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Dozens of HarperCollins Titles Reduced to 99 Cents on Kindle!

August 4, 2011 by KND

If there was any doubt that the big agency model publishers are finally getting hip to the new realities of pricing in the Kindle Store, one need look no further than the current set of 99-cent offerings from HarperCollins:

The publisher is making a big splash by offering 20 titles at just 99 cents for the full month of August. Click here to see them along with some other current 99-cent offerings from the publisher.

Or check here to see Kindle Nation’s complete list of quality 99-cent titles — all of them sortable and searchable by category and all of them rated at least 4 stars by at least 4 reviewers!

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In the Battle over eBook Apps on the iPad, Apple Says “My Way or the Highway;” Kindle Replies “Whatever, Dude”

July 28, 2011 by KND

By Steve Windwalker

Earlier this week — as we sat around waiting for Amazon to come clean and announce a Kindle tablet — we conducted a little experiment here at Kindle Nation.

In the midst of considerable internet fanfare, Apple forced a change in the Kindle App for the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod Touch. Basically, the result is that there’s no longer a link to the Kindle Store within the Kindle App.

Our experiment? We thought we would see what would happen if we didn’t have anything to say about it. More of those kinds of news items appear these days on our BookGorilla.com sister blog anyway, so we didn’t feel we’d be letting you down by staying mum.

Why? Well, this is the kind of “issue” that gets a lot of attention from tech bloggers and partisans who believe the world will soon end in a conflagration ensuing from global thermonuclear war between Apple and Amazon. We were curious to see if the change really mattered much to anyone among the thousands of serious readers who visit Kindle Nation each day.

The results are in. We didn’t receive a single email, blog comment, tweet, or Facebook comment or message about the change. We know that a small but significant percentage of our readers read Kindle books on their iPads and other iOs devices, so it’s actually pretty remarkable that there wasn’t a peep or a tweet.

But now that the dust has settled, or now that the dust continues to just sit there, we’ll briefly review what has happened here.

In January 2008, shortly after the launch of the Kindle, Apple’s Steve Jobs commented that the Kindle was “a failed concept from the top” because “nobody reads any more.”
In January of 2010, at the event announcing the launch of the iPad, Jobs said that “Amazon has done a good job with Kindle” but that Apple was “going to stand on their shoulders” and the the successful ebook concept even further with iBooks. Several ebook platforms including Kindle, Nook, and Kobo created free Kindle Apps, all with better selection and better features than the iBooks platform, and it quickly became obvious both that Kindle would be the leading iOs ereading platform and also that Apple was either ill-prepared or unmotivated, or both, to make much of the iBooks platform.
Early this year, Apple said it was going to change the rules for other reading apps on its iOs devices so that users would no longer be able to click on an in-app link to be taken directly, for instance, to the Kindle Store. (Well, that’s not exactly what Apple said. What Apple actually said was that it would grab 30 percent of gross proceeds from all sales generated by in-app ebook sales on platforms such as the Kindle, Nook, and Kobo. 30 percent, of course, constitutes 100 percent of Amazon’s standard share of Kindle ebook sales.)

So it is no surprise that neither Amazon nor the other players would go along with this kind of greedy power play. If there was a surprise, it was

first, that Apple actually followed through and brought this to a head; and
second, that anyone thought it would really be an effective use of Apple’s power.

Instead, it seems like Apple is doing all it can to make itself irrelevant to the serious readers who do most of the buying when it comes to ebooks. And Amazon, obviously recognizing that Apple’s power play changed very little, has played its hand in a very calm, understated way. The company sent the following message Wednesday to Kindle customers who have registered an iOs device for Kindle App use:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We’d like to update you on a change to the Kindle application that affects the way that you access the Kindle Store. In order to comply with recent policy changes by Apple, we’ve removed the “Kindle Store” link from within the app that opened Safari and took you to the Kindle Store.

You can still shop on iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch–just open the Safari web browser and go to Amazon.com. (For quick access, we recommend creating a bookmark in your web browser.) Your Kindle books will be delivered to your Kindle application and automatically downloaded when you open the app. Thanks for being a Kindle customer.

Exactly. But perhaps out of an overabundance of politeness, Amazon didn’t take things one step further. Sure, you can “bookmark” the Kindle Store on your iOs device’s browser. But you can also add the Kindle Store to your iOs Home screen, right alongside your Kindle App, just as you see them in the second row of the screenshot at the right. Here’s how:

Just open your iPad’s Safari browser and click on or enter this link – http://amzn.to/Kindle-on-iOs
When the Kindle Store page opens on your iPad browser, just click on the little icon just to the left of the browser’s URL entry field, and select “Add to Home Screen” from the pulldown menu that pops up, as in the screenshot at right.
Then just find the new Kindle Store icon on your iPad’s Home display, tap it twice so you can move it, and use your fingertip to move it next to your Kindle App. (Note: While you’re at it, you may also want to move the iBooks icon to the same general area, for days when you want to buy expensive books at the prices Steve Jobs feels you should pay for them.)

Over at the Atlantic Wire, blogger Rebecca Greenfield’s view of the Apple power play seems well-considered, if a little more glum than ours: “It looks like everyone involved loses something in the e-reader app store battle,” she writes. She says it is “far more inconvenient for iPad users to get reads on their devices,” but I have to admit that I am not feeling her pain. What’s so hard about tapping the Kindle Store icon and buying a book. You’ll seal the deal and arrive back in your Kindle App a few seconds before the new book downloads. Shazam.

But Wired Epicenter’s Tim Carmody concludes that “Apple’s new rules haven’t knee-capped Amazon in the slightest. Far from it. In fact, Apple’s given them a gift….”

Whatever the case, it is certainly hard to imagine that Apple could make any kind of plausible case that their power play was undertaken for the benefit of iPad or other iOs users. And the more of these silly missteps we see from Apple, the more likely it is that ultimately they will begin to drive even some of their own loyal fans off in the direction of some other tablet from some other company, perhaps a company that already has a stake in the ebook business.

From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: What’s with Vook Books and the Kindle?

June 15, 2021July 27, 2011 by KND

By Steve Windwalker

Thanks to long-time Kindle Nation citizen Nina S. for sending in this perfectly reasonable question about “enhanced” Kindle books with audio and video content:

Hi, Steve…

I am puzzled … why are so many Vook-based books showing up on your listing of books for Kindle? As far as I can determine, I can’t use Vook-based books on my Kindle 3. Or am I way off base?

Cheers, Nina

Well, Nina, maybe you’re a little off base on this one, but that just suggests to me that there are probably a lot of Kindle owners in similar straits, which to me means that someone — either the Vook folks or the Amazon folks or both — could be a better job of marketing or informing Kindle owners about these “Vook-based books.”

Here’s the scoop:

All of the Vook Books – even those that are tagged as “Animated” or “Kindle Edition with Audio/Video and often sold at a higher price — are composed mainly of text that can be read on any Kindle. When you come to a section that is not compatible with your Kindle, you’ll see something like what’s shown in the screenshot at right.
As of now, the enhanced or animated audio/video content that won’t show up on your Kindle is supported on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. If you download a VookBook to your Kindle now but want to view it/read it/hear it later on one of these iOs devices at some time in the future, you can just send it wirelessly to the Kindle app on any such device that is registered to your account. It is also quite likely that such content will be compatible at some point with a new Kindle tablet, even if is not compatible when the K-Tab launches.
If you don’t anticipate owning such a device in the future, you should always check to see if there is a non-enhanced version of the VookBook available. These basic versions contain all the text and are often priced at half of the cost of the enhanced version. And without putting too fine a point on this, let’s just say that you won’t be missing that much. For instance, it’s not like the enhanced version of the Vook title History of Rock and Roll 101: The TextVook is packed with great clips from the past, either audio or video.
As to why you’ve been noticing VookBooks in our Free Book and 99-Center search tool listings lately, it’s just driven by the appearance of these titles at the applicable price points in the Kindle Store. As our web developer Mark likes to say, the lists are created “automagically.” But it occurred to me that it was possible Vook might be focusing more on Kindle marketing in advance of a Kindle tablet launch.

Hope that helps!

Amazon Shares Spike After Hours After Company Announces 51% Increase in YOY 2nd Quarter Sales and Continued Commitment to Plow Cash into Infrastructure

July 26, 2011 by KND

Amazon just announced a blowout second quarter in terms of revenue growth, but it remains to be seen how investors will react short- and longer-term to the fact that the company is plowing huge amounts of cash into building infrastructure and fulfillment capacity to continue its growth in market share. As we’ve said before, we believe that Amazon is well on the way to owning half of the retail book business in the U.S. by 2013.

Kindle sales accelerated compared with the first quarter.

At 4:47 pm Eastern AMZN shares were trading above $227 per share, about 3 percent above the previous all-time high for the stock. The share price was $214.18 when the markets closed at 4 pm today.

Here’s Amazon’s press release:

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 51% to $9.91 Billion

SEATTLE, Jul 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2011.

Operating cash flow increased 25% to $3.21 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.56billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2010. Free cash flow decreased 8% to $1.83 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.99 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2010.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 468 million on June 30, 2011, compared with 465 million a year ago.

Net sales increased 51% to $9.91 billion in the second quarter, compared with $6.57 billion in second quarter 2010. Excluding the $477 million favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales would have grown 44% compared with second quarter 2010.

Operating income was $201 million in the second quarter, compared with $270 million in second quarter 2010. The favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter on operating income was $28 million.

Net income decreased 8% to $191 million in the second quarter, or $0.41 per diluted share, compared with net income of $207 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, in second quarter 2010. Second quarter 2011 net income was positively impacted by equity-method investment activity of $15 million, including a $49 million gain on the sale of an equity position partially offset by $34 million in losses from equity-method investments.

“Low prices, expanding selection, fast delivery and innovation are driving the fastest growth we’ve seen in over a decade,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “Kindle 3G with Special Offers has quickly become our bestselling Kindle at only $139. Customers love the convenience of a 3G reader — no hunting for or paying for Wi-Fi hotspots. Amazon picks up the tab for the 3G wireless, so you have no monthly payments or annual contracts.”

Highlights

Sales growth of Kindle devices accelerated in second quarter 2011 compared to first quarter 2011.

Since AT&T agreed to sponsor screensavers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers is now our bestselling Kindle device – at only $139. With Kindle 3G, there’s no wireless set up and no paying or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots. Kindle 3G’s always-on global wireless connectivity means that wherever you are, you can download books and periodicals in less than 60 seconds and start reading instantly. Amazon pays for Kindle’s 3G wireless connectivity, which means the convenience of 3G comes with no monthly fees, data plans or annual contracts.

Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental, offering students savings of up to 80% off textbook list prices. Tens of thousands of textbooks are available for the 2011 school year. In addition, Kindle Textbook Rental offers the ability to customize rental periods to any length between 30 and 360 days, so students only pay for the specific amount of time they need a book.

The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 110 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers. Over 800,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 65 New York Times Bestsellers. Millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle.

The Company launched MyHabit.com, a membership-only fashion destination offering up to 60 percent off list prices of designer and boutique brands in women’s, men’s and children’s departments, with the convenience of free, instant membership; fast, free shipping and free return shipping in the U.S. on eligible items; and fast, $15 international shipping.

Amazon.com announced that customers will be able to stream TV shows from CBS’s vast library. Amazon Prime customers will be able to instantly watch thousands of episodes from the CBS library at no additional cost to their membership. With the deal, Amazon will add 2,000 episodes to grow the total number of Prime instant videos to more than 8,000 movies and TV shows. Starting this summer, dozens of CBS shows will also become available to Amazon Instant Video customers.

The Company announced three enhancements to Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player: storage plans that include unlimited space for music, free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases and Cloud Player for Web, now on iPad.

Amazon announced that Marketplace sellers can list their products across all its European websites using just one single seller account, allowing sellers to make their inventory available across Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr and Amazon.it. Customers benefit from access to millions of additional products. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) sellers can now also store their products in an Amazon fulfillment center in one country and offer them for sale across all of Amazon’s European websites.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $5.41 billion, up 51% from second quarter 2010.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French, Chinese and Italian sites, were $4.51 billion, up 51% from second quarter 2010. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 36%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 27% to $3.66 billion. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 20%.

Worldwide Electronics and Other General Merchandise sales grew 69% to $5.89 billion. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 62%.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP announced that AWS has been certified as a global technology partner of SAP. Customers can now deploy a variety of SAP solutions in full production environments including SAP(R) Rapid Deployment and SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM).

AWS announced the availability of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle databases, allowing customers to easily set up, operate and scale fully managed Oracle databases in the cloud.

AWS lowered prices for the fifteenth time in four years by eliminating inbound Internet data transfer costs and reducing outbound data transfer costs.

Financial Guidance

The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of July 26, 2011. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and consumer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet and online commerce and the various factors detailed below.

Third Quarter 2011 Guidance

Net sales are expected to be between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion, or to grow between 36% and 47% compared with third quarter 2010.

Operating income is expected to be between $20 million and $170 million, or between 93% decline and 37% decline compared with third quarter 2010.

This guidance includes approximately $180 million for stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets, and it assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions or investments are concluded and that there are no further revisions to stock-based compensation estimates.

A conference call will be webcast live today at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at www.amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company’s financial and operating results.

These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains and develops commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. In addition, the current global economic climate amplifies many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

Our investor relations website is www.amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases and social media postings.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.

Amazon to Announce Quarterly Earnings Today

July 26, 2011 by KND

Investors are looking forward this afternoon to Amazon’s quarterly earnings report, which will be made public shortly after the markets close this afternoon – usually about 4:30 pm Eastern. Then at 5 pm Eastern, Amazon executives will hold their quarterly conference call with market analysts, in which they generally try to avoid saying too much about what’s really going on in the company. We don’t expect any big Kindle announcements until later in the week at the earliest, but if Jeff Bezos makes an appearance on the conference call all bets are off.
Click here to listen to the earnings call on your computer.

Publetariat Dispatch: As Borders Lies Dying…

September 27, 2011July 26, 2011 by KND

Today’sPubletariat Dispatch offers a survey of analysis and reaction to Borders’ failure.

There’s analysis, punditry and post-mortems aplenty where the failure of Borders is concerned.

This Slate piece asserts Borders died primarily of self-inflicted wounds its competitors have avoided. From the article:

Other companies have adapted to the e-reader revolution, and even benefited from it. Other companies have changed to fit the new bookselling paradigm. And other companies are dealing with the drawn-out aftereffects of the recession. The better reason for its demise is that Borders had long lost its competitive edge on many fronts, from corporate strategy to coffee. It died by a thousand—OK, maybe just four or five—self-inflicted paper cuts.

The Wall Street Journal quotes numerous customers of the chain’s "#1 Store" in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and while all of those customers are disappointed, none are surprised.

The Atlantic takes a broader view in its article, Books, Borders and Beyond: How Digital Tech Is Changing Retail:

"But if there’s one thing the Internet takes away from stores, it’s foot traffic. The Web is a shopping mall. So who needs the shopping mall? It’s more convenient for buyers — and cheaper for merchants — to play with a virtual storefront and bypass the high fixed costs of real estate.

"All retailing is vulnerable," says Joel Kurtzman, senior fellow at the Milken Institute and former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review. "I’ve spoken with executives at many major big box retailers, and they’re all very worried about how the digital world is changing their business."

Forbes wonders, Does a Failed Borders Presage a Doomed Bookstore Business?

“As Borders expires, new enterprises will evolve to take book retailing’s place,” wrote Gene Hoffman, one-time president of The Kroger Co. and former chairman and president of Supervalu. “Those new enterprises won’t be conventional book retailers but companies that are on the leading edge of what current customers are responding to.”

National Public Radio raises a question about other possible consequences of the Borders failure in its article, When Borders Closes, Do Doors Slam Shut In Classical Music?

Borders’ buying patterns also made for fan frustrations, Goiffon asserts. "For years," he notes, "we pushed in vain to get them to target buying geographically: Instead of sending most of their stock to the biggest markets for classical music, such as New York, they’d send four or five copies of each title to every single store they had — so New York would sell out and be stuck, while all those other copies languished in other stores around the country."

So if you were in one of the main U.S. classical music markets, like Manhattan or San Francisco, you might never see a label’s biggest releases as you flipped through the bins. For many classical music listeners, browsing is still an important pathway to musical discovery, one that many online sellers haven’t managed to duplicate. And lots of people still prefer physical CDs to downloads. (And classical music metadata is still the beast to be tamed.) The Borders experience left a lot to be desired, for sure, but you could walk into one of their stores and know that you’d see classical music there.

Finally, and most depressingly, The Detroit News looks at the effects Borders’ failure will have on local and national economies and unemployment rates:

Borders workers will be hurt because retail employment has stalled and it could be difficult to find a new job, says John Challenger, chief executive at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago job outplacement consulting firm.

Borders will lose its 10,700 employees nationwide, which represent just less than 0.1 percent of the country’s roughly 14.5 million retail workers, Challenger said.

"That’s a big loss of jobs," Challenger said. "We haven’t seen five-figure mega-layoffs in a while."

It takes a retail worker three to four months on average to find another job in the sector, he said.

Announcing a new page where you can search and sort over 300 quality 99-cent Mystery and Suspense titles for Kindle, all sponsored by our Kindle Nation Thriller of the Week, Brett Battles’ highly acclaimed novel SICK

July 22, 2011 by KND

We’ll be making a big announcement tomorrow about some very cool new features on Kindle Nation, but we’ve been working on this for a while so it’s kind of hard to wait!

So here’s a bit of beginning — a new page where you can find over 300 quality 99-cent Mystery and Suspense titles for Kindle, sortable in a variety of ways, and all sponsored by our Kindle Nation Thriller of the Week, which we’re equally happy to announce is Brett Battles’ highly acclaimed novel SICK.

For now we’ll save you a click and show you exactly how this new 99-cent book search tool will work right here in this post….

But first, a word from … our Kindle Nation Thriller of the Week!

For fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, and Michael Crichton … Daniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. But the nightmare is his. It’s real. And it’s just beginning…. Brett Battles’ SICK (A Project Eden Thriller) – 4.8 out of 5 stars, 27 reviews and just $2.99 on Kindle – From the author of LITTLE GIRL GONE.

Thriller of the Week is a sponsored collaboration between BookLending & Kindle Nation Daily.
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“All you can do is try your best. And never let your mind convince you that empathy is a mistake, because it will try. If you can face the mirror, look yourself in the eye, and admit that you’re doing everything you can to make the lives of as many people as possible as good as it can be, then...
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Friends of the Fallen (HEAVEN’S FALLEN STARS Book 2)
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As the veil thins, so does her patience for needy ghosts.Fifth Wind witch Nora Ashcroft is up to her neck in spirits. When an attack on Medium Rare reeks of possession, the sheriff calls on Nora's psychic charms to get to the bottom of it. But the more she investigates, the more she suspects that...
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Storm a-Brewin': A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Eastwind Witches Cozy Mysteries Book 8)
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"I start with zero. Nobody dies today."The strange note delivered to Howard County, Maryland Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller proves to be a warning shot. Soon Peller and his protégés Detective Sergeants Corina Montufar and Eric Dumas are pursuing a cunning killer basing murders on the Fibonacci...
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The Fibonacci Murders (Howard County Mysteries Book 1)
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A priceless Egyptian vase disappears in front of six witnesses. And, of course, the thief...It's there, then POOF, it's gone.Smith & Westen, New England’s most mismatched investigative team is hot on the trail. The ink is barely dry on snake-lover Phoebe Smith and Susie Homemaker Westen Hughes’...
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Just Smashing: Smith and Westen Mysteries, Book 2
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Wyatt Mazy is a young attorney newly arrived in Bath, New York who has recently opened his own legal practice. Wyatt suffers from a form of Asperger's Syndrome which causes him to repeat ridiculous rituals especially when a pen or eating utensil is in his hand. In this second novel in the WEIRD...
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WEIRD LAWYER #2 (TOUGH TIMES)
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Maisie Swenson has seen a lot of strange things in her career as a hotel manager, so when Mr. Dayton insists there are ghosts in his suite, she handles it with her usual aplomb. When he demands that she visit his room to show her the items that have been moved, she suspects the two empty wine...
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Suite Casualty (An Oceanside Mystery Book 5)
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When I find Matthew Boatman’s door swinging open, I slink into his dark and cat-infested house to make sure he isn’t sick. Surely a law-abiding book editor, pet-minder and unintentional sleuth would always do that?To my horror he’s so sick, he’s dead.The shiny silver arrow in his back is...
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MURDER! THEY MEOWED: Laugh-out-loud adventures of a feisty seaside sleuth (Merry Summerfield Cozy Mysteries Book 3)
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Roger and Suzanne return to Montevideo, Uruguay to attend a festive dinner honoring their friend's promotion to police captain. There's a surprise guest waiting for them when they arrive in their hotel room. Who killed the body they find in the bed? Roger and Suzanne are the lead suspects in a...
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The Body in the Bed (Roger and Suzanne Mysteries Book 5)
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A quiet town. A brutal murder. A bartender caught in the crosshairs.Kallie Brooks thought her worst problem was running out of limes during Happy Hour. That is, until she left The Lazy Gecko one night and found a young woman’s lifeless body in the back seat of her car.In a town as small as Owhiro...
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Bloody Mary, Bloody Murder (Kalliope Brooks Mysteries Book 1)
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'If you only read one book this year make sure that it's this one. Amazing.’ Goodreads Reviewer This is a story about Charlotte, who has two sweet children, a stay-at-home job she loves and a drama-free marriage to a caring and successful man. Life is nearly perfect… at least,...
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Don't Ever Tell: An absolutely unputdownable, nail-biting psychological thriller
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Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Winner for Best Mystery of '22!Amateur sleuth Madison deCordova has trouble convincing locals she’s not a private investigator. Can she help it if half her clients hire In a Pinch Professional Services for ‘creative’ solutions to their problems? Or if she digs...
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Bye, Buy Baby (The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series Book 11)
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If Were tradition forced you to marry at twenty-five, would you do it?Bailey Nordin is feeling the stress of pack obligations arriving too soon in her life.She prefers working on cars to going on a date.A good fight is just a morning’s workout, and Bailey's sarcastic wit has killed any chance of a...
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Bad Attitude (Were Witch Book 1)
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It began with a call...a secret code she’d been taught as a child without ever believing she’d have to use it...an attempted murder...and the last man on earth she wanted to be within ten feet of.Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long...
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Costly Secrets Complete Series Box Set Books 1 - 8: Getting shot meant not going home...that route was closed. And their options weren't limitless. (The Hidden Hideaway)
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Some secrets never wash away…Along the flat Essex coastline, deep in the heart of Southend-on-Sea, the body of a man is discovered in an allotment, half-naked and heavily mutilated.The investigation quickly falls to DS Tomek Bowen of Essex Police who, thirty years before, found his dead brother in...
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Death's Justice: A Chilling Essex Murder Mystery Novel (DS Tomek Bowen Crime Thriller Book 1)
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Are we alone? It was only a matter of time before the truth was revealed....Commander David Bryce is scheduled to lead a routine re-supply run for the Orbital Development Group (ORB) to the fledgling colony on Mars. Without warning, he’s taken away by government agents and told the mission...
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From Beyond
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A Caribbean Thriller!Down in their luck, and looking for a decent payday, Parker Reese and the crew of the island trader Christina, agree to a nefarious smuggling operation. The job – go to the island of Dominica and bring back frozen cadavers for the medical school in Montserrat. The hitch –...
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Dead Reckoning (Parker Reese)
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‘Talk about inconvenient. Not only did I have a dilapidated mansion and no money to repair it, two uppity cats and some cranky guests waiting for breakfast, there was also a dead body in the stairwell.’Josie Waters is the enthusiastic new owner of the Oyster Cove Guesthouse – a ramshackle...
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A Twist in the Tail: An absolutely purrfect cozy mystery (The Oyster Cove Guesthouse Book 1)
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Exclusive Beach Party Takes Murderous TurnDumped by her cheating husband, 44 year old Jenny King is trying to build a new life in the small seaside town of Pelican Cove. Locals are lining up at the Boardwalk Cafe for her tasty cakes and muffins. But when her aunt, a local artist, is accused of...
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Strawberries and Strangers: A Cozy Murder Mystery (Pelican Cove Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)
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An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home make a shocking find. A secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And...
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Whitechapel Rising (John Decker Supernatural Thrillers Book 5)
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Take a trip to Compass Cove, an enchanted town full of magic and mayhem…Zora Wick is at the end of her tether. After a lifetime of bad luck, it seems she’s ended up at rock bottom, saddled with debt from her cheating ex, a dead-end job with no prospects and a studio apartment that’s not even...
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"A superb mystery, among the very best you will read," The International Review of Books. Harry and Puma Ken disappeared ten years ago, and the investigation hit a dead end. A rookie in the police academy at the time, Lucy Williams, was told to leave it to the professionals. But the professionals...
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Blood Royals: A Lucy Williams Thriller (Caribbean Mysteries Book 1)
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From Amazon #1 Best Selling AuthorA sweet, clean romantic suspense that will take you to the shores of a Caribbean paradise!Ivy Sinclair was too busy to take a break. As a PhD student at MIT, her thesis on genetics was the top priority in her life. The rigors of academic life left no place for...
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Hiding In Plain Sight: A Beach Romantic Suspense (Martinique Island Series Book 1)
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The new patient whispered a list of names. One by one they're each dying.Rina Kent was the new hot shot psychiatrist at Holy Saints ward. She also recently married the love of her life, who's also a doctor at the same hospital. Rina felt on top of the world, until one of her patients committed...
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The Patients List: A gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist
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The number one priority for Bradley Reynolds of Maryland’s Organized Crime Taskforce is Andre Hector Federico. The mob boss is old school—a devoted family man, treacherous as hell, and paranoid enough to have escaped Reynolds’s sting. Now Reynolds has a new plan: enlist prize-winning crime...
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Surprise Ending (Kindle Single)
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Two convicts, about to be released from prison, plan to commit a perfect crime which will enrich themselves. No one else will know a crime has been committed. All goes well until they decide Jim Blakely must be eliminated.Jim is camping near Lake Powell in Southern Utah, doing a little amateur...
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Perfect Crimes
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Maisie Swenson was thrilled to host the premiere party for the hottest new movie release in Hollywood at the five-star Oceanside Hotel, but she had no idea how difficult Hollywood types could be. Dramatic and demanding, she could handle but… murder? She needs to charge more for these events....
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Fatal Vacancy (An Oceanside Mystery Book 4)
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A little heartache. A lot of sass. When starting over leads to murder, can a jilted witch catch a Cotswold killer? Felicity Knight wishes she’d never got engaged. Hightailing it out of London to the English countryside after being dumped, the heartbroken woman is doubly flustered when she finds a...
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A Not So Purrfect Murder (A Cotswold Cat Familiar Cozy Mystery Book 1)
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'A masterclass in crime fiction' Jane E JamesWhen DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially-motivated crime.As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar...
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The Fire Killer: The BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat crime thriller from Ross Greenwood (The DI Barton Book 5)
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Here is a selection of tales that fit the "pulp crime" theme to perfection. They feature private investigators, police officers, and even everyday men and women pushed into extraordinary situations. From lowly bars to city streets to suburbia, no place is safe from the pulp crime writer -- and here...
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The Second Pulp Crime MEGAPACK®: 25 More Noir Mysteries
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“Bellicise is an organization built on secrecy. We are the elite. No one can know of your involvement. Not your best friend, not your ex-boyfriend, no one.”She put her hands on Calista’s shoulders and looked her squarely in the eyes. “Calista, can I trust you to keep our...
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Dynam
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Richard Austin Freeman presents an ingenious case in this remarkable detective saga. When a store of priceless jewels vanishes without a trace, the brilliant Dr Thorndyke and his skilled associate Mr Polton are called in to chase a thief who leaves no trace. A mysterious stranger, incendiary bombs...
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The Puzzle Lock (Dr Thorndyke Mysteries Book 17)
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"This review is not enough to remark on this astounding, dazzling, and immersive work of pure literary genius... Without a doubt, the very first line... the very first paragraph... all the way to the last two words of the book will send shivers down your arms." – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Highly...
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The Devil's Glove: A Spellbinding Historical Novel of The Salem Witch Trials
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Decatur, Illinois/1986 - A nasty divorce leaves Cragan Collins with a mountain of bills and her grandmother to support. She takes a job as an ad salesperson for The Gazette. The market is tough, but Cragan finds a mentor in business reporter, Robert Smithson. One icy January day, Robert is found...
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The Friday Night Mystery Club: Book #1 in the Friday Night Mystery Club Series
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A busy tourist town, dazzling wealth, and rampant corruption. The only hope, a damned priest with blood on his hands. Ex-Air Force investigator Father Gabe Devlin arrives in Long Island armed with one clue that he knows he must follow, come what may....
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The Salvation Man: Gabe Devlin Thrillers Book 2
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Vampires who knit. A troublemaking witch. Who killed Granny — and is she really dead?At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to...
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The Vampire Knitting Club: First in a Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series
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A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general’s devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author’s acclaimed technothriller series.Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to...
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