Free ebooks for Kindle & other ereaders – 10/15/2011 no comments
A few new freebies to report:
Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues (Cape Island Mystery) by Randall Peffer (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Murder mystery, legal procedural, sexual ambiguity.
Dark Horse (Jim Knighthorse Series #1) by J.R. Rain (4 stars/37 reviews) Murder mystery set in a high school.
Fenton: the Loneliest Vampire (Lost Realm) by Kate Aaron (5 stars/1 review) Short vampire story. Gay & Lesbian. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Blood on the Ice by Ian Thomas Healy (4 stars/9 reviews) Humorous vampire tale set in hockey rink. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Endeavor in Time by Chris Hambleton (4 stars/10 reviews) Science fiction involving time travel and saving NASA. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Gold Standard by Kyell Gold (4 stars/1 review) Speculative fiction short story collection, some of which have won Ursa Major awards. The characters are humanoid animals. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Death Wishing by Laura Ellen Scott (no reviews) Fantasy, literary fiction. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Until Again: Prequel Novella to BLUE by Lou Aronica (4 stars/1 review) Contemporary fiction. Prequel to Blue – see below. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Blue by Lou Aronica is currently free at Barnes & Noble for a limited time. At the Kindle Store this title gets 4 stars from 93 reviewers and is $2.99. Contemporary fiction/fantasy involving a broken family and the fantasy world they have created.
Wish On The Moon by Karen Rose Smith (5 stars/2 reviews) Contemporary romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Lady Deception by Rizzo Rosko (5 stars/1 review) Historical romance, castles. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Nine-Tenths of the Law by L. A. Witt (3 1/2 stars/6 reviews) Gay & Lesbian; love triangle. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
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Some paid reading ideas:
Dove Season by Johnny Shaw (4 stars/23 reviews) is the Kindle Daily Deal for today and has been reduced to $1.99 from the regular price of $7.99.
In Dove Season, a young man finds himself fighting for survival and searching for truth in the dangerous undergrounds Mexicali. What he uncovers calls into question everything he thought he knew about his father–and will determine just what kind of man he himself truly is.
WIRED: Steve Jobs, Revolutionary by Steven Levy, Chris Anderson (5 stars/1 review) $2.99. 
Same price at Barnes & Noble.
It’s hard to imagine a better subject than the life and times of Steve Jobs—charismatic and difficult, mysterious and inspiring, with a biography that might have been plucked from Greek myth. In the wake of his death WIRED presents Steve Jobs: Revolutionary, an eBook featuring our best stories about him. The anthology begins with a remembrance by Wired senior writer Steven Levy, who interviewed Jobs many times over the last two decades. We continue with six other stories that track Jobs on his uncanny rise, his dramatic fall, and his spectacular, unlikely return to Apple.
January Kills Me (Samantha Rialto Mysteries) by Evan Katy (5 stars/10 reviews) $0.99. Romantic suspense. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
Samantha Rialto, a recently divorced, defensively snarky middle school music teacher, has taken up surveillance photography as a way to fill the gaps in her educator’s salary. As the daughter of the former Chief of Police it seemed like a reasonable choice for a side job. That is until a particularly cold week in January when Sam finds herself entangled in a mystery involving dead people, copious amounts of cash and a nutty Tai Chi enthusiast.
In a deserted alley two people are murdered and Sam is the only witness. Ben Parker, the detective assigned to the case, is not happy to see her again. A year ago his former partner, Harry Rialto – Sam’s ex-husband – killed a fellow cop in a bar brawl, single handedly tarnishing the local police reputation. Sam never spoke about how Harry treated her while they were married and she isn’t going to start now, even though Ben’s questions about the alley crime scene and her inability to answer them bring up old frustrations and ignite a surprising (and inconvenient) attraction.
Timepiece by Heather Albano (5 stars/2 reviews) $0.99. This is a new historical steampunk adventure from one of the Choice of Games writers. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
Elizabeth Barton longs to escape the endless round of social ritual that defines life in the village of Hartwich during the Regency of Prince George. Her neighbor William Carrington has lost the use of his arm in the Napoleonic Wars, and now must watch from the sidelines as the final act of that conflict unfolds without him. Both go through the motions of their lives, dutiful but dissatisfied, as the Battle of Waterloo looms on the horizon. When an anonymous benefactor sends Elizabeth a pocket watch that is more than what it seems, they are swept seventy years into the future.
The London of 1885 is a steampunk dystopia where the streets are patrolled by Gatling-gun-wielding robots and the clockwork of the British Empire is slick with its subjects’ blood. This future has its roots on the field of Waterloo—in the secret weapon Wellington employed there—and it will come true in seventy years’ time unless Elizabeth and William find a way to stop it.
Vimana: A Science Fiction Thriller by Mainak Dhar (4 1/2 stars/13 reviews) $0.99.
Vimana is an edge-of your seat sci-fi technothriller about a young college student who stumbles upon an ancient war between good and evil. A war that we thought was merely a part of our ancient myths and legends, but unknown to us, is still being waged everyday in our skies. As the forces of darkness conspire to unleash worldwide devastation to coincide with the End Times prophecies in 2012, he discovers his hidden destiny is to join the forces of light in bringing this war to a conclusion. At stake will be the continued existence of the human race.
The Assassins’ Village by Faith Mortimer (4 1/2 stars/21 reviews) $2.99. Mystery. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
The Assassins’ Village by the acclaimed author, Faith Mortimer, introduces, Diana Rivers, writer, sometime actor and amateur sleuth.
When an expatriate theatrical group gather to discuss their next play there will be murder. A blackmailer stalks their picturesque Cypriot village.
The group is riven with jealousies, rivalry, sexual tension and illicit affairs. Unbeknown to each other they all attempt to find solutions to their problems. Some believe it lies in murder. Can they find the blackmailer? And can they find that all important ‘little black book’ – the chronicle of their misdeeds.
Cruel Justice (DI Lorne Simpkins thriller part of a trilogy) by Mel Comley and Tania Tirraoro (5 stars/6 reviews) $2.99. The first title in a trio of thrillers. A serial killer taunts the police…And he has his sights on DI
Lorne Simpkins. Barnes & Noble has the second two books in the series but does not seem to have this one. Kobo also has the second two books and at a lower price.
