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Swift, Blind    by Edward O'Dell
Price: $0.99 USD. 16130 words. Language: English. Published on December 22, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Jake Stanton has just killed his best friend for all the right reasons. Why then is he having such a difficult time dealing with his current circumstance?
Aside of Murder    by Brick ONeil
Price: $4.99 USD. 84950 words. Language: English. Published on December 22, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

(4.00 from 3 reviews)
What happens when a High Class Call Girl and an embezzling bank executive blackmail each other into marriage? Revenge and Murder!
Mouth to God's Ear    by Christopher Grosso
Price: $2.99 USD. 42680 words. Language: English. Published by Bucks County Publishing  on December 22, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

In the gritty novel Mouth to God’s Ear, God is leaving forever and it is going to be one hell of a farewell. Although 33 year old Brooklyn hospice counselor Godfrey Thorn should be enjoying the conventional pleasures of life, Godfrey (or God, as he is known) feels dead inside.
Comfort Zone    by Christopher G. Moore
Price: $5.95 USD. 102390 words. Language: English. Published by HeavenLakePress  on December 22, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam is opening to the outside world. There is a smell of fast money in the air and poverty in the streets. Business is booming and in austere Ho Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have arrived to make money and not war.
Edgeways On    by Mike Crowson
Price: $1.99 USD. 60550 words. Language: English. Published on December 22, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

What is the connection berween the unidentified corpse of a North African on a forestry trail in a Spanish National Park, a birdwatcher on horseback, a red motorbike, 2 missing British tourists and a shoot-out at a filling station? Sgt Louis Hortez of the Guardia Civil in in Grazalema examines a puzzle from every angles,including edgeways on, and foils a terrorist atrocity at a festival.
Zero Hour in Phnom Pehn    by Christopher G. Moore
Price: $5.95 USD. 102880 words. Language: English. Published by HeavenLakePress  on December 21, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

(4.00 from 1 review)
In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar. Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefi
The Blue Virgin: A Nora Tierney Mystery    by M.K. Graff
Price: $7.99 USD. 86310 words. Language: English. Published on December 21, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

The mysterious death of Bryn Wallace draws American Nora Tierney to Oxford to clear her close friend Val Rogan, who has been wrongfully accused of Bryn's murder. Or has she? Nora quickly becomes embroiled in the murder investigation, much to the dismay of Detective Inspector Declan Barnes and the illustrator of Nora's children's book, Simon Ramsey.
Everybody Loves a Hero    by Jack Nolte
Price: $4.99 USD. 52810 words. Language: English. Published by Flying Raven Press  on December 21, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

What makes a hero? In these ten riveting tales of crime and suspense, Jack Nolte takes the reader on a thrilling journey from the back streets of Chicago to the windy bluffs of the Oregon coast exploring that very question. There's good guys, bad guys, and everything in between. Some stories are dark and brooding, others light and quirky, and some defy categorization altogether.
The Fraudulent Fiance or Saving Grace    by N. R. McCarthy
Price: $5.95 USD. 127760 words. Language: English. Published on December 21, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

This book has it all! It is a romantic love story, and action adventure, a mystery, a spy thriller, and a comedy. The novel takes place at various sites around the world, including beautiful Australia and the incredibly picturesque Island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The main protagonist is a southern belle from Virginia who works for the C.I.A. and who does not lack courage or intelligence.
Lost to the World    by Libby Sternberg
Price: $2.99 USD. 94780 words. Language: English. Published by Istoria Books  on December 21, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

(5.00 from 1 review)
In 1954 Baltimore, Sean Reilly, the detective from DEATH IS THE COOL NIGHT, investigates the murder of a Johns Hopkins researcher. The death appears linked to the polio vaccine trials about to begin across the country. LOST TO THE WORLD captures a moment when the world waited for the "summer plague," that had afflicted thousands, including the late president, to be wiped out once and for all.