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Paris, mystery, romance, and murder are an intoxicating mix in Angela Henry’s The Paris Secret – Just $4.69 on Kindle, and here’s a free sample!

August 18, 2011March 22, 2011 by KND

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Here’s the set-up for Angela Henry’s The Paris Secret:

Less than twenty-four hours after fleeing to Paris, Maya Sinclair is the prime suspect in a brutal murder—and targeted by the real killer. When she’s viciously attacked in the gardens of Versailles, Maya barely escapes with her life thanks to sexy French journalist Simon Girard.

Simon has been investigating the mysterious death of his brother, an art forger with ties to the woman Maya is suspected of killing. Still healing from heartbreak of his own, Simon reluctantly joins forces with Maya, who has awakened feelings within him he thought long dead.

Their search for answers uncovers the existence of a secret society, and puts them on a quest to find a missing crucifix rumored to hold the key to everlasting life. Together, Maya and Simon race through Paris one step ahead of a killer who will do anything to ensure some secrets remain buried forever…

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Reviewers said:

Besides the thrill of Maya and Simon’s getaway adventure and battle against time, the excitement of uncovering clues and the history of a secret society, and the steamy attraction between Maya and Simon what I enjoyed the most in the novel was the virtual tour of Paris Angela Henry gave the reader. I have been several times to Paris and through Angela Henry’s descriptions of Paris’ cobblestone winding streets, the métro or historical sights, I felt like I was really there with Maya, soaking up the athmosphere of the city with a café au lait and a pain au chocolat.

The Paris Secret is a roller coaster ride that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat! This book had elements of The Bourne books…mystery, intrigue, and romance.

Setting: Paris – I want to go. The book was like a tour of Paris, the food, the sights, the atmosphere.

Mystery: There was a lot going on- murders, the missing crucifix, a secret society. Henry did a good job holding it all together, keeping the suspense going. There definitely weren’t any slow spots.

Romance: Maya and Simon are both recovering from broken hearts, but they’re a well-matched couple. He’s passionate, grumpy at times, dedicated. She’s independent, feisty, and a librarian. Their relationship is not smooth sailing, but at least they don’t spend the first half of the book denying the attraction. The sex scenes were steamy without being overly graphic.

Overall it was an exciting story, heavier on the suspense than the romance, and I enjoyed it.

Paris, romance, and murder are an intoxicating mix.

If the DaVinci Code & Julie Kenner’s Play or Die series had a baby, I think it might be a little something like this. While it doesn’t entirely fill the shoes of these two greats (hey, those are mighty big shoes), it definitely satisfied my cravings for hot romance & historical mystery during the holiday season.

This really was fun to read.

This book has it all — a phenomenal setting, long-buried secrets, a present-day murder mystery and a dash of paranormal intrigue, not to mention a cast of characters that leap off the page. And while it is so much more than a romance book, the two main characters are absolutely unforgettable.

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Angela Henry was once told that her past life careers included spy, researcher, and investigator. She stuck with what she knew because today she’s a mystery writing library reference specialist, who loves to people watch and eavesdrop on conversations.

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She’s the author of four mysteries featuring equally nosy amateur sleuth Kendra Clayton, and is also the founder of the award-winning MystNoir: African-American Mysteries website, which promotes African-American mystery writers, and was named a “Hot Site” by USA Today.com. MystNoir’s headline says it promotes mysteries by African-American authors, or books featuring African-American sleuths.

When she’s not working, writing, or practicing her stealth, she loves to travel, is a connoisseur of B horror movies, and an admitted anime addict. She lives in Ohio and is currently hard at work trying to meet her next deadline.

It’s 1935 in New York, and our KND eBook of the Day THE STORM KILLER delivers in every way, with every sense, and with an astonishing ability to freshly create times, places and characters – Here’s a free sample

August 18, 2011March 21, 2011 by KND

“Mike Jastrzebski’s 5-star thriller THE STORM KILLER has it all: hard-boiled narrative, gripping suspense, period detail, an unlikely hero battling his inner demons, and a stunning conclusion that you won’t see coming. Highly recommended!”–Miriam Auerbach

Here, from a few reviews, is the set-up for The Storm Killer:

“Time: 1935. Place: New York City. Crime beat reporter Jim Locke gets sucked into a quagmire of death, deceit, and danger when his actress sister is murdered – and he becomes the prime suspect. When he uncovers a pattern of similar murders, he is convinced that a serial killer is on the loose. But the police aren’t buying it, and it’s up to Jim to stop the madman.

“The hunt takes him from the grimy streets and smoke-filled bars of Manhattan to deceptively laid-back Key West, just as a killer storm bears down on the island. THE STORM KILLER has it all: hard-boiled narrative, gripping suspense, period detail, an unlikely hero battling his inner demons, and a stunning conclusion that you won’t see coming. Highly recommended!”–Miriam Auerbach, author of Dirty Harriet Rides Again

“Mike Jastrzebski’s stunning historical debut takes readers back into the hard-boiled world of Chandler and Hammett — and brings Ernest Hemingway back to life in a book as big as the man himself. The Storm Killer, a top grade thriller with a heavy dose of noir, hurtles you from New York to Key West at a pace that will leave you breathless.”-Christine Kling, author of Surface Tension, Cross Current, Bitter End, and Wrecker’s Key

“Jastrzebski’s hard-boiled thriller storms through New York’s gritty streets down to Prohibition-era Key West with Ernest Hemingway providing the tailwind. A crisp, fast-paced detective story, which Humphrey Bogart would have loved to play the lead in.”–Award-winning author Sharon Potts, In Their Blood

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When entire concepts of morals and convention are turned inside out, everything is perception. Charlie Warady’s 5ive-star novel 5IVE SPEED is just $2.99 on Kindle, and here’s a free sample

August 18, 2011March 20, 2011 by KND

Have you ever settled for “good enough” and, even if for just a moment, given up on your greatest dreams?

Is good enough what you really want? Is good enough really, in the end, good enough? A novel for everyone but one that Baby Boomers–and their kids and grandkids–will love for its look back at a special time in America.

Here’s the set-up for Charlie Warady’s novel 5IVE SPEED:

It isn’t until Donald Roth meets his son’s future in-laws that he realizes he is tired of a three-speed life. Time to move up.

When Donald was a kid in the late 60’s on the South Side of Chicago, he had a Schwinn Sting Ray bike. Everyone did. But everyone else had a five-speed. Donald’s was a three-speed. It was good enough, as was explained by his parents, just as their Ford Maverick wasn’t the neighbor’s Le Mans, but it was good enough. And that’s the way Donald was taught to live his life. It was a three-speed life. It was good enough.

He marries Emily because she’s good enough. Emily marries Donald because that’s what she had planned, and she is not going to experience divorce as did her parents. Donald opens a law practice with his two best friends and roommates from college because it’s good enough.

Then the Roths meet their son’s future in-laws and everything changes.

Donald wonders if, in fact, he could get that five-speed.

In this hilarious and thought-provoking novel, the whole concept of morals and convention is turned inside out. Everything is perception. If you like Richard Russo, Tom Perotta, and Jonathan Franzen, you’re going to love this book.

The Reviewers Said:

Growing up the 1960s, and in Chicago, I could not stop smiling as I read Mr.Warady’s wonderfully engaging novel about life, love, and the funny things that happen along the way.

This is a must read for all Baby boomers!

Written with both amazing humor and yet thoughtful characterizations, this fast moving novel is aptly named.

Charley Warady is a master of dialogue–there is no wasted energy, it reads down-hill (which is something that I always look for in what I read).

This very funny novel is a real delight–Charley Warady is a GREAT story teller and it’s a GREAT story.

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Charley Warady was a stand-up comedian, headlining colleges and clubs across the United States before moving to Israel in 1996 because it was something he had never done before.

He continues to do stand-up comedy, as well as writing, blogging, and podcasting. As part of his stand-up comedy while living in Israel, he has toured the world as co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour.

Writing remains his primary passion; joy and incredible abundance his main goal.

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“Para-psychic, Para-psychotic, Para-captivating!” CFBI agent Jasmine McLellan leads a psychically gifted team in the hunt for a serial arsonist: Cheryl Kaye Tardif’s DIVINE INTERVENTION is our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day and it’s just 99 cents on Kindle!

August 18, 2011March 19, 2011 by KND

A Pyro-Empath, a Psychometric Empath, and a Victim Empath team up to chase down an arsonist in this thriller praised widely as a genuine, uniquely Canadian mystery.

Rave Reviews For Cheryl Kaye Tardif’s Divine Intervention, available for just 99 cents for a limited time in the Kindle Store:

“Great imagination, fabulous imagery…This chilling page-turner is a genuine Canadian crime novel…Tardif gives her readers plenty of twists and turns before reaching a satisfying ending.” –Midwest Book Review

“An exciting book from start to finish. The futuristic elements are believable…plenty of surprising twists and turns. Good writing, good book! Sci-fi and mystery fans will love this book.” –Writer’s Digest

“A fan of J.D. Robb will thoroughly enjoy this one…a genuinely Canadian crime novel…leave(s) you smoldering…” — Kelly Christian, writer, WGA member and DF (Devout Fan)

“An action-packed book for summer readers! The story will keep readers turning pages.” — Bruce Atchison, freelance writer

“WONDERFUL! Riveting, with imagery almost agonizingly clear…nearly impossible to stop reading!” — Kate Leighton, Canadian editor and writer

“Sci-fi and mystery fans will love this book.” ―Writer’s Digest

“Para-psychic, Para-psychotic, Para-captivating!” ―Yale R. Jaffe, author of Advantage Disadvantage

“A genuine Canadian crime novel.” ―Midwest Book Review

Here’s the set-up:

CFBI agent Jasmine McLellan leads a psychically gifted team in the hunt for a serial arsonist―a murderer who has already taken the lives of three people.

Jasi and her team members―Psychometric Empath and profiler Ben Roberts and Victim Empath Natassia Prushenko―are joined by Brandon Walsh, the handsome but skeptical Chief of Arson Investigations. In a manhunt that takes them from Vancouver to Kelowna, Penticton and Victoria, they are led down a twisting path of sinister secrets.

Sifting through ashes and clues, Jasi realizes that there is more to the third victim than meets the eye. Perhaps not all of the victims were that innocent. The hunt intensifies when she learns that someone they know is next on the arsonist’s list.

Unleashing her gift as a Pyro-Psychic, Jasi is compelled toward smoldering ashes and enters the killer’s mind―a mind bent on destruction and revenge. And in the heat of early summer, Jasi discovers that a murderer lies in wait…much closer than she ever imagined.

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If your wife makes a date to meet after she’s dead, would you show up? Turn on all the lights before you check out this free sample of our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, Scott Nicholson’s Speed Dating With The Dead

August 18, 2011March 18, 2011 by KND

A paranormal conference at a haunted hotel in the Blue Ridge Mountains goes haywire when the experts accidentally stir up the demons. “Keep both hands on your pants, because Scott Nicholson is about to scare them off.”– J.A. Konrath. Speed Dating With The Dead — just 99 cents on Kindle!

Here’s the set-up for Speed Dating With The Dead by Scott Nicholson, the bestselling author of The Red Church, Transparent Lovers, and Disintegration:

When Digger Wilson brings his paranormal team, Spirit Seekers International, to the White Horse Inn, he is skeptical that his dead wife will keep her half of the bargain. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, but just before she died, she promised to meet him there.

When one of the conference guests channels a mysterious presence and an Ouija board spells out a pet phrase known only to Digger and his wife, his convictions are challenged.

And when guests start to disappear, Digger and his daughter Kendra must face the circle of demons that view the hotel as their personal playground.

Because soon the inn will be closing for good, angels can’t be trusted, and demons don’t like to play alone . . .

“Where do authors get their ideas?” is a common question:

For Speed Dating With The Dead, Nicholson says:

The Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock, NC, kept a “ghost register” at the desk for recording encounters. I hosted a paranormal conference there in 2008 that inspired the novel.

About the Author:

“Scott Nicholson is the kind of writer who always thrills and always entertains.” –Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“Scott Nicholson understands that the best horror novels achieve primal fear through a combination of sustained atmosphere, richly drawn characters, and believable if uncanny evils that draw unholy power from everyday lives.” –Christopher Ransom, author of the international bestseller, The Birthing House

“A master of atmospheric suspense.” –Eric Wilson, NY Times bestselling novelist

“Scott Nicholson knows the territory. Follow him at your own risk.”–Stewart O’Nan, Boston Noir

“Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares.”–Bentley Little, His Father’s Son

“Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off.”– J.A. Konrath / Jack Kilborn

Scott Nicholson is author of 12 novels, five story collections, six screenplays, and four comics series. His first novel THE RED CHURCH was a Stoker Award finalist. Much of his work is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where he works as a freelance editor and journalist.

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Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day: Full 3-volume set of Gordon Ryan’s sweeping family saga Spirit of Union, all in one for just $3.99 — and here’s a free sample!

August 18, 2011March 17, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Gordon Ryan’s sweeping family saga Spirit of Union follows the Callahan family from its roots in Ireland to the US and around the world. Now you can read the entire 820-page trilogy in a single Kindle book for just $3.99!

Here’s the set-up:

Gordon Ryan has been a traditionally published author since 1994. In 2010, Pegasus Publishing republished each of his former novels and released his new thrillers, State of Rebellion and Uncivil Liberties.

Vol. I – Destiny: Fleeing an abusive father and a hopeless life in Ireland in 1895, nineteen-year-old Tom Callahan takes passage on a ship bound for America. On board, he meets Katrina Hansen, a young Norwegian woman traveling to Utah. It’s not a likely match. The brash Irishman is a Catholic, a brawler and a young man without prospects. Destiny is a sprawling historical novel set at the turn of the 19th century, played out in such far-flung places as New York City, the gold fields of Alaska and Old Mexico.

Vol. II – Conflict: It’s 1917 and American has entered World War I. The Callahan’s son has joined with what President Woodrow Wilson is calling “the fight to make the world safe for democracy.” Set against turbulent events in world history and filled with vivid scenes as well as tender emotions, Conflict takes the reader around the world.

Vol. III – Heritage: Tom and Katrina Callahan’s three children have grown up and are making their way in a world that is propelling itself toward World War II. Tess has her heart set on a Hollywood movie career; PJ is a successful sheep rancher in New Zealand and Tommy is pursuing his career in the Marine Corps and learning not only about war, but about the perils of romance. In this, the final volume of Spirit of Union, Gordon Ryan follows Tom and Katrina into their middle and late years. Living in a time when aviation is becoming a viable industry, the stock market is booming and Hitler’s evil machinations are on the horizon, the world, and the Callahans, are embroiled on every front. Set in Hawaii, the Dominican Republic, South America, Great Britain and the United States, Heritage is filled with scenes and characters that will linger in your mind long after you close the book.

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Gordon Ryan is a writer with a varied history. He has lived and worked in

six nations and a dozen or more states, including Alaska. He was a Recon Marine in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and served in the Air Force in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He also served as a member of the American Embassy staff in Dublin, Ireland, during the violent seventies.

His first published novel, Dangerous Legacy, was released in 1994 and he has published nine more over the intervening years. The “Pug Connor” novels, State of Rebellion and Uncivil Liberties are his newest releases.

Needing to feed his family, he never gave up his day job as a city manager and chief executive of large homeowners’ associations, but once he discovered the joys of fiction, writing has been the driving force. Now writing full-time, Gordon and his wife, Colleen, spend their time between the American northwest and the beautiful South Pacific.

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Even better than wearing the green tomorrow? Read a free sample of our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day today: Eddie Stack’s collection The West: Stories from Ireland

August 18, 2011March 16, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

With its wit, originality and sensitivity, Eddie Stack’s collection The West: Stories from Ireland belongs in the best tradition of Irish writing — Just $2.99 cents on Kindle!

Here’s the set-up:

Praise for Eddie Stack’s writing:

“Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostalgic, Mr. Stack’s fiction

is versatile and engaging…a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice…

securing (him) a place in the celebrated tradition of his country’s

storytelling.” — New York Times Book Review

“There’s a genuinely wild and fugitive comic sense –– that

puts one in mind of Myles na Gopaleen as much as the salt spume

dam, George Makay Brown. Never sentimental, often funny, always

accurate, this is pithy, finely tuned writing of a high order.” — The Observer

Seven short stories set in the West of Ireland. From the opening tale, “Time Passes,” to the final story, “Derramore,” these pieces reveal the soul of a community–its hopes, dreams and schemes.

In The West, fatalism and possibility run side by side, the Otherworld is as near as the Church–the double focus of the Irish.

With storyteller intimacy, Eddie Stack evokes life in a series of almost cinematic prose portraits of people, places and situations. The stories are smooth, each one remarkably different, but they click together to form a pattern. With its wit, originality and sensitivity, The West stands in the best tradition of Irish writing.

Reviewers Said:

“Eddie Stack’s stories from the West of Ireland received enthusiastic and well deserved praise from the New York Times upon their publication. This is a collection of timeless, original and heartfelt work from a writer who should be better known, not only by those interested in Ireland but by all readers of good contemporary fiction.”

“Discovered this author on an indie Kindle site, and downloaded this collection on a whim. It’s as advertised, quite captivating and presented in a clear, clean voice. I had the good fortune to spend a little bit of time in Ireland many years ago, and it brought back memories. I’ll be checking out more of Mr. Stack’s work.”

“Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostaligic, Mr. Stack’s fiction is versatile and engaging…a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice…securing (him) a place in the celebrated tradition of his country’s storytelling.” —New York Times Book Review

“There’s a genuinely wild and fugitive comic sence in these tales that puts one in mind of Myles na Gopaleen as much as the salt spume dam, George Makay Brown. Never sentimental, often funny, always accurate, this is pithy, finely tuned writing of a high order.” —Robert Carver, Observer (UK)

These are beautiful, timeless stories about an Ireland that is left behind as its citizens emigrate to America or shuttle back and forth to England to find work. The characters come alive as the dialogue tumbles out of the pages to show us a strange, innocent world where storytelling, drinking, dancing, religion, revolution, fairies, family loyalties and class differences make up the fabric of daily life.

About the Author:

Eddie Stack is an Irish writer. He received a Top 100 Irish American Award and American Small Press of the Year Award for The West: Stories from Ireland.

His work is included in State of the Art: Stories from New Irish Writers; Irish Christmas Stories, The Clare Anthology and Fiction in the Classroom.

His stories have also appeared in literary reviews Fiction, Confrontation, Whispers & Shouts and Criterion. Stories from The West have been read on radio worldwide and a CD of four stories read by the author, with music by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill is also available. His collection of stories, Out of the Blue, was published in Spring 2006. He recently won the Caomhnu Award for short fiction published his novel Heads, which is included in MediaBistro’s Best eBooks of 2010 List.

Eddie Stack was co-founder and artistic director of the Irish Arts Foundation in San Francisco. He was a member of the Irish trade group Last Night’s Fun with Tommy Peoples, Paddy Keenan, Johnny Moynihan and the late Shane Holden. He is currently working on a book about the culture and traditional arts of Doolin, County Clare. Due out in 2011, the book includes interviews with Micho Russell and Paddy Shannon as well as profiles on the Russell and Killoughery brothers. It has features on storytelling, dancing as well as music and songs from Doolin.

For more information: www.eddiestack.com

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