KIndle Daily Deals: Dorothy Sayers, M.C. Beaton, horror and nonfiction for kids!

Today's Daily Deals include a classic mystery by Dorothy Sayers, historical romance by M.C. Beaton (Marion Chesney), horror by Skipp & Spector and an inspirational nonfiction for kids!

I absolutely love the Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy Sayers.  Here's your chance to get the first in the series for only $1.99.  (Note that there are Peter Wimsey books that do not feature Harriet Vane.)

Here's today's Kindle Daily Deal, available for $1.99 today!

Strong Poison (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries), by Dorothy L. Sayers.

She is lovely, smart, and talented—and only Lord Peter can save her from the gallows

Lord Peter Wimsey comes to the trial of Harriet Vane for a glimpse at one of the most engaging murder cases London has seen in years. Unfortunately for the detective, the crime’s details are distractingly salacious, and there is little doubt that the woman will be found guilty. A slightly popular mystery novelist, she stands accused of poisoning her fiancé, a literary author and well-known advocate of free love. Over the course of a few weeks, she bought strychnine, prussic acid, and arsenic, and when her lover died the police found enough poison in his veins to kill a horse. But as Lord Peter watches Harriet in the dock, he begins to doubt her guilt—and to fall in love.

As Harriet awaits the hangman, Lord Peter races to prove her innocence, hoping that for the first time in his life, love will triumph over death.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.

252 pages, with a 4.3-star rating from 63 reviews. Text to Speech, X-Ray, Lending enabled.

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Here's today's Daily Romance Deal, available for $1.99 today!

The Scandalous Marriage (Royal Series), by M.C. Beaton.

As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, Lucy Bliss was told she’d make an excellent clergyman’s wife.
Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically, the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. “Lucifer” Wardshire! Why, he was rumored to be as wicked as the devil, with orgies and mistresses—and worse!

As the London Season unfolded, Lucy couldn’t decide who was more abominable, her vulgar mama or the arrogant yet disconcertingly handsome duke. No matter, Lucy vowed to go to any lengths to protect her sister, even if her mission should take her into the very arms of the devilish duke himself….

ABOUT THE SERIES
Countesses, Marquises, Lords and Ladies, Viscounts and Princesses all meet in the Royal series where they at once both live and try to avoid lives of scandal and sin, where love - we pray - trumps all but revenge is sometimes the name of the game, especially if inheritance, notoriety and fortune are part of the hand. Here, many threads are skillfully interwoven in a highly entertaining series that never fails to please or fall short of its mark.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
From 1977 to the early 1990s, Marion Chesney wrote over one hundred romance novels. Now writing as M. C. Beaton, she is the bestselling award-winning author of two internationally successful mystery series - HAMISH MACBETH and AGATHA RAISIN. She lives in the United Kingdom.

239 pages, with a 4.3-star rating from 7 reviews. Kindle Owner's Lending Library, Text to Speech, X-Ray, enabled.

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Here's today's Daily Science Fiction/Fantasy Deal, available for $1.99 today!

The Bridge, by John Skipp.

When the great storm comes, the good life ends. And hell on Earth begins. For 100 years we’ve been tossing our toxic waste over our shoulders. No more. This morning, while we slept, something woke up. It’s virulent. Malign. Intelligent. Ambitious. It’s in our food, our water, our air. It’s inside our bodies themselves. And it’s not leaving. We are.

366 pages, with a 3.9-star rating from 23 reviews. Kindle Owner's Lending Library, Text to Speech, Lending enabled.

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Here's today's Kindle Daily Deal, available for $2.99 today!

Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself, by Jennie Finch.

Throw Like a Girl inspires, motivates, and answers questions on issues that are specific to being a female athlete. Finch’s book addresses the entire life of today’s girl-not just fitness or physical preparation, but how to integrate the lessons of sports into life.

256 pages, with a 4.9-star rating from 42 reviews. Text to Speech, X-Ray, enabled.

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Happy Reading!

Betsy

Kindle Fire Free App of the Day: Genius Scan

Today's Free App of the Day is Genius Scan
Originally $0.99

This is a scanner. It will scan documents using your on-device camera, crop or correct for tilt and then save the image. You can then send the image either as a jpg file or as a PDF to your Kindle, to various cloud services such as Evergreen or Dropbox, or email it to a friend. Yes, you can use it with the Fires with cameras, though taking the image is a bit trickier than it would be with a rear facing camera. Note the PDF file is still just an image--there's no OCR. The app did stop on me a couple times, but the image always seemed to take. You can correct for "keystoning" where a rectangular image has some distortion due to the camera angle. You can also crop. It shows as compatible with the original Fire on my account; this is because you can use it to send pictures on your Fire as PDFs. If you think you'll need to send copies of paper docs on to someone else, you might grab this. I expect it will be improved and also, if a future Fire (or if you have an Android device with a rear facing camera), that will resolve some of the awkwardness of using this app.

15 of 22 reviews are four stars and above.

These apps are compatible with the original Fire and with my Fire HD 8.9" 4G. To tell if an app works for your Fire HD or other Android device registered to your Amazon account, click on the above link and look on the right side of the web page.  Amazon will tell you if it will work with your registered device.

Have fun!

Also check out the other digital deals from Amazon, including great deals on MP3s and videos:

 

"The Corpse Reader," by Antonio Garrido

Winner of the 2012 Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel, this book is a solid mystery for those CSI fans who want a change of setting. Ci Song is a student with his whole life ahead of him until his family is dishonored and Ci looses everything important to him. Still possessing his forensics skills, Ci works with a con-man, identifying the causes of death until word of his ability brings him to the imperial palace to help solve a string of murders.

The Corpse Reader, by Antonio Garrido

"For those who are looking largely for an intriguing murder mystery with all the right trappings and twists with a little bit of historical flair, this will be appreciated. I don't recall the last time I read a mystery I enjoyed so much. Definitely recommended." -- Amazon Reviewer

After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he’s forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself—or was murdered.

His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí’s gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth—especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself.

Inspired by Song Cí, considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during the thirteenth-century Tsong Dynasty draws readers into a multilayered, ingenious plot as disturbing as it is fascinating.

In 2012, The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza).


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A native of Spain, a former educator, and industrial engineer, Antonio Garrido has received acclaim for the darkly compelling storytelling and nuanced historical details that shape his novel The Corpse Reader. This fictionalized account of the early life of Song Cí, the Chinese founding father of forensic science, represents the author's years of research into cultural, social, legal, and political aspects of life in the Tsong Dynasty, as well as his extensive study of Song Cí's own five-volume treatise on forensics. In 2012, The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza). Antonio's previous novel, La Escriba, was published in 2008. Garrido currently resides in Valencia, Spain.

"Night Corridor," by Joan Hall Hovey

Released from a mental institution, Caroline finds unexpected help from a stranger when she is stalked by a predator.

Night Corridor, by Joan Hall Hovey

"It's hard to put a label on exactly what Hovey does with her stories that grab you on page one and do not let go until the last page. Hovey seems to be part Mary Stewart, part Mary Higgins Clark and in no small part, Stephen King. Her unique brand of storytelling is powerful because she tells a story that takes you deep into the psyches of almost all of her characters. She writes in third person omniscient point of view, so you get to know everyone in the story--and wind up afraid of most of them because they almost all seem to be touched with evil in some way. And you cannot stop reading." -- Amazon Reviewer

After nine years in Bayshore mental institution, once called the lunatic asylum, Caroline Hill is finally being released.

There will be no one to meet her. Her parents who brought her here…are dead.

They have found her a room in a rooming house, a job washing dishes in a restaurant. She will do fine, they said. But no one told that women in St. Simeon are already dying at the hands of a vicious predator. One, an actress who lived previously in her building.

And others.

And now, as Caroline struggles to survive on the outside, she realizes someone is stalking her.

But who will believe her' She's a crazy woman after all.

Then, one cold winter's night on her way home from her job, a man follows and is about to assault her when a stranger intercedes.

A stranger who hides his face and whispers her name.


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In addition to her critically aclaimed novels, Joan Hall Hovey's articles and short stories have appeared in such diverse publications as The Toronto Star, Atlantic Advocate, Seek, Home Life Magazine, Mystery Scene, The New Brunswick Reader, Fredericton Gleaner, New Freeman and Kings County Record. Her short story Dark Reunion was selected for the anthology investigating Women, Published by Simon & Pierre.

Ms. Hovey has held workshops and given talks at various schools and libraries in her area, including New Brunswick Community College, and taught a course in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. For a number of years, she has been a tutor with Winghill School, a distance education school in Ottawa for aspiring writers.

She is a member of the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick, past regional Vice-President of Crime Writers of Canada, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

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The photo of myself with Stephen King was taken in London, England at a writer's workshop, in 1984. Mr. King is as wonderful a speaker (well, almost) as he is a writer.

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Free and bargain Kindle books! (Thursday May 30)

Today's selection includes two free and two bargain Kindle books!

Liquid Fear, by Scott Nicholson. (Still 0.99?)

From horror master Scott Nicholson comes this 99-cent deal - where a pharmaceutical trial has terrifying and sinister results.

"Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody." - J.A. Konrath, Stirred

"Scott Nicholson knows the territory. Follow him at your own risk." - Stewart O'Nan, A Prayer for the Dying

"This is one author who aims for the kill and never misses." - Jeremy Robinson, Torment

When Roland Doyle wakes up in an unfamiliar motel room with a strange man’s wallet in his pocket and a woman’s dead body in the bathroom, he fears the worst…and that’s before he finds the vial of pills labeled "take one every 4 hrs or else." Or else what' Ten years ago, Dr. Sebastian Briggs’s clinical drug trial for a cutting-edge fear-response drug went horribly wrong — or did it' It’s true that one trial participant died and five others were left with no memory of what happened to them. But now several interested parties, including a major pharmaceutical company and an ambitious U.S. senator, are willing to back Briggs’s continued research. All he has to do is recall his five surviving "volunteers," whose addiction to a mysterious drug has left them largely at his disposal. They will do anything necessary to keep the pills coming and to stave off the creeping phobias, intense sexual impulses, and all-consuming madness that lurk on the edges of their minds. It’s easy enough for the good doctor to lure the survivors back to the remote Monkey House, where the original trials took place. But when the pills finally run out…that’s when the real show begins.

280 pages, with a 3.4-star rating from 221 reviews.

        

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THEN LIKE THE BLIND MAN: Orbie's Story, by Freddie Owens Wegela. (Still free?)

An unforgettable tale of prejudice, kindness, and justice in the 1950s. "Beautiful literary fiction, in the grand Southern tradition."

"Reminiscent of To Kill A Mockingbird, this "sensitive and gripping" coming-of-age story evokes backcountry Kentucky in the troubled 1950's in prose that's spare yet lyrical -- a "special" novel worthy of joining the ranks of an illustrious Southern literary tradition." - Kindle Nation

"Every once in awhile, you read a book in which every element fits together so perfectly that you just sit back in awe at the skill of the storyteller. Then Like the Blind Man is one of these books. ...[It] grabs you from the very first page and carries you along, breathless and tense, until the very last, very satisfying sentence. Freddie Owens has created something special." - The San Francisco Book Review

"In an American coming-of-age novel, the author presents a stunning story with clarity and historical accuracy, rich in illuminating the Appalachian culture of the time period. ...[It] brings history alive, depicting American union labor practices and the racial prejudices that were so prevalent in the 1950's." - Publisher's Weekly

A storm is brewing in the all-but-forgotten backcountry of Kentucky. And, for young Orbie Ray, the swirling heavens may just have the power to tear open his family’s darkest secrets. Then Like The Blind Man: Orbie’s Story is the enthralling debut novel by Freddie Owens, which tells the story of a spirited wunderkind in the segregated South of the 1950s and the forces he must overcome to restore order in his world. Rich in authentic vernacular and evocative of a time and place long past, this absorbing work of magical realism offered up with a Southern twist will engage readers who relish the Southern literary canon, or any tale well told.

Nine-year-old Orbie already has his cross to bear. After the sudden death of his father, his mother Ruby has off and married his father’s coworker and friend Victor, a slick-talking man with a snake tattoo. Since the marriage, Orbie, his sister Missy, and his mother haven’t had a peaceful moment with the heavy-drinking, fitful new man of the house. Orbie hates his stepfather more than he can stand; this fact lands him at his grandparents’ place in Harlan’s Crossroads, Kentucky, when Victor decides to move the family to Florida without including him. In his new surroundings, Orbie finds little to distract him from Granpaw’s ornery ways and constant teasing jokes about snakes.

As Orbie grudgingly adjusts to life with his doting Granny and carping Granpaw, who are a bit too keen on their black neighbors for Orbie’s taste, not to mention their Pentecostal congregation of snake handlers, he finds his world views changing, particularly when it comes to matters of race, religion, and the true cause of his father’s death. He befriends a boy named Willis, who shares his love of art, but not his skin color. And, when Orbie crosses paths with the black Choctaw preacher, Moses Mashbone, he learns of a power that could expose and defeat his enemies, but can’t be used for revenge. When a storm of unusual magnitude descends, he happens upon the solution to a paradox that is both magical and ordinary. The question is, will it be enough?

Equal parts Hamlet and Huckleberry Finn, it’s a tale that’s both rich in meaning, timely in its social relevance, and rollicking with boyhood adventure. The novel mines crucial contemporary issues, as well as the universality of the human experience while also casting a beguiling light on boyhood dreams and fears. It’s a well-spun, nuanced work of fiction that is certain to resonate with lovers of literary fiction, particularly in the grand Southern tradition of storytelling.

326 pages, with a 4.1-star rating from 91 reviews.

        

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Criminal Decision, by Jill Kramer. (Still 3.99?)

In this debut novel, journalist Jill Kramer presents a poignant look into the family court system and its flaws in protecting children.

"Jill Kramer's realistic novel of the agony of a single mother who tries and fails to protect her toddler daughter from a sexually abusive and powerful grandfather is sadly played out daily in this country. Readers will be shocked to learn how corrupt court appointed officials, venal attorneys and inept judges discount and discredit Gina Seymour and deliver her three year old daughter Emily into the roving hands of her vapid ex-husband's deviant father. Smoothly written and full of unforgettable scenes, Criminal Decision is a must read for anyone concerned about the welfare of children too young to protect themselves." -- Amazon Reviewer

"A wonderful, knock-down true-to-life story! Horrifying and entertaining at the same time." -- Dr. Mo Therese Hannah, Professor of Psychology, Siena College, and producer of the annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference.

"Jill Kramer, an exceptional reporter, has written a fast-paced, engaging novel about an obviously important topic." -- Katherine Ellison, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of THE MOMMY BRAIN: HOW MOTHERHOOD MAKES US SMARTER.

Gina Seymour wages a one-woman battle against a corrupt family court as she tries to protect her 3-year-old daughter from sexual abuse. But the judge, allied with the wealthy and powerful pedophile, threatens to place the little girl in the very hands of her molester. The only way Gina can protect her daughter is to break the law and take her on the run.

Inspired by actual cases covered by award-winning journalist Jill Kramer, CRIMINAL DECISION exposes the tragic failings of family courts throughout the nation which mistakenly place thousands of children in the homes of their abusers.

249 pages, with a 4.7-star rating from 22 reviews.

        

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How to Organize Your Life (At Home), by Higher Read. (Still free?)

Tips for people who live in small spaces, have limited time, or have roommates. So whether you own a mansion or rent a room, this book can help you take your home from chaos to order. Free today!

"Any book that helps me to organize my postage-stamp-sized apartment is welcome in my library, and this book has very useful ideas, some quite easy and inexpensive." -- Amazon reviewer

Organizing your home is essential to enjoying your home. You can live in an architectural masterpiece, but if you can’t see the floor, it is hard to appreciate it. How to Organize Your Life (At Home) takes you room-by-room through your house and shows you how to organize and enjoy your home again.

The first book in this series, How to Organize Your Life (Every Day), provided detailed steps for organizing your daily routine. This sequel helps you bring that kind of order to your home space. Both books are for people who want to live an organized life, but are not sure exactly where to start.

How to Organize Your Life (At Home) also includes tips for people who live in small spaces, have limited time, or have roommates. So whether you own a mansion or rent a room, this book can help you take your home from chaos to order.

77 pages, with a 4.8-star rating from 16 reviews.

        

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