DAILY DEALS: Romantic Suspense and books about the Crown
Book Dealsdaily deals5 Comments
Broken Bonds by Karen Harper $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Haunted by the past…
Cold Creek is a place with a dark history, especially for the Lockwoods. Now adults, the three Lockwood sisters are still recovering from the events that led to the destruction of their family when they were children. Determined to move forward, Tess and Kate are making fresh starts, ready to put bad—even deadly—memories to rest and settle happily in the small but booming town. And they’re hoping their older sister, Charlene, can do the same.
Char is back in town seeking comfort as she figures out her next move. A social worker used to difficult situations, she soon runs afoul of some locals who think she’s sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. She’s certain something sinister is being covered up, and when she witnesses Matt Rowan being run off the road, she knows she’s right.
Working together, Matt and Char figure uncovering the truth will be dangerous, but living in Cold Creek won’t be safe for any of them until its secrets are revealed.
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell $ 2.99
From the Jacket Copy:
From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand.
On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history.
In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles—as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end.
Published to coincide with the battle’s bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy—and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.
At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane gets to be Queen of England.
Like that could go wrong
The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Inspector Harry Hole pursues an assassin bent on revenge in this installment of Jo Nesbø’s New York Times bestselling series. Look out for the latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, coming May 9, 2017.
Shots ring out at a Salvation Army Christmas concert in Oslo, leaving one of the singers dead in the street. The trail will lead Harry Hole, Oslo’s best investigator and worst civil servant, deep into the darkest corners of the city and, eventually, to Croatia.
An assassin forged in the war-torn region has been brought to Oslo to settle an old debt. As the police circle in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate and the danger mounts for Harry and his colleagues.
Huh. I don’t know what to make of the lighthearted Lady Jane Grey book. Does she not die in their version of history? I read a bio of her when I was in maybe junior high and it was pretty grim, iirc.
Riptide’s having a year end sale – selected titles are $2.99 – http://www.riptidepublishing.com/end-of-2016/299
I’m in the final chapters of My Lady Jane right now. It’s a YA fantasy re-imagining of the nine days reign of poor Queen Jane. Instead of a conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Tudor England, the schism is between shapeshifters and non-shifters. The first half of the book sort of vaguely follows established history, and then it goes off doing its own thing entirely. I love Tudor history, and imprinted on Lady Jane at an early age (that movie with young Cary Elwes and Helena Bonham Carter, how could I not?). It’s a fun little book, and well worth $2.
@Malin: Ah, I loved that movie, Lady Jane, as a teenager too. Cary Elwes was even more beautiful than Helena Bonham Carter. I have no idea if it holds up.
@Janine: Sadly for me it didn’t. I loved it when I first saw it but Bonham Carter’s performance came across as overwrought melodrama when I watched it again years later.