From the new crop of
100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or less:
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman for $1.99. Also $1.99 at
Kobo and
B&N.
I highly recommend this. The book contains many what seem like annoying side trips along the way, but they all come together as relevant in the end.
Quote:
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness?
Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead end—a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household.
In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth?
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Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. (Despite the title, not really about zombies - lol). $1.99. Also $1.99 at
Kobo and
B&N
Quote:
Meet Quentin P.
He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble.
He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who nonetheless is encouraged by the increasingly affirmative quality of his dreams and his openness in discussing them.
He is a thoroughly sweet young man for his wealthy grandmother, who gives him more and more, and can deny him less and less.
He is the most believable and thoroughly terrifying sexual psychopath and killer ever to be brought to life in fiction, as Joyce Carol Oates achieves her boldest and most brilliant triumph yet—a dazzling work of art that extends the borders of the novel into the darkest heart of truth.
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Wonder Audio/Ebooks has some interesting new noir out at Fictionwise. There is a compendium of 7 authors with 3 stories and/or novellas each for $4.24, or $3.60 for Buywise members this week with the 15% discount. With the 45% off coupon available now, code 092812, that brings the prices down to $2.33 or $1.98. These are all multiformat.
Noir Masters Triple Threat Treasury.
The authors:
EDWARD D. HOCH
FRANK KANE
HAL ELLSON
ED LACY
ART CROCKETT
BRYCE WALTON
RICHARD S. PRATHER
TOC:
The individual authors with their 3 stories are also available at $.99 or $.84, with coupon $.54 or $.46. These are the same stories as in the Treasury.
See the rest here
https://store.fictionwise.com/servlet/mw#booklist