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Dead On    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 81570 words. Published by Rob Preece on April 27, 2009. .

When a scruffy ex-boxer picks up P.I. Deacon Bishop at the south Texas airport, Bishop worries that he's made a long trip for nothing. Because Leon Huggins doesn't look like he could pay a bar tab, let alone a detective's retainer. But Leon isn't the client--not at first, anyway. Leon's brother is supposed to be the client but then Eli Huggins ends up dead. Bishop can't walk away.
Distant Cousin: Repatriation    by Al Past
Price: $4.99 USD. 72400 words. Published on April 30, 2009. .

In volume 2 of the Distant Cousin series, Ana Darcy learns more about Earth, her new home: money is king, and no good deed goes unpunished. Forced to choose between death and returning to her native planet, what will become of her husband and her adorable twins? Try the free sample to taste the engaging flavor of this light-hearted thriller.
Deadly Sting: A Deacon Bishop Mystery    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 86390 words. Published by Rob Preece on July 1, 2009. .

It sounds like an easy job--trail a woman from the airport to her destination and call in where she went. In fact, the job sounds too easy for hardboiled P.I. Deacon Bishop. Still, he needs the money. So... Unfortunately, Bishop is right. Before he can say 'sting,' he's caught in a web of deadly redheads, angry terrorists, murder and... honeybees.
Better Off Dead In Paradise    by John Carinci
Price: $1.09 USD. 82610 words. Published on September 14, 2009. .

Better Off Dead In Paradise is the sequel to Better Off Dead, which told the story of Frank Granstino, a younglife insurance salesman who got trapped the Mafia into writing life insurance policies on people who ended up dying mysteriously. Frank almost killed was saved by the FBI. Now in thise sequel the Mob catches up to Frank in the Cayman Islands, and the chase begins. Action packed thriller!
Better Off Dead    by John Carinci
Price: $1.09 USD. 93620 words. Published on September 17, 2009. .

Young Frank Granstino knew that selling life insurance would be a tough business even though he had only started selling six months before. But he never thought that it could cost him his life. After all, who knew that Tony Vongemi, a restaurant owner who had been feeding Frank people to write insurance on, was in the Mob? When Frank's clients start dying he realizes that something is dead wrong.
White Russian    by Edward Wallace Richbourg
Price: $3.99 USD. 94130 words. Published on September 22, 2009. .

Alexei Kikalishvili demands justice for the brutal murder of the parents of eight-year-old Maria Tarpischeva. The former intelligence officer hatches the Peterhof Progression. What he doesn't realize is just how much trouble that's about to cause him. The flippant, even irreverent, Alexei Kikalisvilli often entertains during his tragic global quest for revenge against the Russian Mafiya.
Crime Stories Volume 1 - The Mob    by David Grace
Price: $0.99 USD. 14530 words. Published on September 28, 2009. .

All three stories take place in mid-sixties NYC. The principal character is Eddie Montefusco, a gun dealer to the Abruzzi Crime Family. "Piece Work" was originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in November 2004. Length 5,370 words. "Willie Bats" was originally published in AHMM in March 2005. Length 4,300 words. "A Shot In Time" has not been previously published.
What The Red Moon Knows    by Joe Hilley
Price: $4.99 USD. 75140 words. Published by Electric Moon Publishing  on October 6, 2009. .

Who is the man Ruth England sees getting into a yellow Cadillac one afternoon? Is it Elvis Presley--long thought dead--with whom she had a brief romantic encounter when she was a teen? Or is it Bobby Wayne Pugh, an Elvis impersonator who is on the run from the Mafia? Only the Red Moon knows...
Morning Can Last Forever    by Holden Wilde
Price: Free! 2520 words. Published on November 9, 2009. .

2,000 words of fiction on how a simple criminal transaction could go awry if done on a wrong morning
Oil and Water    by James H Madden
Price: $1.99 USD. 86620 words. Published on March 5, 2010. .

The U.S. suspects the Russian mafia of helping Iran develop nuclear weapons by supplying the necessary material and scientists, which could mean an imminent attack against Israel. CIA physicist Katherine Combes and Mossad agent Jake Stern, with time running out, try to uncover the Iranian plans as they pursue an informer's puzzling clue about "oil and water."