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Broken Dreams    by Lisa Gaines
Price: $0.99 USD. 5290 words. Language: English. Published by Eye of the Eagle  on July 24, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

“…found a woman curled up in the overstuffed recliner parked outside my office door, I was blind sided. Not because I didn’t recognize her. Because I didn’t smell the trouble. Smelled cinnamon and spice and something I couldn’t quite identify trying to take over the stale office air, but I didn’t smell trouble.…”
Death by Clown    by R.G. Crossley
Price: $2.99 USD. 11950 words. Language: English. Published by 53rd Street Publishing  on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

A clown cookie jar used as a murder weapon. A crime scene where the unexpected becomes normal. A story of family, betrayal, and broken promises where all is not what it seems. A new Razor and Edge mystery. They solve crime so you don't have to. Includes the bonus story, A Day Without Sunshine.
Stonewalled    by Todd Howard
Price: $1.99 USD. 97990 words. Language: English. Published on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Phillip “Stonewall” Jackson’s life has been torn apart by the death of his wife and child. Desperate to escape the pain he decides to leave town. On the road his dead wife’s GPS begins to give strange directions and he soon finds himself battling a biker gang, and trying to save the life of a teenage girl.
Long Shots (mystery short stories)    by Tim Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 9890 words. Language: English. Published on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

Three short mystery stories from Agatha Award Nominated Author Tim Myers!
Switch - Book One of the Janek Series    by William Bayer
Price: $2.99 USD. 95150 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

Detective Frank Janek immediately knows that he has entered the realm of a lethal madness. Middle-aged, divorced, a man centered solely on his work, Janek is practiced in piercing the minds of the criminals he pursues. In the absence of clues from the killer, he has only the awful symmetry of the crime to work with, only his own finely honed intuition.
Walk. Trot. Die    by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Price: $2.99 USD. 51610 words. Language: English. Published by San Marco Press  on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

The Atlanta detective team of Burton & Kazmaroff head to the sleazy and closed equestrienne community to investigate the murder of a woman who had no lack of people who might qualify as her murderer. Set in Atlanta in the advertising and equestrienne worlds, Walk,Trot, Die gallops to the shocking ending no one sees coming!
Naming The Moon    by Joseph Valentinetti
Price: $2.99 USD. 19870 words. Language: English. Published on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

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Pauly Macy came to California, with Jilly, to buy a house and settled down. But settling down didn’t work for Jilly. Jilly was gone and here he was, in a California backwater,
The Baby Quilt    by Mary Jane Forbes
Price: $2.99 USD. 59600 words. Language: English. Published on July 23, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

MELANIE BECKETT has a fear of being abandoned—her mother was killed by a hit-and-run driver and her father disappeared the same day. She befriends a doctor, Mitch O’Reilly. She learns he carries a secret that haunts him as well. Does the baby quilt provide a vital clue in her search for her father? And will she and the doctor allow love to enter their hearts?
The Toast of Broadway    by Ian MacGregger
Price: $2.99 USD. 68880 words. Language: English. Published on July 22, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

What begins as a series of bizarre murders in the theater district of Manhattan, quickly develops into a global struggle against an international criminal cabal. Anna engages a criminal mastermind in a chess game where real pieces are slaughtered. Fortunes are lost and gained. The stakes are high, the chess board global, the weapons varied but the end game objective is the same - total victory.
The Retreat    by T.K. Murphy
Price: $0.99 USD. 53920 words. Language: English. Published by KAI Publishing  on July 22, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

The continuing adventures of Bob the serial killer. A terrible accident pushes him even further away from reality and he roams the country, spilling blood. He heads back to CA and meets a strange group of people who look like they are running a retreat. Bob stays there and discovers terrible things going on there. Unable to flee, bloodshed follows. Who makes it out unscathed?