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Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Vanessa March’s husband Lewis is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm – so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries… and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School.
The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black. As the stallion rose in the last magnificent rear of the levande, the moonlight poured over him bleaching his hide so that for perhaps five or six seconds he was no longer an old broken-down piebald, but a haute école stallion of the oldest line in Europe.
The Inheritance by Rochelle Alers $ 2.99
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Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself returning to New Orleans to retire—just not yet. But after her Manhattan company abruptly lays off its staff, there’s no better place to figure out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
Nestled in the stunning Garden District, the DuPont House has been in Hannah’s family for two centuries. With its eighteen rooms and two guesthouses, it’s far more home than widowed Hannah needs. Still, it could make a wonderful inn, especially if she can convince her friends and former coworkers Tonya, Jasmine, and Nydia to join in the venture. But in the meantime, Hannah has a high school reunion to attend…
College Professor St. John McNair, Hannah’s one-time classmate, is still the finest guy in any room. Between Hannah’s willowy, blonde beauty, and his uncanny resemblance to Marvin Gaye, they make a striking pair. And gradually, their rekindled friendship moves toward romance. Still, Hannah is too bruised by her late husband’s infidelities to trust a man again. But her friends’ arrival and encouragement just might show her a path through uncertainty—straight to a vibrant, joyful new life…
Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken $ 1.99
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It’s not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear–a lot–or else salute. It’s true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother’s soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.
Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly, and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe–a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fills her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn’t get any stranger.
She’s wrong. . .
And just wait until you meet the rest of the family. . .
Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
“Audacious and amusing . . . may be the best book yet in this deservedly celebrated series.”—The Wall Street Journal
It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary—invariably dramatic—discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go about finding the killer who stabbed Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three women—a housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute—are playing out a drama that has long been unfolding. It will take much brain work, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure’s death and the daughters of Cain. . . .
EEEE. That was me being happy because I always love when you are doing deals ( I love Jane’s too hehe). I actually meant to ask you may as well ask you here about Morse novels. Are they good? I only have three episodes left to watch and I am not sure if I will be watching the last one, so I was thinking about it. I mean I am guessing they are since the show was so good, but it is possible that the show became better than the source so wanted to ask first. Thanks.
Thank you Sunita for picking up the baton. Dear Author’s Daily Sales feature has served as a bit of online sunshine since I discovered the blog. Seeing it here today after having girded up to do without is like finding a twenty dollar bill in an old coat pocket.
Good books on offer, too. Mary Stewart has been a favorite of mine since teen years. I saw that there are a whole slew of her novels on sale at Amazon, though I think there may be a mix-up in the link you have posted.
Dragon Actually is one of my favorite paranormal stories. I experience the whole dragons thing as a storybook approach to the Transformers, (although robots just don’t have the same quirky appeal). The characters are huge, physics is out the window the women are as audacious as hell. It’s not for the faint of heart though, as the Dragon Actually heroine is especially fierce and takes no prisoners.
Your Amazon link for Airs Above the Ground took me to a totally different book. I think the ASIN in the link is wrong and should be ASIN: B004XCFR40. Unfortunately the iBooks price has not yet been matched by Amazon but no doubt this will filter through eventually (and I’ve just realised that this does not matter to me anyway as I bought the book back in 2015).
@Sirius: The Inspector Lewis TV series is also a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed the chemistry of Morse’s former sidekick, played by Kevin Whately as he takes on the lead, and his partner Inspector Hathaway, played by Laurence Fox.
Yay! So good to see you here, Sunita! :)
@Mzcue: Absolutely I actually watched “Inspector Lewis” before I started Morse :)
Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome!
And so sorry about the wrong ASIN on the Mary Stewart; I’ve fixed it now and it should work (let me know if it doesn’t). When I clicked on the iBooks link it was 0.99 this time, but I don’t use iTunes so I’m not sure if that is correct. When I was checking it I got both the regular and sale prices; very weird. I always make mistakes when I do the Deals for the first few times, so please let me know when you see mistakes! I really appreciate it.
Sirius, I think the books are as good as the TV series, but they’re different. Morse, especially in the earlier novels, is not the same character as he is when portrayed by John Thaw. However, Dexter himself said *his* Morse became more like Thaw because the latter captured Morse so well, so I think by this installment they should be quite similar.
I love all three Morse shows so much. I didn’t think I’d warm up to Endeavour but of course I did, and npt just because of Roger Allam. And I’ve always liked Lewis/Kevin Whately a great deal.
Yay, I didn’t have that Mary Stewart in digital yet. Thanks!
VANISHING ACT by Thomas Perry is 1.99 at Amazon today. I read and loved this series about Jane Whitefield, a Native American woman and guide who helps people disappear. Jane is fascinating, and way back in 1995, she was capable and talented in a manner we hadn’t seen much before. I don’t know if the books hold up today, but they were great then.
Oh, AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND. I still remember reading the scene when that old piebald heard the organ music and improbably made that signature, impossible leap. My heart went right along with him, and then he returned to quietly eating whatever was in front of him.
If what we remember most is how something made us feel, Mary Stewart had to be the pinnacle of that. Fifty years later, I remember so much. The mental health calendar for today tells us to re-read a favorite book. I may have to do that. Thanks for the reminder.
@Kris Bock: You’re most welcome!
@Darlynne: Thanks for the deal, Darlynne!
Hi Sunita! *waves*
Thanks for filling in on the deals. It was an unexpected treat!
@Kaetrin: Kaetrin! *waves back*
@Susan: For me too. They give shape to my early summer. Who knew?
Hello, Sunita. Thanks for the deals. It’s nice to be reminded of my Mary Stewart years.
You may be an outlier with respect to dragons, but you aren’t alone. The novels I read (primarily mystery & romance) require suspension of belief, but suspending all the way to dragons is beyond my mental faculties.
@LML: Isn’t it funny where our personal lines are? I swallow all kinds of unbelievable characters in SF and Fantasy, but in romance I like my characters mostly human. But I’ll accept vampires. Go figure.
@Sunita, sometimes – especially when I read a sparkling review – I wonder about the good stories I miss by not reading SF or Fantasy, but since there isn’t time in the world to read all of the books I want to read, I let that wonder float away.
@LML: I love the fantasy genre, but I think we all have to go with what we know our preferences to be. For example, I don’t enjoy being scared, so I stay away from horror.
@Sunita: Sadly the Mary Stewart wasn’t on special for me (geo restrictions suck!).
When we were in the UK in 2016 we went to Oxford for a day and saw Endeavour (the Morse prequel) being filmed. Hubs is a big fan of the whole shebang so he was fanboying massively!