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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, August 23, 2010: Inspector Gamache at Quebec City's Winter Carnival (Preview), plus Ash Wednesday, macabre fiction by New Yorker author Chet Williamson (Today's Sponsor)

Quebec City is one of my favorite places in the world, so I am probably an easy mark for today’s addition to our Free Book Alert listings, which is a preview of the latest Inspector Gamache novel set against the backdrop of the city’s Winter Carnival….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

This is a treat. Please join me in welcoming publisher Crossroad Press to Kindle Nation Daily for the first time as a sponsor, and let’s put the focus today on a truly distinguished writer of macabre fiction, Chet Williamson.
“A rich, carefully constructed novel about the ravages of guilt and about the real horror of life…grim, unrelenting, and compelling.” — Michael Morrison, Fantasy Review 
by Chet Williamson

In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared. These aren’t ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments – the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They don’t move, and they don’t speak.

Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone. Murders are revealed, rapes and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage. Two of these are Bradley Meyers, a vet already driven half-crazy by his experiences in Vietnam, confronted by the sight of his dead son, and now barely capable of containing his rage, and Jim Callender, whose son has died in the same accident, for which he is partly responsible. As Callender sinks into guilt, Meyers moves toward murder.

Praise for Ash Wednesday
“In a genre that spawns imitation Stephen King almost as fast as King himself produces the real thing, Chet Williamson has done something powerful and new. You will be haunted by this book.” — Orson Scott Card, Magazine of F&SF;

“A riveting, descriptive account of the effect the dead have on the living…both thought-provoking and entertaining. I couldn’t put the book down.” Betty Saputo, Rave Reviews

“A strong if necessarily macabre and uncomfortable tale of moral import.” — Fritz Leiber

“Excellently written, painstakingly plotted, and thoroughly believable. A masterfully skillful book.” — Peter Crowther

“The jacket copy claims ‘Ash Wednesday is a powerful, literate work of fiction that addresses the fantastic and human character — one of those rare works of horror literature, such as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House or Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, that transcends genre.’ Wow — a jacket quote that doesn’t lie!” — The Horror Show

“Disturbing, challenging, and anything but reassuring. A cold hard look at the everyday terrors of death, ghosts, and madness. A haunting vision of purgatory on earth.” — Ramsey Campbell

“Ash Wednesday is enough of a book to stand on its own without the intrusion of the supernatural. Yet its haunting image of the mute, motionless spirits that inhabit a small town remains lodged in the mind like a bullet in the brain. Chet Williamson has written a disturbingly memorable novel.” — Les Daniels

About the Author:

Chet Wiliamson sold hisfirst story in 1981. Since then he’s published twenty-five books and over a hundred short stories in anthologies and such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many others.

His work has been adapted for film and TV, and has been published worldwide. Mr. Williamson won the International Horror Guild Award, and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award (twice), the MWA’s Edgar, and the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award (six times). He write plays as well as fiction.



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Bury Your Dead Free Preview: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Pre-Order Now and the Preview will be delivered free to your Kindle on September 7.
Set against the backdrop of Winter Carnival in Quebec City….
The full book, Bury Your Dead, is priced at $11.99 and can be pre-ordered here for download on September 28.

OUTTA THE BAG: A Prequel Story to ME, MYSELF AND WHY?
OUTTA THE BAG: A Prequel Story to ME, MYSELF AND WHY? – MaryJanice Davidson
Pre-Order Now and the Preview will be delivered free to your Kindle on September 7.
The full book, ME, MYSELF AND WHY?, is priced at $11.99 and can be pre-ordered here for download on September 28.
Wicked Appetite Free Preview
Pre-Order Now and the Preview will be delivered free to your Kindle on September 7.
The full book is priced at $12.99 and can be pre-ordered here for download on September 14.

The Other Side of the Page
The Other Side of the Page – Romance Short – Terry Odell

Here’s the author’s description: “Finding the perfect hero and heroine for a romance novel can turn a writer’s hair gray–that’s why I advertise for them. Interviewing characters can be exhausting, and getting them to stick to the plot? Well, it doesn’t always work that way. And then you find out they’re talking about you behind your back–Meet Randy and Sarah, the hero and heroine of Finding Sarah and Hidden Fire, in a funny and illuminating look at what goes on behind the scenes of the romance writing process.” Sounds a little meta, but lots of fun.

I Thought It Was You: Grimm’s Circle, Book 2.5 – Romance Short Story – Shiloh Walker

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