So today is supposed to be the start of a 4-day holiday long weekend in which I can take a break and catch up on several things, including sleep. Thus naturally the insomnia decides to wake me up extra early when it knows it can stay in bed all day.
Anyway, KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile-wise it's another nice day for mystery/suspense thriller readers, with some quality backlist things, and as a speculative treat, a Bram Stoker-nominated horror-ish maybe-romantic mystery/suspense thriller as well by one of our own fellow MR member authors.
Widow by Edgar & Stoker Award-nominated Billie Sue Mosiman (
ISFDB entry) is her 1995 Berkley-published mystery/suspense thriller with both horror and romance elements, which garnered her the oft-mentioned nomination for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel.
Mosiman, incidentally, had previously yanked things for KDP Select exclusivity, but has been returning several of her works to Smashwords, where she offers an additonal short story free as well:
Linkage to her author page.
Free with DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon
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Description (scroll down on the product page to the Editorial Reviews to see the author's own note on stuff which influenced the writing of the book, if you're interested)
NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR NOVEL.
A novel of feminism taken to the ultimate limit by a woman who no longer has anything to lose.
First her husband killed their children, then himself. Now she's on her own, and she's bent on making sure it never happens to another woman. It's too late for her...she's already damaged. She's already caught in the depths of despair where only taking the law into her hands holds out any sort of relief. Yet when she stops the evil she's felt compelled to commit, the murders continue. Someone is a copycat, pinning crimes on her, stalking her, teasing her with his devious plan. She can't make him stop. There may be no way out of the trap she's created out of loss, out of desperation.
There's another problem--she's falling in love with the detective who is in charge of tracking her down. Life is a complex series of paradoxes, a spiral of fear and murder where nothing is as it seems.
Lots of repeats in the slushpile today, which had several more pages than usual (with the corresponding eating up of my time; well, it's not like I was using it for sleep). Here's the (probably) non-repeat new stuff, which as I've mentioned, is of overall unusually high quality today.
Previously title-featured Julie Smith returns with a 1994 Ballantine-published 4th in her Edgar-nominated Skip Langdon, Debutante Turned Cop mystery series, originally titled New Orleans Beat but updated for a new internet age:
Death Before Facebook
Sarah Shaber returns with a 2000 Minotaur-published installment in her forensic historian amateur sleuth series:
Snipe Hunt (The Professor Simon Shaw Murder Mysteries)
I.J. Parker returns with a 2003 Minotaur-published installment in her historical Japanese professional sleuth series (I think this is actually a repeat, but it's old enough I don't have it in the just-for-KDP auxiliary account):
The Hell Screen (Akitada Mysteries)
Julie Korzenko offers her 2009 Medallion Press "romantic ecothriller" starring a zoologist and a covert ops agent racing to track down a deadly virus:
Devil's Gold (ZEBRA Chronicles)
Tony Dunbar repeats the 1994 Putnam-published 1st in his critically praised New Orleans foodie lawyer series, which expired early last time, so hopefully those who were disappointed to miss it can pick it up today:
Crooked Man (Tubby Dubonnet Mystery)
Simon & Schuster-published UK writer Catherine Ryan Hyde, whose novel Pay It Forward was turned into a movie, returns to offer a literary fiction novel which was apparently published in the UK and quotes UK newspaper praise but only links up to CreateSpace paperback editions in the main store and I'm not going to bother tracking down the original, so:
Don't Let Me Go
Margaret Tanner returns with another sweeping historical romantic drama set in Australia, which she says was a 2008 "Semi-Finalist in the Amazon Break Through Novel Award" under the title of Storm Girl, and now offered via Books We Love:
Savage Possession Books We Love/BWLPP are offering their usual selection of repeats, if you're missing anything.
ISFDBed Canadian Cheryl Kaye Tardif returns with a possibly useful guide-ish thing for aspiring writers:
How I Made Over $42,000 in 1 Month Selling My Kindle eBooks Her publisher Imajin also has a selection of repeats today.
The Sequart imprint, which is highly recommended by fellow MR member Blue Tyson, is offering another book of comics-related essays for you to enjy, with contributions by Paul Kupperberg and Chuck Dixon, who IIRC were both writers for the actual Batman comics at some point:
Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters
Happy reading if you manage to spot something you think you might like, especially if you didn't already have it before.