Expired Kindle Books

stevedan · 26 November 2013 at 12:05PM

The Fight Before Christmas by Frankie McGowan is free on Kindle today.

Claire Simons is desperate to host a normal family Christmas.

The trouble is, she just doesn't have a normal family.

After fifteen years of marriage, her husband Gregg walked out on her for Verity, an ambitious, young woman who wears startlingly short skirts.

When her daughter Sadie throws a classic pre-teen strop about not being able see her father on Christmas Day, Claire decides she may have to put the past behind her - and resolves they must all spend the day together as a family.

After blaming herself for months for stifling Gregg's free-spirit, and pushing him away, Claire decides she ready to face him and let go of her pain and anger.

But when Robert Carrington, a new manager at her work, comes to her rescue when Sadie goes missing, Claire starts to wonder if she's ready to let a new relationship into her life.

Very soon, the guest list for Claire's Christmas is getting longer and longer - and more and more complicated.

Can she keep the peace for just one day?

Will she discover that Christmas can be a time of new love and and new beginnings?

Or will it all end in a huge Fight Before Christmas?

'The Fight Before Christmas' is a festive family drama about love, sacrifices and fractured families.

Praise for Frankie McGowan:

'A heartfelt story, in Ellie, McGowan has all the elements right. Thrills, intrigue, a rattling plot, and a glorious helping of happily ever after romance.' Midweek

'Compulsively readable, witty and astute.' - The Yorkshire Post.

'A diverting, fast moving and at times, a heartbreaking story. Take it on holiday.' Home and Life

'Dazzlingly wealthy, hopelessly immoral, a perceptive look at a family at war' - Woman and Home

'Written with a verve and pace, that keeps you reading' - Good Housekeeping

Meadows · 27 November 2013 at 7:49AM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Even-More-Ketchup-than-Salsa-ebook/dp/B00GDOZY4Y/
Even More Ketchup than Salsa: The Final Dollop - 259 pages
Sequel to the award-winning More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman

A must-read reality check for anybody who has ever pondered a move to sunnier climes.

If the first six months of running the Smugglers Tavern had been a baptism of fire, the subsequent years were about as much fun as bobbing for apples in a vat of acid.
Having swapped the tin roof of a cold British fish market for the sunny skies of a Spanish holiday island, Joe and Joy succeeded in thwarting the first wave of attacks from bungling bureaucrats, bewildered holidaymakers and their own spectacular ineptitude. What they didn’t realise was that their enemies were regrouping. Not only that, but those enemies had made camp a lot closer to home, enemies that would make their encounters with the exploding gas bottles, East European squatters and big-time Charlies featured in More Ketchup than Salsa seem like chapters from Enid Blyton.

The trials and tribulations of attempting to make a better life abroad continue... with disastrous consequences.

What they said about More Ketchup than Salsa:

"Fantastic, hilarious, painful. Completely un-put-downable.”
"Brilliant book... very funny..."
"If you buy one book this year, get this..."

stevedan · 27 November 2013 at 11:50AM

The Liquidator by John Gardner is free today on Kindle.

Paris, 1944.

As the city is liberated, Sergeant Boysie Oaks kills two Germans attempting to assassinate an Intelligence Corps officer named Mostyn.

Two decades later, the suave, sadistic Mostyn has become the Second-in-Command of British Special Security.

He recruits the man he believes is a master assassin -- Boysie Oakes -- to quietly murder potential security risks.

He is 'The Liquidator'.

But is Boysie the right man for the job?

He is preparing to take Mostyn's secretary to the Cote D'Azur for a weekend of romance.

Yet what starts as a few days of seduction in the Mediterranean sun turns into a nightmare for Boysie as he becomes more and more embroiled in Operation Coronet.

Captured, the tables are turned, and the assassin becomes the target.

Boysie Oakes will need all his wits to stay alive.

'The Liquidator' is the first in the series of highly acclaimed comic novels featuring cowardly secret agent, Boysie Oakes. It was made into a film in 1965 staring Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard. It is perfect for fans of classic British spy fiction, including Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and Desmond Bagley.

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960’s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.

'Cool polished story-telling with all the sexy sidelines in the best James Bond tradition' Evening Standard

PinholeCamera · 27 November 2013 at 12:19PM

smashwords.com/books/view/340233

A young woman who talks to the dead; a gargantuan fortune teller; a tidal wave; a festival of the dead; and a dentist who plays chess for teeth: odd fellows and the unbelievable meet head-on in this darkly humorous and passionate grown-up fairytale. By turns funny, poetic, macabre - and utterly fantastical.

Use code RD54T at the checkout to download for free (various formats).

fatboy77 · 27 November 2013 at 12:54PM

Happy Birthday to Me

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Happy-Birthday-Me-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B004VF69C8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1385553198&sr=1-1&keywords=happy+birthday+to+me

Seventeen-year-old Cameron Martin has a huge problem: he's aging a whole year of his life with each passing day!

High school is hard enough; imagine rapidly aging from seventeen to seventy in a matter of weeks, with no logical explanation, and with prom, graduation, and the state championship basketball game on the horizon. That's what happens to Cameron, a popular pretty boy who's never had to face a day looking anything but perfect.

All Cameron wants to do is go back to normal, but no one, not even the best doctors, can diagnose his condition. When he finds love with a mysterious young woman, however, he realizes his only hope for survival might be with the one person who started his condition in the first place.

Meadows · 28 November 2013 at 7:16AM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pentecost-An-ARKANE-Thriller-Book-ebook/dp/B004JHYA6A/
Pentecost. An ARKANE Thriller - 294 pages
A power kept secret for 2000 years. A woman who stands to lose everything.
India. When a nun is burned alive on the sacred ghats of Varanasi, and the stone she carried is stolen, an international hunt is triggered for the relics of the early church.
Forged in the fire and blood of martyrs, the Pentecost stones have been handed down through generations of Keepers who kept their power and locations secret.
Until now. The Keepers are being murdered, the stones stolen by those who would use them for evil in a world transformed by religious fundamentalism.
Oxford University psychologist Morgan Sierra is forced into the search when her sister and niece are held hostage. She is helped by Jake Timber from the mysterious ARKANE, a British government agency specializing in paranormal and religious experience. Morgan must risk her own life to save her family, but will she ultimately be betrayed?
From ancient Christian sites in Spain, Italy and Israel to the far reaches of Iran and Tunisia, Morgan and Jake must track down the stones through the myths of the early church in a race against time before a new Pentecost is summoned, this time powered by the fires of evil.

The first in the ARKANE series, PENTECOST is a fast-paced thriller that explores the edges of faith against a backdrop of early Christian history, archaeology and psychology.

Meadows · 28 November 2013 at 7:18AM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruel-Justice-Book-1-ebook/dp/B005QOY4FM/
Cruel Justice - 364 pages
The headless body of a wealthy widow is discovered
decomposing in Chelling Forest. Then a second victim is found. Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins and her partner, DS Pete Childs are assigned the case.
Before they can discover the identity of the killer they must make a connection between the two victims.
After a third murder, Lorne receives a grisly surprise. Clearly, a vicious serial killer is on a rampage...and Lorne has become the killer's fixation.
Lorne can't allow her failing marriage or her new boss--a man with whom she shares a sensuous secret--keep her from focusing on her job. She must catch the macabre murderer, or risk becoming the next victim.

KittyMay · 28 November 2013 at 2:20PM

Here's a cool one called Hymn From A Village. It's free today, for sure. I can't link as I'm new, but hey. It says,

"Praise for his work and, indeed, for some of the stories collected here includes:

'A tremendous writer.' Donald Ray Pollock (The Devil All The Time)

'A rare talent.' Allan Guthrie (Bye Bye Baby)

‘I was surprised by every story. These are short, punchy, thoughtful, hard as a punch, but sometimes they dig in and squeeze. It's dirty stuff, done beautifully.” Anthony Neil Smith (Yellow Medicine, Psychosomatic, Hogdoggin')

'It won't take long to realise he is also one of the best writers out there on the noir scene' Ian Ayris (Abide With Me)

‘So nice to read a story with this much heart in it.’ Patti Abbott (Discount Noir, Monkey Justice)

‘Great Stuff.’ Charlie Stella (Charlie Opera, Johnny Porno)

‘Brilliantly razor-sharp, jagged slice of life.’ Paul D Brazill (Guns Of Brixton, Roman Dalton)

‘I sought out everything I could from him. I dare you to read and not do the same.’ Chris F Holm (8 Pounds)

‘Took my breath away...Powerful.’ Kathleen A Ryan (Playing With Matches, Women Of Mystery)

‘Nigel Bird continues to amaze,’ Naomi Johnson (The Drowning Machine)

‘Nigel Bird screamed onto the crime scene with his story "Beat on the Brat," winner of last year's Watery Grave International competition. And with good reason. It's a sharply written tale about the cost of loyalty.’ Chris Rhatigan (Watch You Drown)

‘Grim, but really good.’ Ian Rankin (Inspector Rebus)"