Have you discovered Kindle Singles: shorter length fiction, nonfiction, memoirs and reporting? Here are just a few of the bestselling titles readers are rating very highly.
Murder in the Yoga Store (nonfiction, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE is the true story of the brutal killing of a beautiful young woman at a chic Lululemon yoga-wear shop. The grisly murder was committed on a pleasant Friday night in upscale Bethesda, Maryland, a leafy suburb of Washington, D.C. In this riveting narrative by veteran journalist Peter Ross Range, the author for the first time brings together the tale of what really happened in the yoga store murder.
He portrays the personalities of both victim and murderer, along with the strange and convoluted circumstances of the crime and its cover-up. Range meticulously exposes layer upon layer of deceit and confusion. His account builds the tension of the police investigation until the real story, so odd and creepy, takes your breath away. The drama of the murder trial is a moving emotional roller coaster built around the prosecutors, the detectives and the family of the victim.
Peter Ross Range is a longtime Washington, D.C., magazine writer. A former White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and foreign correspondent for Time, Range has covered politics, international affairs and war. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and many other publications.
Mayflower: The Voyage From Hell (nonfiction, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
The writer Kevin Jackson looks at the reality behind the mythic status of the Mayflower – and the journey that ‘created’ the New World.
Most of the voyagers of that famed 1620 crossing of the Atlantic were not in fact religious pilgrims, but people intent on forging a better life for themselves in the virgin territory of America’s east coast.
130 hardy souls were confined in a space no bigger than a tennis court, braving the ‘Northern’ crossing, without any firm idea of what awaited them in the New World. A riveting account of the sailing that changed the world.
The Wanderer in Unknown Realms (fiction, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
“Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.”
Soter is a man who has been haunted by World War I. But when he’s sent to investigate the disappearance of Lionel Maudling, the owner of a grand country house whose heir may be accused for his death, he encounters a home that will lead him to nightmares he could have never imagined.
Maudling’s estate houses countless books of every sort—histories, dramas, scientific treatises. But none seems to offer Soter any hint to Maudling’s whereabouts, until he’s led to an arcane London bookseller where the reclusive scholar made his last purchase. What Soter finds at the end of a twisted maze of clues is a book like no other, with a legacy that will put everything he knows in danger…
An inventive horror novella from internationally bestselling author John Connolly, this is a story of madness, of obsession, and of books’ power to change the world.
On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier: An eShort Story (fiction, 5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
You can pick up this John Connolly short story for less than a dollar, and trust me, it’s well worth the money. As the title somewhat implies, the story opens as an examination of a painting entitled On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man, which depicts a man dissecting a corpse…or does it?
As the story unfolds, more and more details are brought to our attention, slowly changing the picture into something else entirely, and then the story itself begins to change as well. By its end, Connolly has created what feels like an old Edgar Allan Poe story in some ways, but he’s also created a nicely unsettling little tale that has a way of staying under your skin after you’re done with it.
– Amazon Reviewer Joshua Mauthe
A Face in the Crowd (fiction, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up.
Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate.
Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….
John McAfee’s Last Stand (nonfiction, 4/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
There was always something unusual about John McAfee. The tech entrepreneur made a fortune from the antivirus software that bears his name, but he also spent years as a cocaine addict, spiritual guru and yoga expert. In 2009, after losing millions in the stock market crash, he decided to retire to the tiny Central American nation of Belize. That’s when things really got weird. He started hanging out with killers, prostitutes, and pimps. He fell in love with a 17-year-old and surrounded his tropical compound with armed guards. In November 2012 his neighbor was found murdered. McAfee, who professed his innocence, fled the police and went into hiding.
WIRED’s Joshua Davis had months of exclusive access to McAfee before his disappearance and was virtually the only journalist McAfee had contact with when he went on the lam. In this fascinating profile, Davis takes readers into McAfee’s heart of darkness, a harrowing and jaw-dropping tale of ambition, paranoia, sex, and madness.
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