Time Out    by Pat Whitaker
Price: $2.99 USD. 49880 words. Published by Cooper's Press on November 24, 2009. .
Reporting on so-called alien abductions, a newspaperman is caught up a mixture of drugs, murder and a truly extraordinary set of events. It intermingles crime with romance and Science Fiction, confronts what we may perceive to be true with logic, and asks us to reconsider.

Captain Stevenson's Secret    by Noel Bodenmiller
Price: $1.99 USD. 17080 words. Published on November 30, 2009. .
Alone and stranded in the Pacific, a desperate sailor withstands the hardships of starvation and injury, unaware that the island was once famous for a pirate's treasure and a cabin boy. Discovering the remains of a man's tortured body complicates his hope of rescue as he learns that greater danger lay ahead.

Perfect Crime    by Jack Erickson
Price: Free! 11900 words. Published on December 26, 2009. .
A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time. She commits the Perfect Crime -- and starts an exciting life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off her dead husband's generous life insurance policy. Until her doorbell rings one night . . . .

A Long Way From Eden    by David Chacko
Price: $4.99 USD. 92870 words. Published by Foremost Press  on January 4, 2010. .
When a sinkhole freakishly erupts on the Sun Coast of Florida, the decaying remains of a young woman surface. Homicide detectives are forced to dig ever more deeply along twisted, dangerous paths into the past. Their journey makes for a haunting, teeth-grinding tale.

Gloria    by David  Sartof
Price: Free! 5310 words. Published on February 7, 2010. .
I’m dying, well that’s what I’ve been told. How has my life come to this: death, betrayal, friendship, love? Yes, love. I know it’s there somewhere, but I’m struggling to make sense of things. How can I, Oliver Beaton-Court, be here in this cabin, looking at my dead wife and holding an axe… Maybe Tom can give me the answers I need, or maybe there are no answers…

The Wages of Gin    by John Anderson
Price: $9.99 USD. 62560 words. Published on February 10, 2010. .
The Wages of Gin is a work of fiction and any resemblance to actual people is purely coincidental. Yeah, sure. It is indeed concerned with people the author has known and jobs he has held. But unlike Jack Collins, the murderous character who confesses here, the author has never killed anyone.

Angel Food and Devil Dogs - A Maggie Gale Mystery    by Liz  Bradbury
Price: $3.50 USD. 120800 words. Published on February 18, 2010. .
When private detective Maggie Gale is called to a college to discuss the suspicious suicide of a gay professor, she shakes hands with the attractive Dr. Kathryn Anthony, who smiles at her with a faint but unmistakable touch of lust. Thrills, humor, & hot lesbian romance combine in this classic who-done-it style mystery.

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?

Norm    by Frank Rawlins
Price: $2.99 USD. 87830 words. Published on February 25, 2010. .
Take a pinch of Morse, a dash of Lewis, a spoonful of Hathaway ... and there you have Norm. Norman Philip Ducker, Oxford’s curious new detective. Cosmology and the mathematics of chaos fascinate him. So do football, motor racing, and the art of winning. But he still can’t get his head round opera. He likes pop; he drinks lager as well as real ale. Oh, and he's not a policeman...

Ghosts at the Getty    by Robert Penner
You set the price! 3430 words. Published on February 25, 2010. .
Two ghosts, eternally attached to the dagger that killed them, are part of the Pompeii exhibit at the famed Getty Center Art Museum. Punished for thousands of years will they find a way to be free or will they be forever bound to the blade?