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A Hole in the Water    by Charles Bechtel
Price: $3.99 USD. 83180 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Meet Drew Nolan, reluctant detective. "A Hole in the Water" is the first of six books in a series about a former cop turned Charter Boat captain living in Key Largo. What he wants is to be a bum, away from it all. What he winds up is a guy who finds himself too often in the middle of other people's messes. He tells his stories with ironic humor and a bit of self-deprecation.
Creatures of Dust    by Scott Hunter
Price: $0.99 USD. 79100 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural.

An undercover detective goes missing and the body of a young man is found mutilated in a shop doorway. Is there a connection? DCI Brendan Moran’s suspicions are aroused when a senior officer insists on handling the investigation himself. Moran finds himself coming back to the same question again and again: is he leading his team up a blind alley?
Woman at the Well    by Eunice Loecher
Price: $0.99 USD. 54350 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Zita Stillman’s New Year’s Eve celebration includes fireworks-- and a new murder. When her best friend, Zinnia Blossom Winwood becomes a suspect in the investigation, Zita’s normally trouble-free life develops overwhelming complications.
A Widow's Might    by Eunice Loecher
Price: $0.99 USD. 56550 words. Language: American English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Fred didn’t show for the fiesta lunch special on Wednesday at the Arbor Vale Café. Why not? He’d called to say he had something to tell her. So Zita Stillman drops by his house to hear him out. Fred had been such a good friend to her late husband. But Fred lies, lifeless, by the wood pile.
Mission: a novel    by Peter Robertson
Price: $9.95 USD. 78840 words. Language: English. Published by Gibson House  on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

When a second drowned homeless man is pulled from flooded Boulder Creek, Tom’s sense of unease kicks in again with a vengeance. In this sequel to "Permafrost," the precarious world of the Colorado mountain town’s homeless population becomes a focus for the semi-retired businessman and a victim pool for a driven killer.
Surface Tension    by Christine Kling
Price: $3.99 USD. 101420 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Surface Tension is the first book in this four-book suspense series featuring Florida tug and salvage captain Seychelle Sullivan. Working as she does in a man's world, Seychelle has to work twice as hard just to compete. Seychelle answers a MayDay call to rescue a million-dollar yacht and finds a dead bikini-clad woman, while the skipper, Seychelle's former lover, is nowhere to be found.
Viral Vector    by Marcus McGee
Price: $9.99 USD. 115960 words. Language: English. Published by Pegasus Books  on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

With the 2012 presidential race in the background, it is the story of a group of billionaires who seek to influence the election, using a new weapon, a viral vector, to eliminate a “White House” target. This new viral vector technology seems likely to be the heir apparent of the president’s drone program as the story unfolds, taking multiple twists and turns and keeping readers on edge.
Shadow of the Dragon    by Adrian Gilbert
Price: $6.99 USD. 146290 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Adventure » General.

At 25 Jos Clarence has it all. On his way to becoming a top academic, he owns his own flat in Central London. But his world is blown apart when he inherits a cottage in Wales from a great-aunt he barely knew. Suddenly he is plunged into a different world of secret societies, Arthurian legend and even dragons. Will he and his friends be defeated by a bitter rival or will he fulfil his destiny?
12 Drummers Drumming    by Diana Deverell
Price: $2.99 USD. 86140 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage.

A New York bound flight explodes soon after takeoff from Heathrow and US Foreign Service Officer Casey Collins is swiftly embroiled in a twisted series of events that paint her as a terrorist conspirator and a suspect in the airline bombing. Casey finds herself in a breakneck race against time, a lone woman standing between a diabolical terrorist and the completion of his deadly plan.
Three Arthur Beautyman Mysteries    by Erik Hanberg
Price: $6.99 USD. 134710 words. Language: English. Published on May 10, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural.

This is a specially priced box set of three mysteries in the Arthur Beautyman series (#1, #2, #3). It includes The Saints Go Dying, The Marinara Murders, and The Con Before Christmas (a novella).