“So many books, so little time!” That’s what the Dutch Renaissance theologian Erasmus (1466-1536) was fond of saying whenever he tried to decide what to download next on his Kindle.
But he didn’t have Kindle Nation to help him find batch after new batch of quality 99-cent reads from terrific authors. We will be updating these listings regularly and each of the following 99-cent books has received at least 4 Amazon reader reviews with an average rating of 4 stars or better. No sponsorship or fee is required for a book to be included in these bargain listings: it is totally free for authors and readers, and each post is sponsored by one title from (usually) another author … which of course we hope you will consider.
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We’ve got a great selection of highly rated 99-centers to share with you today….
Bloodstains On The Wall
By Mike Dennis
5 Stars – 10 Reviews
Kindle Price: $0.99
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Lending: Enabled
1. FULLY LOADED
2. THE DEVIL DRIVES A BIG MERCEDES
3. BLOCK
Visit Mike Dennis’ Amazon Page
In addition, Mike has had short stories published in A Twist Of Noir, Mysterical e, Slow Trains, and the 2009 Wizards Of Words Anthology.
Next up will be a three-book set of standalone Key West noir novels. The first one, SETUP ON FRONT STREET, will be coming soon. These novels will lift the veil on Key West as a true noir city, on a par with Los Angeles, New Orleans, or Miami. In December 2010, Mike moved back to Key West.
to download Bloodstains On The Wall (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds! And now, let’s get started with A GREAT LIST OF OTHER TERRIFIC 99-CENT READS!
First Book of Dreams: Metropolis
- Melanie Jackson
- Urban Fantasy
- .99 cents
- 5 stars from 6 reviewers on Amazon
- Whoever said dreams can’t hurt you didn’t know what they were talking about.
- Author: Edie Claire
- Genre: Cozy Mystery Series
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 Stars from 16 reviewers
- Description: Series premier features advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow and her veterinarian father; full of old secrets, crazy relatives, pets, and humor!
- Author: Timothy Hallinan
- Genre: Private eye (hard-boiled)
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews & ratings: 4&5 stars from 5 reviewers
- Description: The first novel in Edgar nominee Hallinan’s cult L.A. detective series from the 1990s. “Very satisfying” – Publisher’s Weekly
- Author: David Gaughran
- Genre: Short Stories (Quirky)
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: (4 & 5 Star Reviews from 5 Reviewers)
- Description: Two unsettling stories from a world that’s not quite right.
- Author: John Medler
- Genre: thriller, historical fiction
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 11 reviews–10 five stars, 1 three stars
- Description: Professor finds the lost 58 prophecies of Nostradamus and must use them to stop an impending terrorist attack.
- Author: Mark Chisnell
- ASIN: B004NBZE76
- Genre: Suspense Thriller
- Price: Free
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.7 stars from 7 reviewers
- Description: Martin Cormac is running from more than his past, he’s running from the most dangerous game he will ever play.
- Author: Annette Fix
- Genre: memoir, relationship humor
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4 star average, 37 reviewers/16 five star reviews
- Description: Devoted single mother. Aspiring writer. Moonlighting stripper. Can Annette balance it all, meet Prince Charming, and live happily ever after?
- Author: Marsha Canham
- Genre: Historical Romance
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 11 reviews
- Description: Swashbuckling adventure romance in the Caribbean
- Author: Kelly McClymer
- Genre: historical romance
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and ratings: 4 stars from 4 reviews
- Description: She believes every fairy tale deserve a happily ever after. He doesn’t.
- Author: Shana Hammaker
- Genre: thriller, horror
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and ratings: 4.5 stars from 6 reviews
- Description: Vampires are stupid, but zombies can really ruin your day.
- Author: Shana Hammaker
- Genre: thriller, horror
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.4 stars from 9 reviews
- Description: What would you do with a corpse that won’t stay away?
- Author: Eric Quinn Knowles
- Genre: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Price:$0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.2 Stars from 10 Reviewers
- Description: A parody of celebrity cult madness and superhero mythology.
- Author: Bob Mayer
- Genre: Military Thriller
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 10 Reviews 4.5 Stars
- A US Special Forces A-Team is on its way to Colombia. The mission: conduct covert, unilateral military raids to destroy cocaine processing laboratories.
- Author: Layton Green
- Genre: Mystery/Suspense
- Price:.99
- Reviews and Ratings: (4.7 from 42 Reviewers)
- Description: An expert on cults and a Diplomatic Security Agent investigate the mysterious disappearance of a U.S. diplomat at a religious ceremony in Zimbabwe.
- Author: Bob Mayer
- Genre: Military Thriller
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 6 Reviews 4.5 Stars
- Covert operative Horace Chase has been chasing ghosts his entire life.
- Author: Eileen Cruz Coleman
- Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
- Price: 99 cents
- Reviews and Ratings: 5 stars from 5 Reviewers
- Description: Rumpel is the dark and quirky retelling of the Brothers Grimm Rumpelstiltskin.
- Author: Bob Mayer
- Genre: Science Fiction/Military/Technothriller
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 88 Reviews 4 Stars
- What if the Shadow that destroyed Atlantis 10,000 years ago, comes back to threaten our present world?
- Author: L.J. Sellers
- Genre: mystery/suspense
- Price:$.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 19 reviewers
- Description: A brutal murder, a vicious suspect, and a missing woman with secrets—can Jackson uncover the truth in time to save her?
- Author: M. P. McDonald
- Genre: Thriller/Suspense
- Price: .99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 out of 55 reviews
- Description: Mark Taylor learns that being held as an enemy combatant means no rights, no trial, no way out.
- Author:Imogen Rose
- Genre:YA/Fantasy/Time travel
- Price:99¢
- Reviews and Ratings: (Example: 4.2 Stars from 5 Reviewers) 4.3 stars from 152 Reviews
- Description: Twilight meets The Time-Travelers Wife! –Stephen Windwalker (Kindle Nation)
- Author: Aaron Polson
- Genre: young adult/paranormal
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4 reviews – 4.25 average
- Description: A haunted house story turned on its head.
- Author: Edie Ramer
- Genre: paranormal romance
- Price: $.99
- Reviews: 12 5-star reviews (out of 22); 4.1 average
- Description: A ghost story with attitude, romance and murder.
- Russell Bittner
- Romance / Literary fiction
- 99c
- 8 reviews, 6x 5-star and 2x 4-star
- Ideal love affair between a fashion photographer and a successful business woman, with a catch.
- Author: Tania Tirraoro
- Genre: contemporary women’s fiction
- Price:99c
- Reviews and Ratings: 5 stars from 2 reviewers (US) 4.5 stars from 7 reviewers (UK)
- Description: An emotionally-charged page turner about a young TV reporter facing family turmoil, workplace woes and a romantic dilemma
- Author: Linda S. Prather
- Genre: Mystery/Thriller
- Price: $.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.9 stars (11 reviews)
- Description: A chilling glimpse into the mind of evil.
- Author: Drew Cross
- Genre: Mystery/Suspense
- Price: .99 cents
- Reviews and Ratings: 5 stars from 9 reviews
- Description: Blood, lust and bloodlust collide when the police hunt for a ‘vampire’ threatens to uncover probationer PC Marks dark secrets…
- Author: Stacy Juba
- Genre: Mystery/Suspense
- Price: 99 cents
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 21 reviewers; #15 Top Rated in Kindle Store >Romantic Suspense; #38 Top Rated in Kindle Store > Women Sleuths
- After starring on a TV game show, an ambitious personal trainer attracts a stalker upon returning to her normal life.
- Author: G.W. Jefferies
- Genre: contemporary fiction, dystopian fiction, pyschological thriller
- Price: .99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.9 Stars – 25 reviews
- Description: Apolo Drakuvich captures the life of a petty criminal whose life revolves around parasitic journalism, media and government corruption.
- Author: Philip Chen
- Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction, Technothriller
- Price: 99 cents
- Reviews and Ratings:4.3 Stars from 34 reviews
- Description: Mysterious objects buried in the ocean spark an urgent search for answers by opposing forces. Recommended by noted book critic.
- Author: David Wisehart
- Genre: Historical Fantasy
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 stars from 7 reviewers
- Description: A medieval knight leads a quest through Hell to recover the Holy Grail from the Devil.
- Author: Miriam Minger
- Genre: Historical Romance
- Price: 99 cents
- 4 Amazon reader reviews of 5 stars
- If Lord Donovan Trent had his way, he would spend his days wooing the women of London society. Instead, he found himself banished to Cornwall, forced by the decrees of his father’s will to find a country bride. The last thing the handsome lord needed was a local lass sticking her nose into his affairs, but that was exactly what the vicar’s daughter Corisande Easton had in mind.
- Author: Debora Geary
- Genre: fantasy romance
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 19 reviewers
- Description: Tattoo Boy, a witch with sparking fingers, and a seven-year-old who can see the future. All the makings for romance. Really.
- Author: Donna White Glaser
- Genre: Suspense
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.9 Stars from 9 reviewers
- Description: A psychotherapist has a secret–and a stalker. The first in the Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery series.
- Author: Paul Levine
- Genre: Suspense Anthology
- Price: .99
- Reviews & Ratings: Four 5-star reviews
- Four stories by the Edgar-nominated author range in tone from Hitchcock to Twilight Zone, all featuring heroes in hellish trouble.
- Author: Steve Anderson
- Genre: crime, noir, mystery, suspense, thriller
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.8 Stars from 5 Reviewers
- A US Army reservist goes AWOL in Hawaii and must escape from a secretive society that promised to harbor him.
- Author: Stacy Juba
- Genre: Mystery, romantic suspense
- Price: 99 cents
- Reviews and Ratings: 27 reviews with an average of 4.5 stars
- When obit writer Kris Langley investigates an unsolved murder, she fights to stay off the obituary page herself.
- Author: Dave Zeltserman
- ASIN: B004HO5J56
- Genre: horror/crime thriller
- Price: $0.99 until June 1st
- Reviews and Ratings: 9 reviews with an average of 5.0 stars
- A high-octane thriller with vampires, bikers, hardboiled PIs and doomed lovers loaded with sex, violence and extreme horror.
- Author: Scott Nicholson
- Genre: Supernatural horror
- Price: 99 cents
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.1 Stars from 16 Reviewers
- A collection of supernatural and ghost tales
- Vivi Anna
- Fantasy
- $.99
- 5 stars from 5 Reviewers
- A fae assassin must decide between loyalty and love when he’s charged with killing an old friend.
- Kathryn Lively
- Genre: Christian/Inspirational, Contemporary, Suspense
- Price: $.99
- Reviews: 4.5 stars from 11 Reviewers
- One bullet, one week changes the lives of so many people. Discover which of life’s “little flowers” bloom in the face of adversity..
- by Margaret Lake
- Genre: Historical Romance
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.25 stars out of 16 reviews
- Follow Ariana on her dark and dangerous journey to a destiny she couldn’t have foreseen.
No Cure for the Broken Hearted
- By Kenneth Rosenberg
- Genre: Contemporary Romance
- Price: $0.99
- R & R: 4.4 stars from 11 reviews
- Long ago he broke her heart. Now he’s back, but should she forgive him?
- Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Suspense/Thriller
- 99 cents (thru the end of May, 2011)
- Reviews: 21 4 and 5 Star Reviews
- Who is trying to kill Lila Hilliard, and what does it have to do with the late Sixties in Chicago?
- Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Mystery/thriller
- Price: $0.99
- 4.0 Stars from 18 Reviewers
- Georgia Davis and Ellie Foreman tackle the farreaching case of a little girl who’s kidnapped, returned, then left motherless.
- By Cynthia Justlin
- Genre: Romantic Suspense
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars from 4 reviewers
- When a woman’s son goes missing she has nowhere to turn–except to the man who once ruined her life.
- By E. Thomas Finan
- Genre: Short Story Collection
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.3 Stars from 10 Reviewers
- From extramarital affairs to bus trips to voicemail obsessions, this collection looks at when we grow—and when we don’t.
- By Dave Zeltserman
- B004KAA9LQ
- Genre: Mystery
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.75 Stars from 4Reviewers
- Two awardwinning mystery stories featuring the brilliant detective Julius Katz and his most unusual sidekick, Archie.
- By Harry Shannon
- Genre: Horror/Thriller
- Price: $0.99
- 4.8 stars from 11 reviews
- A mysterious creature from Iraq. A Special Op leader and his team. Someone or something is stalking Las Vegas.
- By Laura Lond
- Genre: Fantasy
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.8 Stars from 20 Reviewers
- A story of faith, friendship, courage, and staying true to one’s calling.
- By LEE GOLDBERG & WILLIAM RABKIN
- Genre: Action/Horror
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 28 reviewers
- Matthew Cahill is an ordinary man who, after a terrible accident, can see evil before it strikes. First in a new monthly series.
- By Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Genre: Crime Fiction Short Story Collection
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: Excellent reviews from 5 sources, including PW, Mystery Scene, Meritorious Mysteries, Mystery Scene Magazine
- A collection of 5 mystery short stories featuring amateur sleuth Ellie Foreman and Chicago PI Georgia Davis
- By Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Genre: Crime Fiction Short Story Collection
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: Excellent reviews from 5 sources, including PW, Mystery Scene, Meritorious Mysteries, Mystery Scene Magazine
- A collection of 10 dark crime fiction stories, some historical, some foreign, some awardwinners too.
- By Steve Anderson
- Genre: Humor, Mystery, Satire, Thriller
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4.75 Stars from 4 Reviewers
- Munich, 1990: An American expat poses as a Hitler scholar and finds himself the target of wannabe NeoNazis.
- By Dave Conifer
- Genre: thriller
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews & Ratings: 4.7/5 stars over 19 reviewers: Currently #248 in Amazon Kindle store.
- Jane thought a loveless marriage was as bad as it could get. Steve thought life was perfect with a hired man to do his chores. They were both wrong.
- By Margaret Lake
- Genre: Historical Romance
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars out of 5 reviews
- Can Catherine escape the destiny of a doomed king or will she choose duty and honor over love?
- By Glenn Bullion
- Genre: Horror / Paranormal
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars from 8 reviewers
- Join Alex as he discovers his demonic powers and battles the supernatural
- By LB Gschwandtner & Karen Cantwell
- Genre: women’s fiction
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars from 11 revieiwers
- A comic, chick lit, comingofage, vampire tale (sort of) where family triumphs over adversity and mother and daughter learn how to face the world as grownups – together.
- By Paul Dayton
- Genre: Adventure / Murder Mystery / Treasure hunt
- Price: $0.99
- Reviews and Ratings: 6 reviews, 4.5 stars
- Follow the trail as an SIS agent and a professor piece together the mystery of the Box and its incredible contents.
Reining In
By Dawn Judd
B003I851OG
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 13 reviewers
How does a vampire keep her identity hidden from a world where social security numbers, licenses, passports and credit cards are a must? She builds the Network.
Rock Charisma
By Joan P. Cooley
B004ELANTO
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 10 reviewers
A ruthless rock star with a secret meets his match, when a beautiful blonde reporter is assigned to interview him.
Bound by Blood
By Danielle Bourdon/Kimberly Hoyt
B0042JTP1U
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 6 reviewers.
Laurel must decide between her vampire Prince and the mortal man he once was.
The Donzerly Light
By Ryne Douglas Pearson
B0042FZQBM
Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Price: $0.99
Ratings: 4.8 from 8 reviews
A young stock broker, given psychic powers by an enigmatic transient, learns the dark side of his gift.
Anathema
By Megg Jensen
B004MDLN66
Genre: YA fantasy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 Stars from 10 reviewers
A sheltered slave girl, surrounded by magic and manipulation, must learn to believe in herself and save her people.
The Bottom Feeders and Other Stories
By Aaron Polson
B003F777TW
Genre: Horror
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 stars from 5 Reviewers
Witness hotels with shifting rooms, carnivorous beetles, a ghostly Marine on his return from Iraq, and more…
Monster in the Mirror
By M.J.A. Ware
B003TXS9CQ
Genre: MG/YA Horror
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.4 Stars from 7 Reviewers
Nate and friends stumble upon a hidden room during a sleepover. What they find inside is anything but friendly.
Raven’s Heart: A Tale from the World of Secramore
Matthew & Stefanie Verish
B003V8BH8M
Genre: Fantasy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.8 Stars from 6 Reviewers
An unlikely cast is assemble for a quest, but it might be each other they must survive.
THE SHOP
J. Carson Black
B004SY5RVG
Genre: Thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and ratings: 4.8 stars from 6 reviewers
Who’s killing celebrities, and why? Smalltown homicide detective Jolie Burke’s murder investigation leads to the highest reaches of government.
Hard Day’s Knight
By John G. Hartness
B004GB17G0
Genre:Urban Fantasy/Comedy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 Stars from 12 Reviewers
Wisecracking nonsparkling vampire detectives try to save the world and get the girl. They usually manage the first half.
The Quest for Nobility
By Debra L Martin & David W Small
B003CC1KI4
Genre: Science fiction
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.0 over 8 reviews
Royal twins, Darius and Dyla Telkur, fight to save their throne from an evil mastermind bent on eliminating the Telkur line of succession.
BORROWED TIME
By Maureen A. Miller
B004E3X9CK
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.0 from 10 Reviewers
A beautiful engineer fights to prevent her savant brother from becoming a military pawn.
SILENT COUNSEL
By Ken Isaacson
B003EOAC6G
Genre: Legal Thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 over 19 reviews (from hardcover edition)
Suppose your child were killed in a hitandrun, and the one person who knew the driver’s identity – his lawyer – couldn’t tell you his name because the court held it was privileged information?
Out of Time: A Paranormal Romance
By Monique Martin
Genre: Time Travel/Paranormal Romance
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.4 Stars from 88 Reviewers
Time travel romance (1929 New York City) with a paranormal twist.
By Steve Anderson
Genre: historical, espionage, war, thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 Stars from 12 Reviewers
A German actor is forced to join a desperate WWII mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer.
Space Junque, a Romantic Sci-Fi Fantasy (Apocalypto 1)
By L.K. Rigel
Genre: apocalyptic fantasy romance
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.3 Stars from 15 Reviewers
During an environmental apocalypse Jake and Char battle eco-goons, bureaucrats and a goddess while falling in love.
By Cathy Wiley
Genre: Mystery
Price: .99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 20 reviewers
Sometimes writing mysteries can be murder…
by Kathy Carmichael
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.3 Stars from 7 Reviewers
Romantic Comedy set in Texas.
D.D. Scott
Romantic Comedy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 5 stars from 8 reviewers
Romantic Comedy with a chick-lit, gone-country twist. Think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy.
The Sex Club
L.J. Sellers
Mystery/Suspense
$.99 (Kindle)
4 stars, 64 reviews
A dead girl, a ticking bomb, a Bible study that’s not what it appears to be, and a detective who won’t give up.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Mystery
$.99
4.5 stars from 13 reviewers
Chicago PI Georgia Davis, investigating a murder, finds out how far high school girls will go to gain acceptance from their peers.
Class Collision: Fall From Grace
Annette Mackey
YA Historical FIction
$.99
Reviews and Ratings: 13 reviews averaging 4.85 stars. (eleven 5 star, two 4 star)
A story that explores the heart of human emotion. You’ll hate the boy, but fall in love with the man.
AFTER THE FIRE
Kathryn Shay
Contemporary Romance
$.99
4 stars from 7 reviews
Follow the firefighters of Hidden Cove, a remarkable team of heroes like you’ve never seen before.
T
he Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters
Barbara Silkstone
Genre: Mystery
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 out of 5 stars / 36 five star reviews out of 45 reviews
Contemporary spin on a classic tale. This criminally funny fable reads like My Cousin Vinny meets A Fish Called Wanda.
We Interrupt This Date
L.C. Evans
Genre: Chick lit/women’s fiction
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.1 stars from 42 reviews.
When a divorcee tries to remake her life and start a new romance, her needy family decides she’s crisis central.
Take the Monkeys and Run
Karen Cantwell
Genre: Humorous Mystery
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.2 stars from 84 reviewers
A soccer mom and movie lover sticks her nose into some monkey business and finds herself in the middle of her own cinematic action adventure – only these bullets are real.
The Father’s Child
Mark Adair
Genre: suspense/thriller
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 Stars on 7 Reviewers
John Truman, a bright, introverted, college student belongs to the New Dawn…he just doesn’t know it yet.
– Now just 99 cents on Kindle!
