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Caroline    by David P Elliot
Price: $1.99 USD. 9390 words. Language: English. Published on September 12, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A prominent local businessman walks into a police station suffering from an apparent breakdown and confesses to murder. A body is found triggering a murder investigation that seems an open and shut case - until Caroline tells her story. A short story.One of six short stories also published in an anthology by the author under the title 'Pieces of Fate'.
A Winters Heart    by Devlin Church
Price: $1.49 USD. 2080 words. Language: English. Published by Glair Publishing  on April 17, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A woman's heart grows cold toward her husband and uses circumstance to justify the means.
The Monk and the Prostitute    by Robert Jaunsen
Price: $0.99 USD. 3050 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A young monk falls in love with a prostitute. They make plans to escape to a better life until she is murdered for her body's organs. "Life Ain't Fair" could have been an alternative title.
FlashTyme: Five Flash Fiction Stories, Volume 1, Gimme the Creeps    by M. J. Joachim
Price: $1.99 USD. 1230 words. Language: English. Published on June 26, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
The psychological twists and turns of M. J. Joachim's Gimme the Creeps, nano flash fiction stories, will send shivers up your spine and make your hair stand on end. The dramatic intensity M. J.'s FlashTyme series gives you, presents a fast-paced, riveting adventure in record time.
Sinkhole: A Short Story    by John Brinling
Price: $0.99 USD. 9900 words. Language: English. Published on August 14, 2011. Fiction » Drama » American.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
How devastating is a sinkhole? How tragic is it when it occurs in the bedroom of a small house? How much worse is it when the sinkhole begins talking to the young woman it has thrown out of bed about a child’s murder? And how unwise is it for the young woman to climb down into that sinkhole?
Bloody Coincidence    by Susan Hern
Price: Free! 3240 words. Language: English. Published on October 17, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Ghost story. New job, new life. Darren is full of hope, but what he doesn't plan on, is the audacity of a young woman who smashes her car into a tree, right in front of him, damn.
Trapped    by Kris Shamloo
Price: Free! 1140 words. Language: English. Published on October 20, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A short story about a man trapped in a strange prison.
Snow Slayer    by Denise M. Hartman
Price: $0.99 USD. 3080 words. Language: English. Published on December 8, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Sherm likes watching people until it snows. Then the police get to witness one of Sherm's events. When it snows, people open up the door to strangers who are stuck out in the cold.
The Garden    by Tyra Masters-Heinrichs
Price: $0.99 USD. 3220 words. Language: English. Published on January 29, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Kim dreamed of an idyllic life in the country, but the reality is rapidly becoming a nightmare.
The Charity Shop    by Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen
Price: $0.99 USD. 4630 words. Language: English. Published on February 9, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A humorous short story of crime and suspense, featuring Constable Penrose and Rhapsody Gershwin. Set in a fictional Yorkshire village. C 4,000 words. By the writer of the bestselling ghost story "Heather Farm".