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Zombie P.I. (short story)    by Tim Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 5130 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

5,000 word Short Story! Welcome to Dead Town, the only place on earth where zombies are welcome. They think, talk, and crave human flesh. When a man is lost there, his sister hires the only P.I. who can help her, a zombie named Trask. As he searches for the missing man, Trask is forced to do things that frighten even the undead!
The Corner of Your Eye    by Geltab
Price: $0.99 USD. 4070 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

Follow Sam on his journey from normalcy into madness. Can he discover the identity of the mythical killer of the woods? Can he trust his friends and family to help? There must be an answer to these strange events and stories, and Sam will uncover them or die trying.
Tiger's Blood    by Thaddeus Burr
Price: $0.99 USD. 7760 words. Language: English. Published by Worgital Books  on May 20, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

Michael Stevens is a veteran of Iraqi freedom. A bomb strapped to a boy ended his career, and left him with a strange ability that he doesn’t completely understand, but is driven to follow. A string of murders sets in motion an investigation by detectives Burns, and Moretti. What they find could change everything.
Virgin Heat    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 74970 words. Language: English. Agented by SKLA  on May 20, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Mafia princess Angelina Amaro has only ever loved one man-and that lone affair was never consummated. Why not? Because her would-be lover, Sal Martucci, fled into the Witness Protection Program…after ratting out Angelina’s father. When Sal is found tending bar in Key West, the wildly dysfunctional Amaro clan heads south-one member with love on her mind, the others with murder in their hearts.
Different    by Tony Butler
Price: $2.99 USD. 96330 words. Language: English. Published by Bluewood Publishing on May 20, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

What is happening to eighteen-year-old Jay and what is she changing into? How did she manage to lift a bus and what is the blue light that flows from her? Could she ever risk having children, knowing her mother laid an egg? The UK Prime Minister and the US Vice President know who she is. They created her parents in a secret lab, and killed them. Now they must kill her to protect themselves.
Penelope and The Birthday Curse    by Ron D. Voigts
Price: $0.99 USD. 55790 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2011. Fiction » Children’s books » Fiction.

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In a time before cell phones, MP3 players, and the Internet, a girl could roll up her sleeves and solve a murder, especially before she becomes the next victim. PENELOPE AMOUR is thirteen and rebellious. Her controlling mother and eccentric father dominate her life. And she lives isolated in the Manor where such a murder has occurred.
World Series of Murder    by John Vorhaus
Price: $2.99 USD. 86180 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

The prequel -- of sorts -- to Vorhaus's Radar Hoverlander novels, World Series of Murder introduces us to Radar's lovable, hapless, flaky sidekick Vic Mirplo, as he joins forces with poker goddess Megan Moore and obsessive collector Jim Rafferty to unravel a secret conspiracy to control the wealth of Las Vegas. Poker, murder, Mirplo...what's not to love?
The Victor's History: A Short Story    by Sean O'Hara
Price: $0.99 USD. 9110 words. Language: English. Published by Pulp Electronique  on May 19, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

When the legend becomes fact, the truth will get you killed! Saefelsin's seen some grisly murders in his days, but the death of the historian Lokomolos is beyond his experience. What had the scholar uncovered to draw down such violent wrath?
The Naked Umbrella Thieves    by Ian Wild
Price: $2.99 USD. 71860 words. Language: English. Published by Knightstone Publishing  on May 19, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Times are tough for the men and women of Old Grethwick Police Force. As if one-legged murderers, ghoulish thespians, drug-dealing vicars and human-hating buildings aren't enough to deal with, someone has just made seventy-five politicians disappear. At least that last one has cheered everybody up a bit.
Deadly Shorts    by Julie Hyzy
Price: $1.99 USD. 15740 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2011. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Julie Hyzy's Chicago news researcher is back in two short stories: "Sanctimony" and "Criminal Intent." Join the intrepid Alex St. James, her cranky boss, Bass, and the ever-efficient Detective Lulinski as they take on a long-forgotten crime, and a doctor who's preying on the most vulnerable.