The Warning    by S.L. Pierce
Price: Free! 13210 words. Language: English. Published on April 5, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
Gwen Michaels moved to California to start a new life. But sometimes you just can't ignore when someone is in trouble. The Warning is a free short thriller (approx 2000 words) by S.L. Pierce.

Valentine in Paris    by James Davis
Price: Free! 13760 words. Language: English. Published by Wild Wolf Publishing  on November 24, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
A Nick Valentine short story. Disgraced Great War hero, Nick Valentine returns to France for the first time since the war on what should be a routine information gathering assignment in post-war Paris. But things are never that simple. Not for Nick Valentine. Nick Valentine is the flawed hero of the full length novel, Noho. This short story includes an opening excerpt from Noho.

Cherry Bucket & Other Stories    by Robert Hart
Price: Free! 29210 words. Language: English. Published on July 26, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A meticulously restored '69 Camaro is 'detailed' by a kid whose skull is held together by Super-Glue and wishful thinking. An insurance salesman has three too many. Everyone's favorite TV star steps in to save the day, mostly for himself. Teenage revenge, cannibal grannies, giant snakes, and vigilante clowns are just a few of the themes explored in these stories. Tales of Crime and Weirdness.

Sins of a Nation    by Don McGraw
You set the price! 92410 words. Language: English. Published on November 10, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
The presidential race is deadlocked--until murder tips the scale. Now Janelle Harcourt, an ambitious young attorney, finds evidence connecting the Presidential front-runner to the crime. Determined to bring justice,she embarks on a twisting trail of discovery that leads to three of the nation’s most powerful political figures. A trio intent on keeping her silent by whatever means possible.

After The Facts    by Vincent M. Lutterbie
Price: Free! 98310 words. Language: English. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on November 10, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The town of Hustle has a new private eye, and his name is After Coffman. His first case and After is finding it anything but business as usual. He has no client, no money and too many suspects. In line for After's scalp are drug lords, gun runners and the Hustle Homicide Department. Each want a piece of him, but After's greatest foe may be an old black cat, named Soot.

Bone Machines    by John Dodds
You set the price! 91370 words. Language: English. Published by Just Imagine It Ink  on March 11, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(4.90 from 10 reviews)
They suffer for his art... When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the spectre of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rears its head. Journalist Ray Bissett is drawn into the case when his daughter joins the ranks of the missing. And ambitious police detective Tom Kendrick won't let Ray forget a terrible incident from his past.

The Value of Life    by Andy Crowson
Price: Free! 57970 words. Language: English. Published on January 10, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(4.74 from 19 reviews)
A 12 y/o boy is kidnapped - but the ransom price is left to his parents! Before he is returned (safely) another boy is taken. Then another. Rookie detective Joseph Lindahl is a psychology graduate and thinks he knows what the kidnapper wants - but colleagues are sceptical. The solution might please the press and embarrass a judge, but it it gets Joseph into trouble at Longmarsh Police HQ

One of the Boys    by Kimberly Pauley
Price: Free! 2440 words. Language: English. Published on June 9, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.
(4.60 from 5 reviews)
Riley fancies himself a gangster even though he only works in the "back office" for a local mobster. When a chance comes to prove himself, will he become one of the boys?

The Accidental Existentialist    by Joshua Graham
Price: Free! 13770 words. Language: English. Published by Dawn Treader Press on August 16, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(4.55 from 20 reviews)
US Marine Corps Criminal Investigations Division agent stages his death to go dark and take on the head of a Russian Crime Syndicate, perpetrators of illegal arms dealing, human trafficking and the death of his first born son. Action-packed and filled with more twists than the Coney Island Cyclone, this story asks: How far would a good man go to rid the world of evil and avenge his son?

My Last Bullet    by Robert Hart
Price: Free! 23620 words. Language: English. Published on July 25, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(4.50 from 4 reviews)
Johnny Gage is released from Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary after serving a sentence he didn't owe. He's got to make it back to Philadelphia and settle Chubby's hash before Chubby has him killed. Gage wants his revenge, with interest, and nothing Chubby throws at him is going to stop him. It's non-stop action, mayhem, destruction and a double figure body-count in this thin slice of Classic Pulp.