Lawyers, Guns and Money for Kindle
And for other formats (new ones being added)
Andy Cole, small town criminal lawyer and general go-along guy, has built a successful practice defending criminal offenders - and making sure he is paid in advance. But this easy, lucrative professional life changes forever when Danny Fairgreen, the white sheep of the notorious Fairgreen clan, is arrested for murdering a barmaid, and Andy agrees to represent him--for a price.
But an unknown someone wants Danny convicted -- bad -- and starts putting the screws to Andy. At first, the pressure is subtle, but it grows ever more ever more intense until Andy is faced with an unspeakable choice: Go along once again and send an innocent man to death row, or step up to the plate and risk losing everything--including his own life and the life of the woman he loves.
Done. It's queued up behind a couple of other books, but I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened here dovetails with a comment I made to your Murderati post today, about why I won;t miss Borders, though I'll feel for those who lost their jobs. I just got a quality product at a great price without having to stand up and it was delivered in less time than it took me to get back here and open the comments page. Borders never could match that, but they had the whole browsing the bookstore experience going for them and pissed it away.
Thank you, Dana! Let me know how you like it.
ReplyDeleteI just got a quality product at a great price without having to stand up and it was delivered in less time than it took me to get back here and open the comments page.
As Dana mentions, I talk about this factor in my post over at Murderati today:
http://www.murderati.com/blog/2011/2/23/diversify.html
they had the whole browsing the bookstore experience going for them and pissed it away.
How did they piss it away in YOUR opinion?
"How did they piss it away in YOUR opinion?"
ReplyDeleteThe staff was less than knowledgeable. In a store the size of Borders, I don't expect everyone to have the same level of knowledge I would from a small indy, and I never minded using the computer to see if a book was in stock, or where it might be. But when I ask where a section of the store is, they should know, and, preferably, at least offer to take me there, not wave vaguely and say, "It's over there somewhere."
Worse than that is the selection of books. Every good-selling hack in the world, multiple copies, made to order for the person who's looking for a book to buy for a gift and saw an ad or brief review in the local paper, which generally includes the same few dozen writers. Nothing--and I do mean nothing--serious readers of crime would read. For me personally, the last time I went in to burn a gift card at Borders, I brought my Amazon Wish List with me. Christa Faust, John McFetridge, Declan Hughes, Tim Hallinan, Sean Chercover, Scott Phillips. Nada. Yes, they had Lehane, Leonard, Lippman, Crais, John Connolly, all of whom I like, but rarely anything of theirs I hadn't read. I settled for dropping the entire gift care on THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, which I thought sucked.
It's a shame, because there was a time in the not too distant past when I looked for excuses to go to Borders, and would use it as a place to kill time while my daughter went to the movies with friends. Now she's grown, and I'll kill my time at a library, or a McDonald's with my Kindle.
Got mine! Something to read while I ride out the aftershocks... :)
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're okay, Steve. And thanks!
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