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Going Postal    by Amy Eastlake
Price: $3.99 USD. 81100 words. Published by Rob Preece on March 1, 2009. .

Postal carrier Kimberly Walsh thinks her day is going bad when she gets handed a dog--one that loves to bite her. She's wrong--her day gets really bad when she discovers the dog's owner...murdered. When she finds another body the next day, the police decide they've discovered another postal worker gone bad. Kimberly has got to find a way to clear her name.
Saints Preserve Us    by DLP Books
Price: Free! 63950 words. Published on September 16, 2009. .

Where's Lorena Alger? This is what everyone in Ash Lake, Florida is asking about their most famous resident...a young girl about to be canonized as a saint, a young girl who hasn't moved from her grave in over 150 years. Now she is gone, and her grave is now occupied by the fresher corpse of the cemetery caretaker.
Murder Most Trivial    by DLP Books
Price: $0.99 USD. 93260 words. Published on October 14, 2009. .

Murder, is that your final answer? High school senior Jason Greevey seems to think so. When winning contestants from a local restaurant's trivia contest begin turning up dead, runner-up Jason worries that he will be the next weakest link!
The Turtle Mound Murder    by Mary Clay
Price: $4.99 USD. 63570 words. Published by Inspirational Fiction /IF Mystery on October 16, 2009. .

A Daffodils* Mystery (*Divorced And Finally Free Of Deceitful, Insensitive, Licentious Scum®) **Movie/Tv Rights Optioned** In the tradition of The First Wives Club & Anne George’s Southern Sisters Mysteries, Mary Clay gives us a hilarious novel about middle-aged, Southern sorority sisters who reunite when the last of the trio divorces her two-timing husband.
Competition Can Be Murder: The Eighth Charlie Parker Mystery    by Connie Shelton
Price: $4.99 USD. 75470 words. Published on November 3, 2009. .

Charlie and Drake are off to Scotland to fly a helicopter contract at the offshore oil rigs in the North Sea, where they find that the helicopter operators are embroiled in an ongoing battle with boat owners. Meanwhile, at the castle where they are staying, Charlie finds herself helping the lord of the manor when his grandson is kidnapped. "Tension is fast paced..." --Midwest Book Review
Executive Lunch    by Maria E. Schneider
Price: $1.99 USD. 90330 words. Published on November 9, 2009. .

Sedona is given the opportunity of a lifetime: play an up-and-coming executive with all the trappings of wealth with someone else footing the bill. The catch: find out who is stealing company funds before the criminals find out that their program is being debugged. Sedona runs into danger, the corporate glass ceiling, and an occasional chance at romance in her quest.
Where the Dreams End    by KD Easley
Price: $2.99 USD. 80110 words. Published by NukeWorks Publishing  on February 21, 2010. .

Brocs Harley hasn't always lived on the right side of the law, but he's never been accused of murder...until now. A repo man with a degree in criminal justice and a background in grand theft, Brocston Harley wears his black sheep label with pride, but now it's about to bite him. His little brother is dead, and Brocs is the number one suspect. Does he have the skills he needs to uncover a killer?
Rottweiler Rescue: a mystery for dog lovers    by Ellen O'Connell
Price: $2.99 USD. 74340 words. Published on March 3, 2010. .

Dianne Brennan doesn't expect her volunteer work for Rottweiler Rescue to be easy, but is it supposed to be murderously hard? Murder is what Dianne faces when she takes a dog to its new home and sees a killer. Worse, he begins stalking her with deadly intent. Can Dianne and her Rottweilers collar the killer?
Bartholi's Rest    by Marshall Thornton
Price: $1.19 USD. 17290 words. Published on March 30, 2010. .

In the second Jan Birch Mystery, Jan takes a job as a waitress behind her husband’s back. When the owner of the restaurant, Paul Bartholi, takes a near-fatal fall down the basement stairs, Jan quickly becomes convinced it wasn’t an accident. She attempts to mind her own business, but when Paul’s fiery fiancé tells the police Jan may have pushed her boss down the stairs, she has to act.
Death on Deadline    by Diane Majeske
Price: $0.99 USD. 65280 words. Published on April 8, 2010. .

Newspaper reporter America Miles is used to the calm, slow pace of small-town living. But life changes suddenly when nasty editor Harrison Fielding keels over clutching a brownie baked by her best friend - the food editor at the paper. Soon America is trying to determine who might have wanted to see the editor dead. There's just one problem: Everyone hated Harrison Fielding.