Wild Retribution    by Norman Price
Price: Free! 5620 words. Language: British English. Published on March 9, 2013. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller.
A harrowing short story of child abduction and violent rough justice in the United Kingdom County of Essex.

Shooters Unidentified    by Christopher Amati
Price: $0.99 USD. 15940 words. Language: English. Published on March 8, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
Shooters Unidentified is a collection of short stories, poetry and photographs about the darker side of life in the metropolitan Chicago area. Featuring the exploits of Len Staywicki, Rocco Dannon and Wladyslaw "Woody" Brouszko, the stories exhibit a free-wheeling approach to life, the law and the shady characters our heroes seem to meet at every turn in the Windy City.

Maxwell Marlowe, Private Eye...The Case of the Missing Stamp and Coin Collections    by Raymond Boyd Dunn
Price: $0.99 USD. 13280 words. Language: English. Published on March 6, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
Max is set the task of solving the puzzle of a missing stamp album and a tin of valuable coins, a portion of a deceased estate. He has no clues, and no-one has actually seen the contents of the missing items. He also has some decisions to make regarding his love life. Read how the problems are resolved.

Seller's Market: A Crime Story    by C. C. Blake
Price: $2.99 USD. 3840 words. Language: English. Published by Twice Told Tales  on March 3, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
Sometimes, crime and damnation walk hand in hand . . . When a father discovers his infant daughter has been sold to a drug dealer, he hacks a way through the Detroit underworld to find her. Suspense master C. C. Blake explores every parent's worst nightmare in this thrilling crime story.

Dirty: A Hardboiled Nightmare    by C. C. Blake
Price: $2.99 USD. 5010 words. Language: English. Published by Twice Told Tales  on March 3, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
Sy Mooney is not a cop, anymore. He does dirty work for cash. His latest job: find the hooker blackmailing a rich maniac. With the odds stacked against him, Sy will need every weapon in his arsenal to get out of this with his carcass intact. Thrill master C. C. Blake spins a brutal yarn about bad guys and badder ones. Echoing Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, "Dirty" is a hardboiled nightmare.

Wayne and Bean    by C. C. Blake
Price: $2.99 USD. 4710 words. Language: English. Published by Twice Told Tales  on March 2, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
Violation. Assault. Murder. The men and women who take up the badge are supposed to protect society from these terrible crimes. However, police officers are as human and fallible as anyone . . . C. C. Blake explores an unspeakable crime that pits two cops against one another in this explosive story.

Death Fits Like A Glove    by Don Weston
Price: $0.99 USD. 11840 words. Language: English. Published on February 28, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
Someone is stealing pets in P.I. Billie Bly's Northwest Portland neighborhood and one of her critical neighbors begs her to find her lost dog. A young boy with unruly red hair adopts her and asks to help solve her case. But he displays some disturbing behaviors and may be more hindrance than help. And when she gets wind of something bigger, a sinister figure plans to put an end to Billie Bly.

The Painted Killer    by Zachary Neal
Price: $1.99 USD. 17710 words. Language: English. Published on February 22, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
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A sex-crazed psychedelic slasher targets women and girls. He's got a knife. It's 1969 in middle America and nothing is the same anymore. Detective Al Gaetano and his team must find the killer before he strikes again. Their only clues are a few flakes of paint from his body and a modus operandi. A dark and funny novella.

Rum and Roses    by Tyson Adams
Price: $0.99 USD. 2330 words. Language: English. Published on February 14, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.
The police don't like 'Skinny' McAfree, but they do like him for the disappearance and possible murder of his next door neighbour.

Pummerin    by T. A. Welte
Price: Free! 7860 words. Language: German. Published on February 6, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.
Pummerin ist eine kurze Vorgeschichte zu Der gläserne Diamant. Steiners Bruder hat sich beim fetten Kurti hoch verschuldet. Dieser taucht plötzlich bei Steiner auf und fordert sein Geld ein. Er zwingt ihn dazu, bei einem Pokerturnier teilzunehmen. Der Einsatz: sein gesamtes Erspartes. Steiner gewinnt, geht aber leer aus, da nicht nur einer in der Runde nicht verlieren kann.