Today's Daily Deals include historical fiction (thiller/mystery), a romance, a pulp sci-fi classic, and a kid's book for preschoolers-first grade!
Here's today's Kindle Daily Deal, available for $1.99 today!
The Corpse Reader, by Antonio Garrido.
After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself-or was murdered.
His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí's gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth-especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself.
Inspired by Song Cí, considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during the thirteenth-century Tsong Dynasty draws readers into a multilayered, ingenious plot as disturbing as it is fascinating.
In 2012, The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza).
494 pages, with a 4.2-star rating from 347 reviews. Kindle Owner's Lending Library, Text to Speech, X-Ray, Lending enabled. Whispersync for Voice audiobook available for $0.99 if you purchase this book.
Here's today's Daily Romance Deal, available for $2.99 today!
The Perfect Marriage, by Kimberla Lawson Roby.
The New York Times bestselling novel from the author of the Reverend Curtis Black series...
ADDICTION. DECEPTION.
PRETTY PICTURES HIDE UGLY SECRETS.
Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, Mackenzie, successful careers, and a beautiful home in a posh Chicago suburb. They are attractive, respected . . . and hiding a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
It started innocently enough. Denise occasionally used prescription drugs to help her deal with the long hours and demanding nature of her job. Derrek, also under pressure at work, began using cocaine socially with some of his colleagues.
They can quit whenever they want to. At least, that's what Denise would like to believe . . .
As her job becomes more stressful, Denise can no longer get through the day without a fix. Derrek realizes his harmless habit has become anything but, and desperately wants to get clean. However, his attempts are derailed when there is a sudden family tragedy. Once soul mates, now this husband and wife are quickly losing the immense love that had been the cornerstone of their marriage. With her parents spiraling out of control, Mackenzie makes an unexpected move to take matters into her own hands. Is her sacrifice too late-or is there still hope' Is there a final chance to save the Shaw family'
192 pages, with a 4.3-star rating from 308 reviews. Text to Speech, X-Ray, enabled. Whispersync for Voice audiobook available for $4.99 if you purchase this book.
Here's today's Daily Science Fiction/Fantasy Deal, available for $0.99 today!
Transmigration (Prologue Science Fiction), by J. T. McIntosh.
One man's terrifying journey out of his mind - and into many others!
Fletcher was dying. But it wasn't that simple. His mind refused to follow his body; instead, it moved from brain to brain: young, old, healthy, ill, men, women. But now he found himself in the brain of Charles Searle, the twisted scientist who had altered Fletcher's mind, leaving him a disembodied personality.
Fletcher now shared his brain.
And Searle was dying.
180 pages, with a 4.7-star rating from 3 reviews. Text to Speech, X-Ray, Lending enabled.
Here's today's Kindle Daily Deal, available for $1.99 today!
Sherlock Bones and the Missing Cheese, by Susan Stevens Crummel.
What's that smell in the Dell' It comes from a cheese, a great big cheese, a smelly, scrumptious cheese, if you please, made from the milk of a cantankerous cow-oh, wow! The one-horned, two-eared, three-legged Cowabunga!
But the Cowabunga cheese has gone missing, and Sherlock Bones is on the case! That brainy bloodhound must use all five of his senses to track down the thief.
Children will have fun following the clues in this roll-off-your-tongue read-aloud inspired by the popular children's song "The Farmer in the Dell" and illustrated with Dorothy Donohue's lively signature cut-paper artwork.
38 pages, with a 4.4-star rating from 32 reviews. Kindle Owner's Lending Library, X-Ray, Lending enabled.
Note that this book is compatible with the Kindle Apps for Windows 8, iPad and Android, and the Kindle Fire HD. It won't work (according to the product page) with the original Fire or with eInk Kindles.
Happy Reading!
Betsy
Here's today's Kindle Daily Deal, available for $1.99 today!
The Corpse Reader, by Antonio Garrido.After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself-or was murdered.
His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí's gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth-especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself.
Inspired by Song Cí, considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during the thirteenth-century Tsong Dynasty draws readers into a multilayered, ingenious plot as disturbing as it is fascinating.
In 2012, The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza).
494 pages, with a 4.2-star rating from 347 reviews. Kindle Owner's Lending Library, Text to Speech, X-Ray, Lending enabled. Whispersync for Voice audiobook available for $0.99 if you purchase this book.
Here's today's Daily Romance Deal, available for $2.99 today!
The Perfect Marriage, by Kimberla Lawson Roby.The New York Times bestselling novel from the author of the Reverend Curtis Black series...
ADDICTION. DECEPTION.
PRETTY PICTURES HIDE UGLY SECRETS.
Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, Mackenzie, successful careers, and a beautiful home in a posh Chicago suburb. They are attractive, respected . . . and hiding a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
It started innocently enough. Denise occasionally used prescription drugs to help her deal with the long hours and demanding nature of her job. Derrek, also under pressure at work, began using cocaine socially with some of his colleagues.
They can quit whenever they want to. At least, that's what Denise would like to believe . . .
As her job becomes more stressful, Denise can no longer get through the day without a fix. Derrek realizes his harmless habit has become anything but, and desperately wants to get clean. However, his attempts are derailed when there is a sudden family tragedy. Once soul mates, now this husband and wife are quickly losing the immense love that had been the cornerstone of their marriage. With her parents spiraling out of control, Mackenzie makes an unexpected move to take matters into her own hands. Is her sacrifice too late-or is there still hope' Is there a final chance to save the Shaw family'
192 pages, with a 4.3-star rating from 308 reviews. Text to Speech, X-Ray, enabled. Whispersync for Voice audiobook available for $4.99 if you purchase this book.
Here's today's Daily Science Fiction/Fantasy Deal, available for $0.99 today!
Transmigration (Prologue Science Fiction), by J. T. McIntosh.One man's terrifying journey out of his mind - and into many others!
Fletcher was dying. But it wasn't that simple. His mind refused to follow his body; instead, it moved from brain to brain: young, old, healthy, ill, men, women. But now he found himself in the brain of Charles Searle, the twisted scientist who had altered Fletcher's mind, leaving him a disembodied personality.
Fletcher now shared his brain.
And Searle was dying.
180 pages, with a 4.7-star rating from 3 reviews. Text to Speech, X-Ray, Lending enabled.
Here's today's Kindle Daily Deal, available for $1.99 today!
Sherlock Bones and the Missing Cheese, by Susan Stevens Crummel.What's that smell in the Dell' It comes from a cheese, a great big cheese, a smelly, scrumptious cheese, if you please, made from the milk of a cantankerous cow-oh, wow! The one-horned, two-eared, three-legged Cowabunga!
But the Cowabunga cheese has gone missing, and Sherlock Bones is on the case! That brainy bloodhound must use all five of his senses to track down the thief.
Children will have fun following the clues in this roll-off-your-tongue read-aloud inspired by the popular children's song "The Farmer in the Dell" and illustrated with Dorothy Donohue's lively signature cut-paper artwork.
38 pages, with a 4.4-star rating from 32 reviews. Kindle Owner's Lending Library, X-Ray, Lending enabled.
Note that this book is compatible with the Kindle Apps for Windows 8, iPad and Android, and the Kindle Fire HD. It won't work (according to the product page) with the original Fire or with eInk Kindles.
Happy Reading!
Betsy
