Just for Today: Four Terrific Kindle Daily Deal Offerings from Open Road!(Editor’s Note: It’s a special treat for us today to welcome back one of our favorite sponsors, an innovative, mission-driven publishing company called Open Road Integrated Media. We’ve been sharing news about Open Road and its commitment to publishing high-quality books since it was founded in the fall of 2009 by former HarperCollins CEO and Random House executive Jane Friedman. While many of her former colleagues were investing their energies in developing the agency model conspiracy that would eventually win them defendant status in a federal antitrust action, Friedman took a very different, courageous — and I would say brilliant — route with co-founder Jeffrey Sharp to use the new technologies offered by the Kindle and other platforms to connect the greatest readers in the world with legendary authors including William Styron, Pat Conroy, Jack Higgins, and Virginia Hamilton, emerging stars like Mary Glickman, and today’s four featured authors, each of whom is represented at special just-for-today bargain prices as part of today’s Kindle Daily Deal. You can pick up the books below at bargain prices just until midnight tonight, and you’ll find about 20 other similar deals at the Kindle Daily Deal page.–Steve Windwalker)
in its Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged!
“When it comes to the Victorian mystery, Anne Perry has proved that nobody does it better.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Motor City Blue: An Amos Walker Mystery (Book One)
by Loren D. Estleman
An aged mobster’s adopted daughter disappears, and Detroit PI Amos Walker is the only man tough enough to seek her out
It has been years since Ben Morningstar retired. The feared mobster, now decades past his prime, left his deadly business behind and retired to Phoenix. His only concern now is Maria, daughter of a long-ago murdered friend, whom Morningstar has raised as his own. When she disappears, the old man goes into action once more.
When Morningstar comes to Detroit, he seeks out Amos Walker to aid him in his search. A Vietnam veteran thrown out of the Police Academy for slugging a fellow cadet, Walker is a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Maria’s trail is cold—the only clue a faded pornographic snapshot—but Walker is the toughest man in Detroit, and won’t give in no matter how dangerous the journey becomes.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
One Reviewer Notes
“If you’re looking for another more-than-capable writer and a more-than-compelling protagonist, here you go.
This is the beginning of a good series. Above all other things, this is a fun book.”- Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars
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Death in High Heels: An Inspector Charlesworth Mystery (Book One) (Brand, Christianna)
by Christianna Brand
Inspector Charlesworth investigates a strange murder in a dress shop.
The sales room at Christophe et Cie is staffed by five young women. Each is beautiful in her own way—and each could be a murderer. One morning, two of the women purchase some oxalic acid to clean a stain off a Panama hat. No one knows how the poison gets into Miss Doon’s system, but it doesn’t take long to kill her. When Inspector Charlesworth steps into the little shop, he finds a dozen motives and no clear solution.
Everyone in the shop was jealous of Miss Doon, for as the owner’s girlfriend she was the favorite to head up the store’s new Riviera branch. Romantic feelings for his chief suspect sidetrack Charlesworth, and it takes a second murder to put him back on the trail of the killer.
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Penance: A Holland Taylor Mystery (Book One)
by David Housewright
A Minneapolis PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife
Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the Minneapolis homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect.