With nearly a million books in the Kindle Store, it’s no wonder that one Kindle Nation citizen recently channeled Erasmus with a Facebook status update that said, in so many words, “So many books, so little time!”
But we are here to help with a new batch of quality 99-cent reads from some terrific authors. 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 new batch of highly rated 99-centers to share with you today….
What happens when a local hero – a firefighter and paramedic – finds his personal world at the short end of a vicious crime? Chart Paul Kelly’s transformation from a good guy to a man descending into darkness, searching for an explanation of this evil….
“This is what horror wants to be when it grows up, a vision of tragic inevitability rooted in character, ruthless and inexorably unfolding, yet shot through with the possibility of grace.” –Peter Straub
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.Please note: The author and his publisher will be donating 25 percent of all proceeds to Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) for all of April and May.
to download A Question of Will (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 brand new batch of 99-cent specials, just added today!
Ariana’s Pride
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
B004EEPOY0
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?
DOUBLEBACK
Libby Fischer Hellmann
B002SG7OWG
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.
HER OWN BEST ENEMY
By Cynthia Justlin
B004RVN1AO
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.
The Other Side
By E. Thomas Finan
B004O0U9X0
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.
Julius Katz Mysteries
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.
DAEMON: Night of the Daemon
By Harry Shannon
B003CN6K4W
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.
The Journey
By Laura Lond
B004HILRLM
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.
THE DEAD MAN #1: FACE OF EVIL
By LEE GOLDBERG & WILLIAM RABKIN
B004NNV48W
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.
Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 1
By Libby Fischer Hellmann
B003NE6E32
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
Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 2
By Libby Fischer Hellmann
B003NHT4UE
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.
Besserwisser: A Novel
By Steve Anderson
B002NU5LCW
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.
Wrecker
By Dave Conifer
B004IEA8GK
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.
Catherine and the Captain
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?
Demonspawn
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
Foxy’s Tale
By LB Gschwandtner & Karen Cantwell
B004R1Q4JE
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.
The Eye of the Idol
By Paul Dayton
B003Z0D1MG
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!
By Edward G. Talbot
Genre: Thriller
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 Stars from 6 Reviewers
Don’t worry about the so-called Shadow Government. It’s the guy pulling THEIR strings that should terrify you.
More to come next week!
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