Archive for May 2012
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Saturday, May 19 – Two Great Reads for under $3 — Save 77% on Jenna Blum’s Unsentimental Novel of the Holocaust, THOSE WHO SAVE US, plus … Don’t miss P.B. Ryan’s STILL LIFE WITH MURDER (NELL SWEENEY MYSTERIES BOOK 1) (Today’s Sponsor)
May 19, 2012 | 
Author But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, Book 1)
Here’s the set-up:
Book #1 of P.B. Ryan’s acclaimed historical mystery series featuring Boston governess Nell Sweeney and opium-smoking former battle surgeon Will Hewitt. Long thought to have died during the Civil War, Will is arrested for murder, and it’s up to Nell to prove his innocence.
Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime.
“A beautiful combination of entertaining characters, minute historical research, and a powerful evocation of time and place. I’m very glad there will be more to come.” New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly
“P.B. Ryan makes a stunning debut with Still Life With Murder…I can’t wait for the next installment.” Bestselling author Victoria Thompson
“If you like fast moving, accurately drawn, historical mysteries, you won’t go wrong by trying Still Life With Murder.” Reviewing the Evidence
“Still Life With Murder is sheer perfection… gripping… powerful… unforgettable…You’ll know you’ve read one hell of a story after you turn the last page!” Reader to Reader Reviews
“This is the first book in the acclaimed Gilded Age Mysteries series, and has many things to recommend it… a tidy package of well-drawn characters, lively story and historical verisimilitude.” MyShelf.com
“…a highly entertaining book with a well-drawn pair of characters who have both sparkling chemistry and conversation. I’m looking forward to more Nell Sweeney mysteries.” All About Romance
“With its rich sense of place and time and a crisp, intelligent plot, readers will speed through this tale and be clamoring for more.” Bestselling author Earlene Fowler
“Utterly absorbing. Vividly alive characters in a setting so clearly portrayed that one could step right into it. A very clever plot in which each clue is clearly offered and yet the identity of the murderer is a complete surprise.” Roberta Gellis
“This debut mystery is a winner, with a feisty heroine, a colorful historical backdrop and a strong mystery rife with complexities. An ideal blend of history and mystery.” Romantic Times BookReviews
About the Author: Patricia Ryan has written more than two dozen novels, which have garnered rave reviews and been published in over twenty countries.
A RITA winner (for Silken Threads) and four-time nominee, she is also the recipient of two Romantic Times Awards and a Mary Higgins Clark Award nomination for the first book of her historical mystery series featuring Boston governess Nell Sweeney, which she wrote under the name P.B. Ryan.
Pat’s Evil Twin, Pamela Burford, is also a published romance novelist. Visit Pat’s website at patricia-ryan.com
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
 Kindle Daily Deal: Those Who Save Us
Trudy was only three when she was liberated from Buchenwald with her mother, Anna. For 50 years Anna never discussed the war with her daughter, but guilt drives Trudy to investigate: was her father a Nazi officer? What Trudy unearths is the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother’s life.
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Free Classics: The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne by Kathleen Thompson Norris.
Every Friday, Marilyn Knapp Litt, who blogs at ClassicKindle.com, brings us her recommendation of a free classic book to discover (or rediscover) on Kindle. Find more of Marilyn’s recommendations at her blog, ClassicKindle.com, a guide to the best free and inexpensive classic literature for the Kindle. You can also get Marilyn’s blog on Kindle and I recommend that you “Like” the Classic Kindle Facebook page as well so you don’t miss anything. Here’s Marilyn’s post:
“The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne” is a 1912 novel by Kathleen Thompson Norris. The few people who have reviewed it on Amazon have given it 5 stars – just the sort of undiscovered treasure I like to find.
All Santa Paloma had taken pride in the fact that Barry Valentine, only twenty, had been offered the editorship of the one newspaper of Plumas, a little town some twelve miles away, and had prophesied a triumphant progress for him, to the newspapers of San Francisco, of Chicago, of New York! But Barry had not been long in Plumas when he suddenly married Miss Hetty Scott of that town, and in the twelve years that had passed since then the golden dreams for his future had vanished one by one, until to-day found him with no one to believe in him—not even himself.
So we have a hero in need of rehabilitation it appears. Of course he is now widowed.
Mrs. Burgoyne comes to town and her neighbors try to figure out her lack of airs:
Except for the amazing emeralds that blazed beside her wedding ring, and the diamonds she sometimes wore, Mrs. Burgoyne might have been a trained nurse in uniform.
“It is a pose,” said Mrs. Willard White, at the club, to a few intimate friends. “She’s probably imitating some English countess. Englishwomen affect simplicity in the country. But wait until we see her evening frocks.”
But she does not change. Here she explains her taste in furnishings to a disbelieving neighbor . . .
Captain Holly apparently got the very best of everything when he furnished this place, and I reap the benefit. It’s so nice to feel that one needn’t buy a chair or a bed for ten years or more, if one doesn’t want to!”
“Dear, sweet people, the Hollys,” said Mrs. White, pleasantly, utterly at a loss. Did people of the nicer class speak of furniture as if it were made merely to be useful? “But what a distinct period these things belong to, don’t they?” she asked, feeling her way. “So—so solid!”
“Yes, in a way it was an ugly period,” said Mrs. Burgoyne, placidly. “But very comfortable, fortunately. Fancy if he had selected Louis Quinze chairs, for example!”
Well, even today that response would upset our expectations. And isn’t that what you look for in plot? And how will we tie her together with our young man in need of self-help? Simplicity, self-help, this sounds like 2012 as much as one hundred years ago. Enjoy!
Click here to get your free copy of The Rich Mrs. by Kathleen Thompson Norris >>>
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Friday, May 18 – Two Great Reads for under $3 — Save 88% on the First Book in P. A. Ritzer’s Historical-Western Trilogy SEVEN OX SEVEN, plus … Don’t miss Courtney Cole”s EVERY LAST KISS (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
Here’s the set-up:
Born a goddess. Controlled by the Fates. Can Macy’s love for her soul mate survive the bonds of time… and death?
17-year old Macy Lockhart is as far from normal as any one girl can be. The problem is, she doesn’t know it yet.
After a bloodstone pendant is mysteriously left on her door, Macy’s life begins to change in ways she’d never dreamed. And while she will eventually come to realize that nothing is ever what it seems, that her life is a tangled web of lies and the Fates themselves pull the strings, for now she is left with only the explanations that they offer her.
Macy is led to believe that if she doesn’t return to a previous doomed life, one in which she served as Queen Cleopatra ‘s handmaiden, the fate of the entire world will be threatened in a way that would destroy history as we know it. She learns that she has lived thousands of lives, each one ending tragically…but none as tragic as this one.
After returning to ancient Egypt, she is faced with heart-wrenching decisions. Unless she interferes with Fate’s plan, the very thing she was born to protect, her soul mate will die leading Marc Antony’s forces against Rome. Can she really stand aside and watch the love of her life die all over again?
In this fascinating novel-length prequel to The Bloodstone Saga, Courtney Cole sets the stage for an epic journey that will have readers holding their breath until the very last page of the very last book has been turned.
What would you do if you held Fate in your hands?
From the reviewers:
The Supernatural Snark says: “Overall, Every Last Kiss is a thoroughly enjoyable start to the Bloodstone series, the world of Cleopatra’s Egypt dazzling our imaginations as the joy and tragedy of love and death plays the keys of our emotions with mightily deft fingers.”
My Vamp Fiction says this about The Bloodstone Saga: “I just have to say this author keeps blowing me away with these books. I’m totally and completely infatuated with them. I’d even go as far as to say that they may just be my favorite series of the year.”
Books With Bite said: “What can I say to express my love for this book? It blew me away! I mean, I was just taken back!! I really, really loved this book! So much great writing, characters, plot, that it left me giddy!!”
Tanya Maries (Goodreads) says: “The Bloodstone Saga is pure literary magic!!!! This is my new literary chocolate — my new literary gold!!!”
Carrie (Goodreads) says: “I feel like this whole series can be described with words like rich, exquisite, romantic…the history of the stories and the world that was created by Ms. Cole are all of those things and more! Her descriptions are like a delicious banquet for the mind.”
Every Last Kiss is the first in this series. It is followed by Fated, With My Last Breath and My Tattered Bonds. The Bloodstone Saga is also available as a complete four-book collection (exclusively on Kindle).
About the author:
Courtney Cole is a novelist that lives near Lake Michigan with her family, her pet iPad and her favorite cashmere socks. She would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. In fact, she loved it so much after writing the Bloodstone Saga, that she began a spin-off series… The Moonstone Saga. Book One, Soul Kissed, is currently available. Ms. Cole is hard at work on her next novel.
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
 Kindle Daily Deal: Seven Ox SevenThe first book of P. A. Ritzer’s historical-western trilogy unfolds in the heart of the Lone Star State circa 1877. After meeting in Kansas, Tom Schurtz and Luke Stuart unite their families and homestead a Texas ranch recently occupied by the Comanche. It’s an epic story of the changing frontier.
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