What All The Cool Kids Are Reading (And Me)

Oh, e-books, you are truly addicting.

Not only do I now have to contend with new releases in print, but now I've got all these great writers releasing their wares independently.

Not that I'm complaining, folks, there just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to read it all.

And not like most of you don't already have a mile high TBR stack, but I wanted to pass along a few recommendations of a few ebooks
that I picked up recently

I discovered the fiction of Barry Graham through the Patrick Millikin edited Phoenix Noir. (Akashic Publishing) Graham writes tough, unsentimental, character driven crime fiction and recently Graham has been dipping his toes into the e-publishing world by releasing his novel How Do You Like Your Blue Eyed Boy and short story collection Scumbo out into the world. Well on Tuesday he re-released his first novel, The Book Of Man.

Here's The Skinny:

Researching a television project about his former friend and writer Mike
Illingworth, London-based playwright and performance artist Kevin Previn returns
to Glasgow, where his abusive childhood and subsequent years of decadence flood
his memory. The recent death of Illingworth, a junkie and a victim of AIDS,
leaves a hole in Kevin's life and prompts numerous questions about his own
drug-filled, promiscuous past as well as his lost hope, love, and sense of
identity. Graham deftly portrays a decaying city and culture. This is a bleak
present filled with postpunk notions: cocaine and heroin addiction, welfare
living, alcoholism, and general apathy. Graham's words are raw and gritty, and
his observations unrelenting and brutally honest. Though this may be considered
counterculture to some, The Book of Man is sadly real and deeply poignant. It is
a book about strange friendship, youthful freedoms, perpetuated cycles of abuse,
and the ripples of violence flowing through every level of society. Moreover,
this book is about identifying our demons and accepting what role we play in
their creation

The Book Of Man is available on Amazon Kindle for .99 cents for a limited time right HERE.

As most of you know, I'm a pretty big fan of Dave White around these parts and on Tuesday as well, the scariest public school teacher in New Jersey released his second e-book only release (After of the phenomenal short story collection More Sinned Against) Witness To Death. I was luck enough to get to read an earlier draft of WIT, so let me tell you, for thriller fans, this is a seriously tough as nails read.

Here's the lowdown:

John Brighton is an ordinary young schoolteacher still hung up on his ex,
Michelle. Suspecting her new boyfriend is cheating on her, John decides to
follow Frank's Lexus and find out the truth once and for all. Turns out John's
in for a major surprise. Frank isn't heading for some sack time with another
girl. Instead he drags John into the middle of a shootout on the banks of the
Hudson River, and before John knows what's happening, he's knee-deep in bodies.

Before the corpses can even cool, Frank disappears and John finds
himself wanted for five murders. With no way to prove his innocence, John goes
on the run-not only from the police, but a vicious assassin as well. And when
Michelle is kidnapped, John's worst-case scenario comes true. Though his head
tells him to stay in hiding, his heart says otherwise. He has to save the woman
he loves or die trying.

As John begins to uncover the truth surrounding
the events that have turned his life upside down, he learns it isn't just
Michelle he must rescue. Thousands of other innocent lives are in jeopardy too.

A heart-pounding, heart-stopping, heart-breaking thriller from two-time
Shamus Award nominated author, Dave White. For fans of Harlan Coben, Thomas
Perry and Jeff Abbott

It's a Hell of a read and is available for .99 cents right HERE

My current e-book read is on a favorite subject of mine:

The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse.
Yeah, I love me some undead cannibals.
What's most interesting about this story is that the grisly end of human existence seen from the perspective of a dog.

Here's more info on A Prarie Home Apocalypse, or What The Dog Saw By Albert Berg:

The dog did not understand when his people left him behind in the cold and the
rain. He did not understand when the sound of gunshots echoed through the air.
And he did not understand when the things came into his yard. Things that moved
and moaned, and smelled very very dead.

With all he has ever known in
tatters the dog is forced to forge ahead into an uncertain world where the
dead-things roam and danger lurks at every turn. All he has to his credit is a
keen nose and an unswerving devotion to the girl who rescued him.
Together
these two innocents will risk everything for each other in a world where evil
reigns supreme.

You can snap up Berg's little slice of Hell for a measly $2.99 right HERE