Daily Deals: Bad people win sometimes and sometimes they get caught – a suspense edition
Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen. $ 2.99
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Eve Duncan won’t rest until she finds the truth—and a missing child—in the latest adrenaline-pumping thriller from #1 blockbuster bestselling author
Iris Johansen
One woman’s nightmare…
A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Nine years later, Catherine Ling’s instincts—maternal and professional—tell her that her son is still alive. But she needs the help of someone as driven and obsessed as she is to find him. That person is Eve Duncan.
…is another woman’s duty.
Eve has walked the same path as Catherine, having endured the disappearance of her own daughter, Bonnie. Now Eve must raise her game as a forensic sculptor to another level, using the science of age progression to unite mother and son. But as she is drawn deeper into Catherine’s horror, she must face looming demons of her own. Whoever took Bonnie is still out there—and until he is brought to justice, and Bonnie is brought home, Eve will be forever CHASING THE NIGHT.
“Johansen keeps readers on the edge of their seats.”—Booklist
Eve Duncan series, starting with book 8
Blood Game (2009)
Eight Days to Live (2010)
Chasing the Night (2010)
Eve (2011)
Quinn (2011)
Bonnie (2011)
Sleep No More (2012)
Taking Eve (2013)
Hunting Eve (2013)
Silencing Eve (2013)
Featuring Catherine Ling
What Doesn’t Kill You (2012)
Live to See Tomorrow (2014)
With Roy Johansen
Featuring Hannah Bryson
Silent Thunder (2008)
Shadow Zone (2010)
Featuring Kendra Michaels
With Open Eyes (2012)
Close Your Eyes (2012)
Sight Unseen (2014)
Stand Alone
Pandora’s Daughter (2007)
Dark Summer (2008)
Deadlock (2009)
Storm Cycle (2009)
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Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky. $ 1.99
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Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is as a nanny for her childhood friend Ellen Kendall, an upwardly mobile Manhattan executive whose mother employed Marie’s mother as a housekeeper. After Marie moves in with Ellen, Ellen’s angelic baby Caitlin, and Ellen’s husband, a very attractive French novelist named Benoit Doniel, things get complicated, and almost before she knows what she’s doing, Marie has absconded to Paris with both Caitlin and Benoit Doniel. On the run and out of her depth, Marie will travel to distant shores and experience the highs and lows of foreign culture, lawless living, and motherhood as she figures out how to be an adult; how deeply she can love; and what it truly means to be “bad”.
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Neuromancer by William Gibson. $ 1.99
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“Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. Neuromancer didn’t just explode onto the science fiction scene. It permeated into our consciousness, our culture, our science, and our technology. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer showed us what we were capable of creating and what we were capable of destroying – and illuminated the dark corners of the path we were headed down.” Today, we have this science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term “cyberpunk,” for easing our way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer’s virtual reality has become our own. And yet, William Gibson’s vision still manages to inspire the minds that will take us ever further into the future.
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Her Sanctuary by Toni Anderson. $ FREE.
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Running for her life, ex-FBI agent Elizabeth Ward escapes to Montana with a new identity. She craves peace and solitude, but instead finds handsome rancher, Nat Sullivan.
Nat is trying to hold his ailing family together, while struggling to keep the ranch from bankruptcy. The last thing he needs is a beautiful stranger reminding him there is more to life than work.
But Elizabeth isn’t what she seems. And when a murderer and rapist track her down to the remote ranch, they all find out about the power of revenge.
Revenge or Redemption. Which would you choose?
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I’m tempted to get a digital copy of Neuromancer – I still have my ancient paperback copy. I love Gibson.
I have so many thoughts re Neuromancer. It’s a classic for a reason and I love it, but it’s probably not for everyone. It has a definite noirish, hardboiled quality. And parts of it are dated – it’s interesting to see what parts of the future Gibson predicted mostly or sort of correctly and what he got completely wrong. The thing I love about Gibson is that he writes about things I’m interested in, particularly design.
His later books, imo and iirc, – including the two that come after Neuromancer in that trilogy – have better, more nuanced women characters and a slightly different, less hardboiled, tone.
@cleo: I have my ancient paperback, an ebook version, and an audiobook version. I read/listen to it every few years.
What I find amazing is how much he got right. His prescience is really something; I reread Pattern Recognition again recently and I’m struck by how much resonates today.
I agree that this should be in the library of every reader who is interested in the intersection of business, politics, and technology (gosh that sounds boring but the book isn’t, really). One warning to new readers, though: because it was so groundbreaking, you will feel as if you’ve read parts of this before. But this was written well in advance of the books and movies that make Gibson’s concepts seem so been-there, done-that.
Cleo and Sunita – sold :).
“because it was so groundbreaking, you will feel as if you’ve read parts of this before. But this was written well in advance of the books and movies that make Gibson’s concepts seem so been-there, done-that.”
@Sunita – that’s a great point. I think that often happens with something both groundbreaking and widely copied. I noticed that when I taught history of design a lot – so hard to get students to appreciate the daring of mid 20th C Scandinavian design, frex, when they grew up with Ikea.
@Siruis – I hope you like it.
Forgot to mention, there’s a tiny bit of romance, but no hea or hfn.
Bought a digital copy of Neuromancer this morning for me and my husband; we are both longtime William Gibson fans. I also have a frayed paperback copy. A friend gave it to me when the book first came out. At the time, I was doing free-lance writing about technology and he thought it would be a good read for me. As it happens, I now work as a consulting engineer for a high-tech company, so it is interesting to see what Gibson got right about our connected world.
I am so tempted by the Gibson book even though between me and the spouse we have nearly his entire library. What if I’m stranded somewhere with only my kindle and really need to read it? What then?!? It really is a classic and it was amazing how much he got right (and wrote it on an old manual typewriter people!).
I love how some of his characters from older books pop up in more recent books and finally get a HEA or at a least a HFN. I also love how his writing has matured, but I have a friend who thinks he went too soft and feely. Ha.