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Thanks for all the great tips today, NightBird - I bought Wilsig's first book (Mindfulness and Murder--still TBR) a while back, love having the next one free...
HarperCollins marked this one down to $2.99:
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
Still haven't read any of his books, but I've seen this one cited several times as being v. good if you're interested in Orange County/SoCal history |
YW! I put Mindfulness and Murder on my wishlist in case the freebie is good.
Gone, Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane is $3.99. It was reduced to $1.99 in 2010, but if you missed it then, this is still a good price. I personally think this is his best book: Topnotch writing, a complex story with some real moral dilemmas, and a shocking ending.
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Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, Indian summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back. Despite enormous public attention, rabid news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation repeatedly hits a brick wall. Then a second child disappears....As the two detectives intensify their search, they encounter a media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than solving them, a midnight ransom drop that explodes into a firefight, a city seething with secrets and rage, and a faceless power determined to keep the children lost forever.
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