Wednesday 3 June 2015

Today's Kindle Books

Today's Kindle Books


More Bargain and Free Books for 6-3-15

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 06:30 AM PDT

Check out another set of 3 bargain books and 2 freebies.

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BARGAIN BOOKS



The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire
by Sandra Hutchison
Rating: 4.4 Stars
Genre: Literary Fiction
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“Sandra Hutchison writes beautifully transparent and unpretentious prose. She creates complex characters and a vivid sense of place….In other words, she’s a first-rate writer.” -Awesome Indies

#1 Amazon Bestselling and Award-Winning Author

Will they or won’t they? Should they or shouldn’t they? It's the summer of 1977 in a small college town, and physics professor David Asken has just lost his young family in a plane crash he somehow survived. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael used to be the babysitter, but now will be keeping house for him while he recuperates.

David’s quietly planning to end his life just as soon as he can drive again. Molly’s trying to cope with being known as Tampon Girl, thanks to a sculpture by her notorious artist mother, but she will have to deal with much worse after a drunken teenage party.

In this engrossing coming-of-age novel by the author of The Awful Mess, both man and girl must grow up the hard way, and it's their unexpectedly tender connection, fraught with potential scandal, that may just help them do it. This provocative novel asks: Is there ever a time when doing the wrong thing might be exactly right?

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The Law and Disorder Boxset
by Sharon Ihle
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Genre: Historical Romance
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The Law and Disorder Boxset – Nook

“…just the right dose of humor and steam.” -Literary Times

Award-Winning Author

TO LOVE A SCOUNDREL: She lives for danger. He lives for passion. When Bret spies the secret fire burning behind Jewel’s disguise, both he and Jewel are searching for robbers. But what they find is a treasure more precious than gold.

THE OUTLAW WAS NO LADY: Rayna Sebastiani is tired of living on the run. Luther ‘Gant’ Gantry is a former outlaw and part owner of a floating circus. Neither can stand the other, but the all-consuming passion growing between them is proving harder to deny.

A LAWMAN FOR MAGGIE: Maggie Thorne and her daughter Holly have waited seven years for Holly’s father to return. Hopefully this year will be different, with the help of Texas Ranger, Matt Weston. But fate has other plans.

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Crock Pot – 365 Days of Crock Pot Recipes
by Emma Katie
Rating: 3.9 Stars
Genre: Cooking
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“A definite must-have for crock pot cooking.” -TrishFLReader

Amazon Bestselling Author

365 Days of Crock Pot Recipes Slow cookers are a new and innovative way of cooking food that has gained more and more terrain in the last couple of years due to multiple benefits, such as:
• Slowly cooking the food for a longer time
• Allowing flavors to develop slowly and steadily
• Economical
• Safe to use
• Efficient
• Healthier and more nourishing

This book focuses on each and every one of these benefits, offering a wide array of recipes, from mouthwatering breakfast recipes to amazing beverages, without forgetting about lunch, dinner and dessert.

In addition to mouthwatering recipes like:
• Zucchini Frittata
• Cheddar Grits
• Hawaiian Chicken
• Pork Cabbage Rolls
• Moist brownie Cake
• The Ultimate Hot Chocolate are heaven for the taste buds!

It's a great book to have in a house for both beginners and experts at slow cooking! Because it doesn't take superhuman cooking skills to cook in a crock pot! That simple and fun it is! For no more than 20 minutes of prepping, you get to enjoy the smell and taste of freshly cooked food at home!

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FREE BOOKS

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Saving Grace
by J.E. Taylor
Rating: 4.8 Stars
Genre: Paranormal
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Saving Grace – Nook
Saving Grace – Apple iBooks
Saving Grace – Google Play
Saving Grace – Kobo

When CJ Ryan’s girlfriend decides life is less complicated without him, CJ travels a destructive path into despair, walking the line between what’s right and what feels good. But what feels good is a dangerous slope to travel, especially when Lucifer wages war for his soul.

One wrong step and CJ could fall into the devil’s trap, becoming no better than the demons he battles.

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Insight
by Jamie Magee
Rating: 4.2 Stars
Genre: Young Adult
Price: $0.00 Save $14.23
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Insight – Nook
Insight – Apple iBooks

Willow Haywood has always been trapped between the worlds of the Light and the Dark. Her waking hours are plagued by her ability to feel the emotions of those around her. No matter how inward she draws, she cannot shut out the feelings of others. Sometimes she will see images – echoes of other people and places – that she can enter to influence the emotions of people she has never met.

By night, Willow experiences her only escape from this terrible insight – entering into the world of dreams. Most of these dreams are shared in blissful silence with a stunning blue-eyed boy. But every new moon she lives through something much darker: a horrific nightmare shared by another mysterious boy who is always shrouded by shadows.

One night, this shadowy figure invades her dreams outside of his appointed time. In this new nightmare, Willow is marked; a mark which follows her into the waking world and sets her on a momentous path through light and darkness, through fragmented myth and half-truths, through past lives and disturbing family secrets, all in the face of the ever-dominant Zodiac. What she finds will endanger the lives of those closest to her and will force her to make a decision that will change her world forever.

 

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More ENT Deals for 6-3-15

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 06:12 AM PDT

Here's a set of 3 bargain books and 2 free books for your Wednesday reading enjoyment.

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BARGAIN BOOKS



Peril
by R. A. Barnes
Rating: 4.4 Stars
Genre: Thriller and Suspense
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“…a picaresque novel in which the reader follows the twists and turns of our deplorable hero’s career. A book out of the ordinary run…” -Jim Williams, Booker Prize nominee

A moment of madness. His choices. Their lives.

Gerard Mayes is in a mess. During a mugging gone wrong, he kills his assailant and becomes the blackmail target of a vicious Romanian crime gang. In a deadly struggle to cast off the gang’s net, Ger becomes more entangled.

Can he find a way out and save those he loves?

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Blood Red – The Complete First Season
by Vivian Wolkoff
Rating: 4.3 Stars
Genre: Paranormal
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“I was enthralled throughout the entire first season! Now I can’t wait for season two….” -Shirley S.

For Evie Williams the world is very simple. Routine is good. Excitement is bad. Evie's friends think her life is boring but she's happy to play by her self-imposed rules. A boring life is a safe life.

But there's more to the world than Evie could possibly imagine. Vampires, witches and pro-Humanity terrorists are very real. And Evie has the rare ability to sense the preternatural world around her. Evie's beloved grandma, who also had this strange gift, fought to kill all preternatural creatures – and wanted Evie to follow in the bloody family business.

Chris is a vampire. He's been charged by his sire to study Evie and lure her into joining their clan. Someone with her gift would make a powerful, and rare, vampire. But loyalty to his sire is not why Chris keeps coming back for more snarky comments and film references. Evie is fascinating. She's the only woman who has ever said no to Chris – with or without his hypnotic glamor.

Chris wants Evie – body, heart and soul– all too himself. But can he turn his back on his clan and open his heart to Evie? Can Evie choose between her heart and her family's secret legacy?

Blood Red- The Complete First Season is a story of alpha male billionaire vampires turned heroes, damsels who refuse to be in distress turned superheroes and political conflicts solved by fights to the death.

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Something To Dream On
by Diane Rinella
Rating: 5.0 Stars
Genre: Womens Fiction
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“It’s an epic journey through self-doubt, pain and forgiveness painted boldly in Diane’s unconventional style. It made me laugh out loud and cry hot tears of sadness with its powerful message.” -Agents of Romance

Top 100 Amazon Bestselling Author

If a painting in the home of your perfect man reflects your dreams of doom, do you run, or do you dare to embrace love?

While Lizetta lives a life of compassion, childhood bullying over a few extra pounds have caused this sparky woman to lose sight of the beauty of her soul. Jensen's recent past is filled with substance abuse, shady morals, and loose women. A brutal wake up call forced him to find his way back to the gentle soul he once was; however, there are some whose futures depend on the return of the demon.

Souls can heal, but how long can they fight the forces that seek to destroy them? If one of those forces is the person who shattered your self-image, and she is determined to take down the one you love, could you still believe that everyone deserves a second chance?

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FREE BOOKS

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Viejo and the Ranger
by Cliff Hudgins
Rating: 4.0 Stars
Genre: Action and Adventure
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Jason Bernard Ramsey II is a man of faith…but he becomes Jack Short, a man who kills whoever gets in his way. He discovers two skills he did not know he had…a fast draw and the ability to kill without remorse.

He’s at odds with his faith and the law. If you break the law in Texas, you must answer to the Texas Rangers. This duty falls upon Lee Brannon. In a strange twist of fate, Viejo joins with the ranger in the pursuit of other outlaws, and discovers there is no real code of ethics among thieves and no misdeeds go unpunished.

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The Forest Bull
by Terry Maggert
Rating: 4.2 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Price: $0.00 Save $9.95
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Three lovers. Two immortals. One mystery.

When Ring Hardigan isn't making sandwiches for, and with, his two partners, Waleska and Risa (they're cool like that), he's got a busy schedule doing the dirty work of sending immortals to the ever after. Wally and Risa provide linguistics, logistics, and finding the right place for him and his knife.

A reclusive Baron from the timelost forests of Europe asks for their help—find a stolen collection of jewelry, and find the thief—his daughter Elizabeth, an immortal of purest evil who wants nothing less than control of Hell itself. With the help of a 2400 year old succubus hooker named Delphine, they might just live long enough to discover what is evil, who is human, and exactly who wants to reign in hell.

 

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More Ereader Deals for 6-3-15

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:56 AM PDT

Here's another collection of 4 bargain books and 2 free books for your reading enjoyment.

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BARGAIN BOOKS



Summer in Snow Valley – Box Set
by Various Authors
Rating: 4.7 Stars
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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“…every author displayed a unique writing style of their own. I loved them all!” -CeeCee Lawson/The Literary Melting Pot

#1 Amazon Bestselling and Award-Winning Authors

Catching Caytie by Amazon Top Seller Cindy Roland Anderson

On the night Caytie Holbrook intends to break up with her cheating boyfriend, he blindsides her by announcing their engagement at a dinner party. When Caytie discovers her father is in on the scheme, she runs away from her home in Beverly Hills to hide out at her uncle’s ranch in Snow Valley, Montana. While Snow Valley is a beautiful place, Caytie only plans to stay until her twenty-fifth birthday when she’ll inherit a trust fund her grandmother left her, allowing her to pursue her dream to move to Italy. That is until she meets Jace McAllister, an incredibly sexy–although somewhat grumpy–cowboy who threatens to disrupt her plans.

Tin Foil Tiaras by Amazon Top Seller Jeanette Lewis

Cameron Elliott has come to Snow Valley to coach Annalisa Drake in the Miss Snow Valley pageant, and prove to her demanding boss that she deserves a place at the prestigious Westbrooke Agency. But Annalisa’s handsome and protective big brother, Kyle, is determined to keep his sister from becoming a reluctant beauty queen. As Cameron tries to win Kyle over, Kyle insists some things are more valuable than a title and as crazy as it sounds, Cameron might just believe him.

A Touch of Love by Amazon Top Seller Cami Checketts

Annie Stirland has endured a lifetime of teasing, embarrassment, and isolation due to her speech impediment. When irresistible cowboy, Luke Wilson, seems to be falling for her, she’s certain he’s too good to be true. A tragedy involving his ex-girlfriend proves she’s right. What man can resist sheltering someone they once loved? Annie knows she should walk away, but Luke isn’t ready to give her up.

First Love by Amazon Top Seller Taylor Hart

Janet Snow doesn’t expect to get caught in a full-blown make out session at her brother’s wedding. Especially not with Michael Hamilton, the boy she’d written off ten years ago. Even though they both agree to no complications, Janet’s not sure they can stick to it given their past. After a trip to the hot springs, a helicopter ride, and a proposal, even the most cautious single mother would start to wonder if true love really is just about the timing. Now Janet has to make a choice–play it safe or trust that her first love could also be her last.

Romancing Rebecca by Amazon Top Seller and Award-winning Author Kimberley Montpetit

Rebecca Dash loved spending her teen summers swooning over Jane Austin and helping her aunt at the Starry Skies Bed and Breakfast in Snow Valley. But as a recent college grad, she’d rather write sappy romance novels than go out with guys that make her a nervous wreck. When a team of fire-fighters set up camp on the lawns of the Bed and Breakfast and Captain Wade catches her eye, Becca soon learns that there’s more to a happily-ever-after than a flirty firemen with muscles the size of the Montana hills.

Love in Light and Shadow by Amazon Top Seller and Award-winning Author Lucy McConnell

Mercedes O’Shay has sworn off gorgeous men because they have a tendency to break her heart. When she meets her new neighbor, Chet Bauer, she immediately puts him in the Do Not Date category based on his well-defined muscles and stunning blue eyes. But the more Mercedes learns about the cowboy who reads classics and forges iron, the more she realizes the heart doesn’t see in black and white; it sees light and shadows.

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Crescent City Fae Complete Boxed Set (Books, 1-3)
by Deanna Chase
Rating: 4.9 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
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Crescent City Fae Complete Boxed Set (Books, 1-3) – Nook
Crescent City Fae Complete Boxed Set (Books, 1-3) – Apple iBooks
Crescent City Fae Complete Boxed Set (Books, 1-3) – Google Play
Crescent City Fae Complete Boxed Set (Books, 1-3) – Kobo

“Love this series!! The plot, characters, dialogue…everything. Great Job Ms. Chase!!” -Romantically Jaded

NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author

Influential Magic:
It’s tough being a faery in New Orleans, a city fraught with vampires… especially when their very existence drains your life-force.

Willow Rhoswen, owner of The Fated Cupcake and part-time vampire hunter for the Void is having a rough week. Four years after her twin brother’s mysterious death, Willow’s life is threatened and the director saddles her with a new partner–her ex-boyfriend, David. To her horror, he’s turned vamp, which causes her physical pain whenever she touches him… and any other specimen of the undead.

In order to save Willow’s life, David agrees to turn double agent against the most powerful vampire organization in New Orleans. Or so he says. And she’s convinced they know something about her brother’s death. Unsure where David’s loyalties lie, she turns to Talisen, her childhood crush, to help her solve the mystery.

Caught between two gorgeous men and a director who’ll stop at nothing to control Willow’s gifts, she’ll have to follow her instincts and learn who to trust. Otherwise, she risks losing more than just her life.

Irresistible Magic:
Finding the perfect dress can be hell… especially when a stranger tries to gun you down in broad daylight.

Void agent and magical baker extraordinaire, Willow Rhoswen has been anticipating her first date with Talisen Kavanagh since she was sixteen. After eight years of waiting, there are only two things that can stand in her way–an assassination attempt and a new game-changing drug.

Talisen’s invented a new elixir that creates superhumans, ones that can rival vampire strength, and everyone wants it. Including the vampires. With Willow’s life on the line, he makes a deal with the devil, while she’s forced to accept the always-strings-attached protection from the most notorious vampire organization in New Orleans.

But when Talisen and his drug go missing, Willow will stop at nothing to find him, even if it means working with her vampire-ex, David. With souped-up humans, dangerous vampires, and more questions than answers, Willow has less than twenty-four hours to find him before everything changes forever.

Intoxicating Magic:
Willow Rhoswen is finally coming to terms with the fact that Talisen–the healer she thought was the love of her life–has left town and is trying to move on when a rogue vampire poisons three of Allcot’s guards. With his most trusted security team on the verge of death, the notorious Cryrique leader orders Willow to bring Talisen back to New Orleans before it’s too late.

But when she gets to her hometown of Eureka, California, Willow once again finds herself the target of her brother’s murderer. And suddenly no one is who they seem. With spies, secrets, and undercover missions to navigate, Willow’s determined to not only survive but to do whatever it takes to protect the ones she loves, all while hopefully getting her happily-ever-after.

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The Dane Maddock Adventures Boxed Set Volume 1
by David Wood
Rating: 5.0 Stars
Genre: Action and Adventure
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"A non-stop thrill ride triple threat- smart, funny and mysterious!" -Jeremy Robinson, author

Looking for a modern-day version of Indiana Jones? Dane Maddock is your man! Ancient mysteries, lost cities, Biblical artifacts, and action and thrills abound. This box set omnibus edition includes the first three books in the Dane Maddock Adventures series plus a bonus story.

DOURADO
A sunken treasure. An ancient Biblical artifact. A mystery as old as humankind.

In 1829, the Portuguese brig Dourado sank off the coast of Indonesia, losing its cargo of priceless treasures from the Holy Land. One of these lost relics holds the key to an ancient mystery. But someone does not want this treasure to come to light. When her father is murdered while searching for the Dourado, Kaylin Maxwell hires treasure hunter and former Navy Seal Dane Maddock and his partner Uriah "Bones" Bonebrake, to locate the wreckage and recover a lost Biblical artifact, the truth behind which could call into question the fundamentally held truths of human existence. Join Maddock and Bones on a perilous adventure that carries them from the depths of the Pacific to ancient cities of stone as they unravel the mystery of the Dourado.

CIBOLA
Dane Maddock returns in another unforgettable adventure! When Maddock rescues beautiful archaeologist Jade Ihara, he joins her on a search for the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola. Cibola takes the reader on a journey across the American southwest, where the ruins of the mysterious Anasazi hide deadly secrets, and foes lurk around every corner. Maddock and his partner “Bones” Bonebrake must decipher clues from the fabled Copper Scroll, outwit their enemies, and be the first to unlock the secret of Cibola.

QUEST
Dane Maddock is back. Deep in the Amazon, a university group encounters a horror beyond their darkest nightmares and vanishes without a trace. Called upon to undertake a daring rescue mission, Maddock and Bones must trace the true path of Percy Fawcett’s final expedition, but the secret that lies at the end of the search might be even deadlier than the enemies who seek it. From the streets of London to remote islands in the Atlantic, to the deadly jungles of the Amazon, Maddock and Bones must penetrate a secret lost to history, on their deadliest Quest.

AZTLAN
In a remote area of the American Southwest Dane and Bones stumble upon a place out of legend that changes their world.

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Speak of the Devil
by Shawna Romkey
Rating: 4.8 Stars
Genre: Young Adult
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“The writing is impeccable, and the characters seem so real that you truly hesitate to put it down…..The author has really created a wonderful new series that should not be missed, whatever age you are.” -Bitten by Books, 5 stars

What happens when falling in love and falling from grace collide?

After dying in a car accident with her two best friends, Lily miraculously awakens to grief and guilt. She escapes to her dad's to come to terms with the event and meets some people at her new school who seem all too eager to help her heal. Sliding deeper into sorrow and trying to fight her feelings for two of them, she discovers who…what they really are and learns they are falling too.

Can she find the strength to move on from the past, reconcile her feelings for Luc, figure out how to stop a divine war with fallen angels, and still pass the eleventh grade?

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The Fairy Tale Bride
by Kelly McClymer
Rating: 3.8 Stars
Genre: Historical Romance
Price: $0.00 Save $2.99
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The Fairy Tale Bride – Nook
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The Fairy Tale Bride – Google Play
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Miranda Fenster was known as the Fairy Tale Miss during the one disastrous London season that convinced her she would never have a happily-ever-after. But when her brother’s elopement is thwarted by the stubbornly proper Duke of Kerstone, Miranda sets off to convince the duke to champion her brother’s cause for love.

Unfortunately, he is too proper to consider love, or any matters of the heart, a suitable reason for marriage, and too proper not to marry Miranda when they find themselves compromised. Now, Miranda is an unexpected duchess caught up in a marriage-of-convenience with a man she has loved from afar.

The new duchess is sure of only one thing: she has a second chance for happily-ever-after, if she can uncover her new husband’s darkest secret, and make him believe that fairytale endings can be real.

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Hopebreaker
by Dean F. Wilson
Rating: 4.3 Stars
Genre: Science Fiction
Price: $0.00 Save $12.99
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Award-Winning Author

In the world of Altadas, there are no more human births. The Regime is replacing the unborn with demons, while the Resistance is trying to destroy a drug called Hope that the demons need to survive.

Between these two warring factions lies Jacob, a man who profits from smuggling contraceptive amulets into the city of Blackout. He cares little about the Great Iron War, but a chance capture, and an even more accidental rescue, embroils him in a plot to starve the Regime from power.

When Hope is an enemy, Jacob finds it harder than he thought to remain indifferent. When the Resistance opts to field its experimental landship, the Hopebreaker, the world may find that one victory does not win a war.

 

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Book Of The Day – She Shall Have Murder

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:10 AM PDT

Today's Book of the Day is a Classic Mystery by Delano Ames and it's 80% off for a limited time. She Shall Have Murder has a 4.6 star rating and is on sale for only 99 cents – save $4!

“Written with wit and the clever style of the 1950s amateur sleuth mysteries, this was a most enjoyable and entertaining read. Even 60+ years on, it has lost none of it’s charm.” Lesley – Amazon Reviewer



She Shall Have Murder
by Delano Ames
Rating: 4.6 Stars
Genre: Mystery
Price: $0.99 save $4

 

Dagobert Brown's always got a new hobby. He’s been through Gregorian chant, wildflowers, sixteenth-century French poetry . . . But his latest hobby is murder—or at least, the murder mystery he wants Jane Hamish to write.

No-nonsense, sharp-witted Jane only has one weakness: Dagobert, who exasperates her and intrigues her in equal parts. "Dagobert is my hero," she says, "but he persistently refuses to act like one."

Mrs. Robjohn seems like the perfect victim for Jane's book: a lonely, delusional spinster who haunts the law offices where Jane works, telling everyone who'll listen that sinister men are following her. When Mrs. Robjohn's found dead of gas poisoning in her flat, Dagobert won't believe it's an accident.

Dragging Jane with him through 1940s London, from pub to nightclub to deserted warehouse district, Dagobert throws himself enthusiastically—if eccentrically—into sleuthdom, determined to track down a real-life killer.

In their easy camaraderie and witty banter, Dagobert and Jane bring to mind Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora, but Jane is every inch Dagobert's intellectual equal and partner in detection.

A classic Golden Age mystery, She Shall Have Murder, the first in Delano Ames's Dagobert and Jane Brown series, stands up to the best in its genre today. But its absorbing portrayal of life in London between the wars adds another dimension, highlighted in this annotated Manor Minor Press edition.

Here’s what the reviewers have to say:

It is always a pleasure to read The Rue Morgue Press mysteries. They take us back to another genteel, in many ways more intelligent, time. Delano Ames creates an easy camaraderie between Jane and Dagobert, making for an easy, elegant whodunit.

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Sucks you in from page one. It’s written so that it just flows from page to page and it’s a really enjoyable read.

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Delano Ames’s writing is delightfully wry, and Dagobert and Jane are a lively, smart-talking pair. Dagobert delights in tricking suspects and driving them a little crazy with his antics, while Jane often tries to puncture Dagobert’s bumptiousness with a well-placed dart or two. Jane is an active partner in the sleuthing; a supremely intelligent young woman who is up to the challenge of solving the crime.

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I liked the unique way that this book was written. I had a few good laughs and enjoyed the way the discovery of the murdered was presented. I also enjoyed the references to entertainers of that time period.

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I very much enjoyed reading this amateur sleuth mystery from the Golden Age of British mysteries. Besides the writing, I particularly enjoyed Jane, the narrator’s, views of writing a mystery book, her office colleagues, and her boyfriend’s life-style, although he could sometimes be a little irritating.

Get She Shall Have Murder here: She Shall Have Murder

About The Author

Delano Ames (May 29, 1906 – January 1987) was an American writer of detective stories. Ames was the author of some 20 books, many of them featuring a husband and wife detective team of amateurs named ‘Dagobert and Jane Brown’. A later series of novels involved a character named Juan Lorca, of the Spanish Civil Guard, who solved local mysteries.

Born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Delano’s father Benjamin worked for the local newspaper, but moved the family in 1917 to New Mexico.

Ames married Australian born writer, Maysie Greig (1901-1971) in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1929. Greig was a prolific author of light-hearted romance novels. They divorced in 1937.

Ames lived in England for the next few years, where he married his second wife, Kit, and was assigned as a British intelligence officer during World War II. He also worked on anthologies on mythology and as a translator for Larousse in France. His last book was an introduction for a book of photography of Spain in 1971.

He died in Madrid, Spain, in January 1987.

Thank you for considering today’s Book Of The Day – Delano Ames and ENT appreciate it.

 

Bargain and Free Books for 6-3-15

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:04 AM PDT

Here are 4 bargain books and 2 free books for you to enjoy.

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BARGAIN BOOKS



Passing Through Perfect
by Bette Lee Crosby
Rating: 4.8 Stars
Genre: Literary Fiction
Price: $1.99 Save $4.00
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“Well-written and engaging, readers will welcome back characters from previous Wyattsville books.” -Kirkus Reviews

USA Today, Amazon Bestselling and Multi Award-Winning Author

It's 1946. The war is over. Millions of American soldiers are coming home and Benjamin Church is one of them. After four years of being away he thought things in Alabama would have changed, but they haven't. Grinder's Corner is as it's always been—a hardscrabble burp in the road. It's not much, but it's home.

When Benjamin attends a harvest festival in Twin Pines, he catches sight of Delia. Before their first dance ends, he knows for certain she's the one. They fall madly in love; happily, impatiently, imprudently, in love. It doesn't matter that her daddy is staunchly opposed to the thought of his daughter marrying a cotton farmer, never mind a poor one.

It's true Benjamin has little to offer; he's a sharecropper who will spend his whole life sweating and slaving to do little more than put food on the table. But that's how things are in Alabama. Benjamin is better off than most; he has a wife, a boy he adores, and a house that doesn't leak rain. Yes, Benjamin considers himself a lucky man until the fateful night that changes everything.

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Deceiving The Groom
by Lisa Shadow
Rating: 4.8 Stars
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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“This book has just the right amount of suspense, romance, and humor. I really enjoyed it…” -LeeAnne

Revenge is a dish best served in the bedroom.

Claire arrives in Hopetown with one plan–con the ruthless magnate who tore her life apart. But Liam Channing does not appear to be the cold-hearted villain she has plotted to gleefully ruin. Revenge on the man who stole her family farm and rendered them destitute, should be reason enough for her fortitude of steel, especially when it’s her only shot at winning custody of her baby sister. Yet, somehow Liam has a way of reducing Claire’s defenses to fluff.

Unfortunately Claire’s nagging doubts do little to sway her cousin, Geoff, from their plan to con Liam Channing out of half his wealth. Geoff won’t let his prize go without drawing more than a little blood.

When Liam awakens with no memory of his drunken Vegas wedding, the con is on. But with love and loyalties warring, Claire must decide if she will take the final steps to destroy the man who has captured her heart.

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Deadly Obsession
by Kristine Cayne
Rating: 4.4 Stars
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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“….Cayne’s entrance into the suspense genre is invigorating, explosive and simply intoxicating.” -RT Book Reviews

Multi Award-Winning Author

When an Oscar-winning movie star meets a department-store photographer…

Movie star Nic Lamoureux appears to have a playboy's perfect life. But it's a part he plays, an act designed to conceal a dark secret he carries on his shoulders. His empty days and nights are a meaningless blur until he meets the woman who fulfills all his dreams. She and her son are the family he's always wanted—if she can forgive a horrible mistake from his past.

A Hollywood dream…

Lauren James, a widowed single mother, earns barely enough money to support herself and her son. When she wins a photography contest and meets Nic, the man who stars in all her fantasies, her dreams, both professional and personal, are on the verge of becoming real. The attraction between Lauren and Nic is instant—and mutual. Their chemistry burns out of control during a photo shoot that could put Lauren on the fast track to a lucrative career.

Becomes a Hollywood nightmare

But an ill-advised kiss makes front-page news, and the lurid headlines threaten everything Nic and Lauren have hoped for. Before they know what's happening, their relationship is further rocked by an obsessed and cunning stalker who'll stop at nothing—not even murder—to have Nic to herself. When Nic falls for Lauren, the stalker zeroes in on her as the competition.

And the competition must be eliminated.

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Realities
by Marian D. Schwartz
Rating: 4.0 Stars
Genre: Literary Fiction
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“A compelling and stunningly written book…” -Karen Brady, THE BUFFALO NEWS

Nominated For A Pulitzer Prize

Jenny Weaver is smart, she’s funny, and she’s so lonely it hurts.

A year after her husband’s suicide, Jenny impulsively moves from the Northeast to California. Her young children adjust to the move, but she does not. She has made only one friend, and she isn’t sure of how to handle the children’s problems. She’s finding it difficult being a single mother. In a moment of deep frustration and loneliness, she begins writing to her dead husband, Richard, telling him about her daily life. She holds nothing back, even telling him when she begins a new romance.

Jenny also writes about the past. She looks back at their marriage and family life, and begins to see how it went wrong. As she gets closer to the truth and the past becomes threatening, she decides not to write to him anymore. But she finds it impossible to stop. The answer to their children’s question– “How-and why-did-Daddy-die?”– is in the past, and she can’t hide from the truth forever.

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The Friday Edition
by Betta Ferrendelli
Rating: 4.4 Stars
Genre: Mystery
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Snow isn’t all that’s falling in Denver, Colorado on Christmas Eve.

A beautiful, young district attorney tumbles from her balcony to her death. Police suspect suicide, but the DA's sister, newspaper reporter Samantha Church, isn't buying it.

Samantha discovers evidence linking her sister to a drug smuggling case and quickly learns she has stumbled onto a major news story. She must summon the courage to not only face a cartel of criminals, but her own fears and shortcomings when she is confronted by the inescapable specter of a far greater enemy—her addiction to alcohol. Samantha's dependency has not only cost her job at a major metropolitan daily, but, worse, custody of her daughter, April.

Samantha pursues her sister's killers, maneuvering through a minefield of intrigue deliberately set out to divert her from the truth. Despite being betrayed, physically beaten and facing the possibility of sharing her sister's fate, Samantha refuses to stop her investigation. However, when the killers threaten to harm April, Samantha realizes that, for her daughter's sake, she can no longer continue the investigation on her own. She knows she must swallow her pride and turn to her ex-husband and police detective, Jonathan Church, for help.

Can Samantha ultimately prevail—find her sister's killer, write the story of her career, confront her drinking problem, and finally begin to change her life, or will she and April become the killer's next victims?

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Transformative Travel in Nepal
by Kate Benzin
Rating: 4.6 Stars
Genre: Memoirs and Biographies
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A casual phone call to a friend sparked the fulfillment of Kate’s lifelong dream of traveling to Nepal in order to trek in the Himalayas. She jokingly mentioned to her friend Kay who was planning to start a new exercise routine that they could get fit on a trip to the Himalayas.

Within just a few weeks, Kate and Kay found themselves on a plane on the way to the adventure of a lifetime:

Seeing the gorgeous snow-capped Himalayas in person so close that it seemed that Kate could just reach out her hand to touch them.

Trekking for days into areas that only the most adventurous travelers ever reach.

Truly Transformative Travel

What Kate learned about herself during the challenging and sometimes excruciating, but always stimulating, adventure of trekking at high altitude over rough terrain truly transformed her in ways that often did not become apparent until many years later.

 

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