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Of Wives and Zombies (a short story)    by Lucas Nicolato
Price: $0.99 USD. 5710 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction.

A Professor of Philosophy develops a dangerous idea that will change forever his attitudes towards his wife in a wicked and unexpected way.
HOME (Alyssa Donovan Series #2)    by Tracie Gerardi
Price: $8.99 USD. 50500 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller.

ew York City Homicide Detective Alyssa Donovan is back! Along with her partner, Detective Jack Keller, she faces an incredibly dangerous and elusive criminal.
Dream Country: A Nashville Psychic Mystery    by Dan Jewell
Price: $2.99 USD. 104730 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Dilly Renfro is one of aging country music superstar Doyle Renfro’s children. Since her head injury a year earlier, Dilly has admitted to her family she’s a lesbian and discovered she has precognitive dreams. When Pearl Emery, the recently acknowledged African-American love child of her father, is murdered, several suspects emerge. Dilly vows to follow her dreams to find the killer.
Hard Cheese    by Carl Brookins
Price: $0.99 USD. 4930 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

A short story about a short detective, Sean NMI Sean, and his adventure chasing a drug-smuggling murderer through the horse barn at the great Minnesota State Fair.
Blood Moon - A Robert Payne Mystery    by Ed Gorman
Price: $2.99 USD. 75140 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Former FBI agent and psychological profiler Robert Payne is on the trail of a serial killer..A 12 year old girl has been murdered and mutilated, and the detective assigned to the case wound up dead. Now Nora Conners, the girl's wealthy murder, has hired Payne to solve the murder and bring closure.
The Quartet, Temptress    by Ipam 
Price: Free! 40020 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller.

Intro...the Quartet...Austin, Frank, Tom & Stu... Four men, four books...Intro1, intro2, intro3, intro 4 in crime fighters of "Angel of Death"... "Goddess" sees the Quartet beating bank robbers... "Temptress" sees Tom going crazy, locked in Charity Hosptial ward and Misty is kidnapped.... The Quartet is falling apart.
Round to Midnight    by Linda Tegerdine
Price: $5.99 USD. 73260 words. Language: English. Published by E-Books Publisher on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

This eerily atmospheric tale of an evil spirit, who begins to haunt Catherine, together with her husband James, is described in such dramatic detail that the reader is drawn inexorably into each believable yet frightening event.
Rex Royale    by Jack Erickson
Price: $3.99 USD. 124100 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

When the decomposed body of a charismatic Las Vegas casino mogul is recovered from a northern California lake resort, a reporter and free lance writer investigate. They discover the community’s dark secrets; missing women, arsons, police corruption, and rogue backwoodsmen in a remote hunting lodge. A startling discovery reveals a decades old murder committed by one of the community's leaders.
To Whom It May Concern    by Bob MacKenzie
Price: $0.99 USD. 3660 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Spontaneous human combustion and the idea that it passes from generation to generation has long fascinated me, as has magic and the supernatural. In a coal-blackened back shed, when I was six or seven, I saw a girl of about twelve do simple magic, passing her hand through a candle's flame and having her pet crow do tricks. Later, these elements came together and I wrote “To Whom it May Concern.”
The Dreamcaster    by Mark Spann
Price: $1.99 USD. 26000 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Fifth-grader April discovers that a voice in her dreams is her father's, a research scientist who disappeared years ago. She soon learns that nearly everyone in town is having strange dreams, and the dreams are being controlled by a renegade scientist, the man responsible for her father's disappearance. April, her mother, and an undercover federal agent rescue her father and stop The Dreamcaster.