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Nursing a Grudge    by Chris Well
Price: $0.99 USD. 63770 words. Agented by MacGregor Literary  on March 20, 2012. .

With the nursing home about to close for good, can grumpy old man Earl Walker find a killer—and figure out his relationship with his new lady friend—before all the suspects move away?
Murder at Honeysuckle Hotel    by Rose Pressey
Price: $3.99 USD. 58510 words. Published on April 10, 2012. .

It’s summertime in Honeysuckle, and everyone is lazing in the shade with a tall glass of lemonade. Everyone except Raelynn Pendleton. She’s stuck working at the local store to make the rent while her no-good ex-husband lives it up with a floozy. When she inherits a Victorian house, Raelynn jumps at the chance to turn her life around. How can she afford the upkeep on such a huge place? Simple.
Shag Harbour UFO Incident    by Vortex
Price: $0.99 USD. 2540 words. Published on April 12, 2012. .

The Shag Harbour UFO Incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbour, a tiny fishing village in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on October 4, 1967.
Valentich Disappearance    by Vortex
Price: $0.99 USD. 2360 words. Published on April 13, 2012. .

The Valentich disappearance refers to the unexplained disappearance on 21 October 1978 of 20-year-old Frederick Valentich while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait in Australia. He intended to land at King Island to pick up three or four friends and return to Moorabbin Airport.
Murder Without Pity    by Steve Haberman
Price: $3.25 USD. 71100 words. Published on May 1, 2012. .

Murder Without Pity occurs in a Paris of riots over police killings and Far Right extremists. Here a state criminal investigator, grandson of a French Nazi collaborator during Germany's WWII Occupation of France, works small crime cases. Ashamed of his family's history, he avoids anything political. Little does he suspect the change awaiting him when he investigates a pensioner's bizarre murder.
The Almost Assassin    by Laura Pauling
Price: Free! 13360 words. Published on May 18, 2012. .

A teen attempts to follow in the family business but a beautiful "spy" may be his downfall making him The Almost Assassin. A 4K word short story with an excerpt from A Spy Like Me.
The Secrets of the Sibyl: a short story    by Nancy Adams
Price: $0.99 USD. 5930 words. Published on May 19, 2012. .

"The Secrets of the Sibyl" is a short Gothic tale set in the Roman world of 382 A.D. When her father buys a decaying villa on the wild, rocky coast of Cumae, city of the ancient Sibyline oracle, fourteen-year-old Cellina finds mysteries at every turn. Following the trail of a mysterious silver box, she uncovers the secret of a decades-old crime committed within the villa's crumbling walls.
Most Likely to Murder    by Carole Shmurak
Price: $2.99 USD. 40660 words. Published on May 20, 2012. .

What high school class has a thirty-two year reunion? A class whose president has left the country, whose vice president is dead, and whose treasurer is in the Witness Protection program - in fact, Professor Susan Lombardi’s class from Count Basie High School. At the reunion, one of her “old gang” ends up dead, and Susan and her friends team up to find the classmate Most Likely to Murder.
The Case of Jack the Nipper ~ A Chronicle of Mister Marmee    by H.L. Stephens
Price: $2.99 USD. 126200 words. Published on June 3, 2012. .

When Victorian London is gripped by a series of gruesome attacks and a senseless murder, Scotland Yard turns to the renowned consulting detective Sir Happy and his faithful colleague Mister Marmee to help track down the beast before the killer claims his next victim. Will their efforts be too late to save London’s most eminent veterinarian Dr. Stephen Hanover from the jaws of Jack the Nipper?
Body in the Bluff Norma Jean's Mysteries Series Book Two    by Jo Ann Snapp
Price: $3.99 USD. 32230 words. Published on July 16, 2012. .

Norma Jean is at it again. On a beautiful fall day, trees the color of the rainbow, she and good friend, Roy take a hike into the hills above her creek property. Norma Jean comes upon a skeleton jammed into a bluff crevice and the skeleton is clinging to a strange object. Norma Jean wants to find out who lived in those bones.