FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {02-14-2020}

Freezer Burn (Peri Minneopa Mysteries Book 1) by Gayle Carline

Peri Minneopa has heard her name mangled a thousand ways and hates them all. What she likes are clean houses, and dirty martinis.
She recently traded in her housecleaning business for a P.I. license. Her timing seems perfect, when she cleans a former client’s freezer and finds a severed hand inside, wearing an expensive ring. The client, Benny Needles, is a Dean Martin fanatic who swears he’s innocent. But where there’s a hand, there’s a body, waiting to be found.
It’s a brand new world for Peri, and she has a lot to learn. Her first lesson is that investigating murder can be dangerous. Her boyfriend, Skip, a detective in the Placentia Police Department tries to warn Peri, but she can’t stop sticking her nose into the middle of things. In the middle of trying to solve the case, Peri takes on a surveillance job and finds that even surveillance isn’t always low risk.
As these two cases collide, will Peri learn the truth behind both of them? And more important, will she ever get that dirty martini?

Blue Asylum: A Novel by Kathy Hepinstall

A woman falls in love with a wounded Civil War solider in this “fine novel embroidered with rich imagery”about the line between sanity and madness (Kirkus Reviews).
 
When Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness, she knows the real criminal is her husband. After all, the only thing she’s guilty of is disagreeing with him on notions of justice, cruelty, and property.
 
Sent away to a remote Florida island, Iris meets an odd collection of residents in Sanibel Asylum: some seemingly sane, some wrongly convinced they are crazy, some dangerously unstable. And while Iris isn’t sure what to make of haunted Confederate soldier Ambrose Weller–whose memories terrorize him into wild fits that can only be calmed by the color blue–she does know that his gentleness and dark eyes call to her like nothing she’s ever known before . . .
 
“Deftly interweaving past and present, Hepinstall sets the struggles of her characters against the rigidity of a traditional Southern society and the brutality of war in an absorbing story that explores both the rewards and perils of love, pride, and sanity itself.” —Publishers Weekly

A Different Alchemy (The Great De-evolution) by Chris Dietzel

As the human population continues to decline, most people travel south to maintain a semblance of the life they know. Entire cities are abandoned. But following a senseless act of violence, one man travels north, toward forgotten lands. Is it possible for a loving husband and father, surrounded by reminders of mankind’s impending extinction, to reclaim what he lost?

A DIFFERENT ALCHEMY is the tale of a man realizing that everyone has their own pain and their own way of dealing with it. It is the story of one man’s loss mirroring an entire society’s sorrow. It is also a lesson about the importance of forgiveness.

Be warned, this is not a story for people who need action sequences or pretty endings. But if you love introspective, reflective stories or want a different take on the end of mankind, this is for you.

Critical acclaim for the Great De-evolution books:
“One of the best dystopian series to come out in a long time.” – Three Cats and a Girl

“[Dietzel] has accomplished something remarkable: he really has written a book that is one of a kind.” — Nancy Roberts

“All I can say is trust me and give this book a read.” — The Lazy Book Reviewer

“A true wakeup call to everyone… One powerful novel.” — Fran Lewis – Just Reviews

“Dystopian in focus yet incredibly human in its exploration and atmosphere… This is a book, a work, worthy of each and every one of those 5 star reviews.” — Mack Meijers – Authors on the Air

“One of the best books I have ever read… Plays on one of our deepest fears, something we all know will happen one day.” — Terry Reid – The Four Corners of Santerria

“A highly addictive book… A must read for everyone.” – The Reading Room

“Highest possible rating.” — OnlineBookClub.org

False Memoryby Meli Raine

It all started with the bereavement flowers with my name on them.

Not the best way to wake up, right? I work in a flower shop. I know a funeral arrangement when I see one.

I know a killer when I see one, too. And one is standing in my hospital room right now, straight behind the man who saved my life.

I can’t tell anyone the truth, because that’s the fastest way to really die. So I do the next best thing. I “lose” my memory.

I fake my amnesia.

Pretending not to remember a brutal attempted murder has its perks. The killer is backing down, spending less time around me, loosening the noose.

The less I claim to recall, the more my rescuer, Duff, works to help me “remember.” I hate lying to him.

But he doesn’t understand that my memory is dangerous. To me. And to him.

Fooling everyone isn’t easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Except it’s starting to look like I’ve been fooling myself.

In more ways than one.

Read Book 1 in the newest series from USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine.

“…intrigue and dark humor on display in this thriller…”

While the immediate–and more compelling–tension in Raine’s (A Shameless Little Bet, 2018, etc.) heart-pumping series opener comes from Lily’s constant proximity to her would-be killer, the action takes place against a backdrop of secret government scandals.

Fortunately, Lily’s voice is captivating, wry, and tough enough to sell this thriller. The novel ends with a cliffhanger that startles, if only because readers will have become so attached to Lily.