten
- Kinks' The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, by Andy Miller
- Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, by Jim Fusilli
- The Pixies' Doolittle , by Ben Sisario
- The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, by Dan LeRoy
To Wed a Wicked Earl (
$1.99 Kindle,
Kobo
), by Olivia Parker, is the Kobo Today's Deal, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
He's on the hunt for a bride . . .
Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife—immediately!—or his beloved grandmother will leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would reform for only one woman, the woman he's lusted after—and loved—for years. It's rather unfortunate, then, that Miss Charlotte Greene would never consent to be the blushing bride of a rogue . . . or so he thinks.
Charlotte believes that the earl, the only man whose touch leaves her trembling, would never want a woman like her. Weary of her wallflower ways, Charlotte decides that a friendship with the earl just might give her the excitement she desires. Keeping their true feelings hidden, she and Adam plan a sham ceremony to placate the dowager. But when the "marriage of convenience" takes an unexpected turn, will Charlotte and her wicked earl finally reveal their irresistible, unforgettable love—and delight in a lifetime of passion?
The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is
four books by Gordon Ferris (an "ex-techy in the Ministry of Defence") at
£0.99 / $1.57 each. All are available in the US, but at $8-$10 each.
Bitter Water
This is a declaration to the people of Glasgow. The police are useless and corrupt. We are taking it into our own hands: The Glasgow Marshals. For Douglas Brodie, Glasgow's outbreak of murder and mayhem begins simply enough. A typical Saturday night brawl adds a splash of colour to the morning edition of the Gazette. But Brodie's piece receives a hot-blooded reply - the declaration of a new war upon petty crime signed by a group of vigilantes: The Glasgow Marshals. After his own stint at the Front, Brodie counts himself lucky to be back in his home town, paying his way as the local crime reporter. And although the frustrated, demobbed men of Glasgow are taking an eye for an eye, Brodie has some sympathy for their cause. So when a man is murdered, suspicion automatically falls on the Marshals, and the police are quick to agree. But for Brodie, this crime is all wrong. The Marshals stand for justice, not murder. Amid the heated clash of populace and police, a calculated killing has been ignored. Enlisting the help of advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie begins to investigate the death himself, finding that of course the old saying always holds true: still waters do run deep.
The Hanging Shed
Glasgow, 1946: The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Donovan was dead, shot down in the war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if he had been killed. The man who returned was unrecognizable: mutilated, horribly burned. Donovan keeps his own company, only venturing out for heroin to deaden the pain of his wounds. When a local boy is found raped and murdered, there is only one suspect...
Donovan claims he's innocent but a mountain of evidence says otherwise. Despite the hideousness of the crime, ex-policeman Brodie feels compelled to try and help his one-time friend. Working with Donovan's advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie trawls both the mean streets of the Gorbals and the green hills of western Scotland in their search for the truth. What they find is an unholy alliance of church, police and Glasgow's deadliest razor gang, happy to slaughter to protect their dark secrets. As time runs out for the condemned man, and the tally of murdered innocents rises, Brodie reverts to his wartime role as a trained killer. It's them or him.
The Unquiet Heart
LONDON AND BERLIN, 1946. The perfect partnership - gang-busters by day, lovers by night… Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London.
Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career. It’s an alliance made in heaven. Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths. His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins, and hurls him into the shattered remains of Berlin, where terrorism and espionage foreshadow the bleakness of the Cold War. And Danny begins to lose sight of the thin line between good and evil…
Truth Dare Kill
Memories can lie!
Especially when other people mess with your mind... Danny McRae is a private investigator. He's no Philip Marlowe but what else is a demobbed SOE agent to do now the war is over and the world struggles back to normality? Not that anything will be normal for Danny until he fills the void in his memory which swallowed up an entire mission to France. But first he has a case to investigate. Elegant, upper-class Kate Graveney has made a shocking admission, and Danny needs to get her off the hook. Danny sets off on a hunt through bomb-ravaged London, the bleak cityscape mirroring the ruins of his mind. The head injury which gouged his memory also gives him blackouts: hours, sometimes days, are a complete blank. Newspaper headlines about a brutal killer stalking London's red light district make him uneasy, and a visit from an old adversary awakens dark misgivings. At least there's Valerie � but even she proves elusive. He is assaulted by the police and befriended by the madam of a cat-house. He is torn between his upper class client and the shop girl who believes in him. The odds stack up against Danny and soon he fears for his life. The only escape is through that gap in his memoryï
Highlander's Sword (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Amanda Forester, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
A quiet, flame-haired beauty with secrets of her own...
Lady Aila Graham is destined for the convent, until her brother's death leaves her an heiress. Soon she is caught between hastily arranged marriage with a Highland warrior, the Abbot's insistence that she take her vows, the Scottish Laird who kidnaps her, and the traitor from within who betrays them all.
She's nothing he expected and everything he really needs...
Padyn MacLaren, a battled-hardened knight, returns home to the Highlands after years of fighting the English in France. MacLaren bears the physical scars of battle, but it is the deeper wounds of betrayal that have rocked his faith. Arriving with only a band of war-weary knights, MacLaren finds his land pillaged and his clan scattered. Determined to restore his clan, he sees Aila's fortune as the answer to his problems...but maybe it's the woman herself.
Franklin and the Thunderstorm ($3.82 Kindle,
$2.99 B&N), by Paulette Bourgeois, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.
Book Description
In this Franklin Classic Storybook, Franklin is afraid of thunderstorms. When a storm approaches while he is playing at Fox’s house, a flash of lightning sends Franklin into his shell. He refuses to come out—even for snacks—until his friends make him laugh with their tall tales about what causes storms. And when Beaver explains what really causes thunder and lightning, Franklin begins to feel much safer.
Don't miss grabbing a free audio download of Vanishing Act ($7.99 Kindle), by Thomas Perry, over at Tantor Media. They have the entire series and all of Thomas Perry's audiobooks on sale for 50% off (physical media) or $6.99 for MP3 downloads, as well, thru May 15.
