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People Juice    by Diane R. Thompson
Price: $0.99 USD. 3660 words. Language: English. Published by Wonderland Press  on April 27, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

If there’s one thing that can ruin your workday, it’s getting harassed. Beautiful, blonde Jackie has figured out how to handle it—most of the time. But last Friday she almost got snagged in the parking lot by a guy in a hoodie wearing too much aftershave, and now she’s out for revenge.
Headline Ghouls    by Teel James Glenn
Price: $3.99 USD. 71640 words. Language: English. Published by Rob Preece on April 27, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal.

Author Teel James Glenn recreates the "pulp" style of the 1930s with his hardboiled reporter hero Moxie Donnovan and Donnovan's actress wife Maxi. Together the two confront Nazi sympathizers, mad scientists, and Hollywood stars gone bad in the 1930s depression America.
A Flash of Murder    by Jeff Boarts
Price: $2.99 USD. 92930 words. Language: English. Published on April 27, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

The idyllic town of Kittanning finds itself under seige by a serial killer right before the town's season-long 200th anniversary celebration gets underway. Not only are the town's citizens concerned over low attendence and lower profits, but they have no clues as to who this mystery fiend may be. Is it someone new to town, or a life-long resident?
Murder by Design Collection    by Mary Jane Forbes
Price: $4.99 USD. 186820 words. Language: English. Published on April 27, 2012. Fiction » Romance » General.

Gillianne Wilder struggles to fulfill her dream of becoming a fashion designer. Signing on as an intern in Paris a Frenchman turns her world upside down. A Seattle newspaper reporter also sets his eyes on her. She faces a fork in the road—two men, one woman, who’s lives, passions, and dreams, are on a collision course. In choosing her future path, she have the courage to risk?
Body on the Stage    by Bev Robitai
Price: $2.99 USD. 83850 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Dennis Dempster is fat, lonely, and dissatisfied with his life, but things are about to change. He joins a theatre group that’s staging a production of Ladies Night, full of male strippers, muscles and buff bodies. Suddenly fitness becomes a new option. In the course of his transformation he finds new friends, new purpose and a new love. And then he finds a dead body.
Senales Secretas    by TJ Waters
Price: $2.99 USD. 83950 words. Language: Spanish. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Cuando un estratega político muere durante una llamada de transmisión de vídeo, la intérprete del lenguaje de señas, Amy Kellen, descubre que ella no solo fue una espectadora, sino más bien la inocente causante de un asesinato político. ¿Podrá ella salvarse, salvar a su hija, y a su código de silencio cuando los asesinos vengan por ella?
The Prairie Chicken Kill    by Bill Crider
Price: $2.99 USD. 56180 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

That Truman Smith was sitting in a frayed lawn chair reading an old paperback copy of Tobacco Road was not remarkable. And strange as it sounds, it wasn't particularly noteworthy that someone wanted Smith to look into the murder of a prairie chicken; after all, he'd investigated and solved the murder of an alligator, hadn't he?
Clueless in Seattle    by Lisa Deckert
Price: Free! 560 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Kara receives an incriminating photo on her cell phone. Has her boyfriend been cheating right under her nose? A short-short story, about 500 words.
The Wonderfulist and Three Other Short Stories    by Neil Larkins
Price: $1.99 USD. 34210 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

"The Wonderfulist" Willie returns on business to the town he grew up in with no desire to visit his past and encounters an oddity that forces him to change all he'd remembered about that past. "Jack be Simple" Jack and the whole world is forced to witness a battle to the death between two very opposite intergalactic entities. Two others: A comic short, and a nod to the hard-boiled detective.
Murder on a Fishing Trip    by Ed Teja
Price: $2.99 USD. 8050 words. Language: English. Published on April 25, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

When an LA private investigator heads to Colorado to see an old buddy and get in a little fishing, he finds it's like he never left home. He walks in on the murder of a reporter and his buddy, Jimmy the editor and publisher of the local paper wants it solved.