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The Potato Professor    by Ed Teja
Price: $0.99 USD. 1990 words. Published by Float Street Press  on August 30, 2012. .

A fictional review of a fictional long poem about a professor who is the world's foremost expert on potatoes and how his search for the cause of bruised potatoes leads him to love in the potato patch and a new life.
Killed by Scandal    by Simon Nash
Price: $0.99 USD. 66620 words. Published by Long Lane Press  on December 8, 2012. .

When Adam Ludlow is asked to give a talk to an amateur dramatics society, he does not expect to be drawn into a web of gossip, intrigue, and murder.
Hitchhiker    by Kiki
Price: $2.99 USD. 87140 words. Published on December 13, 2012. .

Amidst Austin’s bars and backstreets a woman searches for a runaway bride, a chess hustler, and someone to share her life with. Along the way she finds a woman who wants her, a man who loves her, and herself. Hitchhiker takes the reader on a romantic romp from the Texas Hill Country to the bright lights of an Atlantic City casino before finding mystery in the dark waters of a Louisiana bayou.
C.R.I.M.E. Science - Book 1: The Beginning    by Sue Perry
Price: $0.99 USD. 17670 words. Published on December 24, 2012. .

A misfit group of scientists and tech whizzes form a detective agency in order to solve crimes and right wrongs. In this, the first book of a series, they investigate the death of a renowned volcano scientist. He dies in a volcanic eruption in what everyone considers a terrible accident. Everyone except his widow, who insists he was murdered.
The Sun Also Rises in the Desert    by Gerald Locklin
Price: $0.99 USD. 9140 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on March 31, 2013. .

The moral and spiritual complexity of academia comes to bear as a "lost generation" of educators pursue an attractive colleague across a spate of conferences. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Gerald Locklin.
Poison and Papyrus    by Betty Younis
Price: $2.99 USD. 42750 words. Published on May 3, 2013. .

Murder in the ivy-covered ivory tower. A famous Classicist is found mysteriously poisoned just as a recently discovered fragment of Homer is set to overturn centuries of scholarship. The Classical world is in an uproar as reputations hang in the balance and murder stalks the halls of academia. Magnolia Henley stumbles onto the truth and races to solve the mystery before suffering the same fate.