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Creatures of Dust    by Scott Hunter
Price: $0.99 USD. 79100 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural.

An undercover detective goes missing and the body of a young man is found mutilated in a shop doorway. Is there a connection? DCI Brendan Moran’s suspicions are aroused when a senior officer insists on handling the investigation himself. Moran finds himself coming back to the same question again and again: is he leading his team up a blind alley?
Woman at the Well    by Eunice Loecher
Price: $0.99 USD. 54350 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Zita Stillman’s New Year’s Eve celebration includes fireworks-- and a new murder. When her best friend, Zinnia Blossom Winwood becomes a suspect in the investigation, Zita’s normally trouble-free life develops overwhelming complications.
A Widow's Might    by Eunice Loecher
Price: $0.99 USD. 56550 words. Language: American English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Fred didn’t show for the fiesta lunch special on Wednesday at the Arbor Vale Café. Why not? He’d called to say he had something to tell her. So Zita Stillman drops by his house to hear him out. Fred had been such a good friend to her late husband. But Fred lies, lifeless, by the wood pile.
The Mindbender    by keith lawson
Price: $0.99 USD. 64340 words. Language: English. Published on May 9, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.

A lone gunman fires indiscriminately at customers in a café but his horrendous crime is only the beginning. Is he simply insane or could his mind be controlled by a strange and powerful unknown entity? Frank Harman, a career detective has faced petty criminals, vagrants, villains and murderers but this case takes him to a whole new and unexpected level.
Shadows of Morrow    by A.C. Haury
Price: Free! 80960 words. Language: English. Published on April 30, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

On the day Tristan Morrow is born her mother goes missing, prompting an investigation that produces no solid leads. Fast forward fifteen years, and the Morrow family still doesn’t know the truth behind Catherine Morrow’s disappearance. When 15 year old Tristan goes missing too, everyone is a suspect. Even her own father. Can the authorities crack the case before its too late?
Coming Clean in Lerpe    by R. Jimon
Price: $0.99 USD. 92190 words. Language: English. Published on April 28, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Becca Keck looks forward to starting her new job in her home office. But she finds it hard to concentrate on work when the clean freak who drove her nuts years ago moves into the luxurious villa across the street. After the senile owner of the villa is found dead on Becca's property, she takes matters into her own hands to prove that germs aren't the only things the clean freak knows how to kill.
Two For Justice    by K.J. Rivera
Price: Free! 77830 words. Language: English. Published on April 27, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Newlyweds Leah and Sebastian Reyes were broke and living with parents when a random encounter led them to pursue a career as private investigators. Thanks to a prominent judge business is good. Everything is derailed when a horrific discovery leads them to find out the truth about who is hiring them and why. Pushed to the limit they fight to find the truth, bring justice to light and stay alive.
The Tattered Thread    by B. A. Braxton
Price: Free! 70030 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural.

When all hope is gone and there’s nothing left to live for, suicide may be your only option. Tasia McAvoy knows this feeling all too well. Rich and beautiful, Tasia seems to have everything a person could ever want. But her deepest, darkest secrets are catching up with her, and she’s just too tired to run away from them anymore.
Tug River Murder    by James Knox
Price: Free! 52330 words. Language: English. Published on April 24, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical.

This is a fictional murder mystery set in 1897 at the site of the Hatfield & McCoy feud. Deputy Sheriff Richard James, a Canadian, finds himself having to juggle cultural differences, grief over the recent loss of his wife and son, and a murder investigation, after a McCoy is found dead from a snakebite. The death threatens to reignite the Hatfield/McCoy feud as Richard struggles to solve it.
Grannies Investigate The Tunnel of Death    by cliff mcgoon
Price: $0.99 USD. 59300 words. Language: American English. Published on April 20, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

The Grannies--Diane, Trixie and Cheryl--find themselves neck-deep in mayhem when Trixie's cousin, Joe, is accused of murdering his gypsy wife, Fatima. She is found dead in the churning surf below Joe's five-acre estate on beautiful Belvedere Island, just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. Wealthy and powerful residents are killing mad over Joe's idea to bore a fire tunnel under the island.