To Live and Die in L.A.    by Gerald Petievich
Price: $2.99 USD. 64580 words. Published on August 29, 2010. .
Two U.S. Treasury agents, partners and antagonists, are drawn into a matrix of violence and corruption, southern California-style, that becomes a journey through a sunlit hell - at the end of which they become experts on the thin line between what it takes to live - and die - in L.A.

Cat Had a Tail    by Steven Bennett
Price: Free! 3720 words. Published on September 2, 2010. .
Murder swirls amidst the coffee and haiku as caffeine and curiosity lead a man from the comfortable settings of the Cafe 575 to find murder in the dark city streets.

One-Shot Deal    by Gerald Petievich
Price: $2.99 USD. 45080 words. Published on September 27, 2010. .
Charlie Carr is Petievich's brilliant creation - a bullish Treasury Agent in the street-smart sad-eyed tradition of Raymond Chandler. Carr rips the lid off an intricate scheme to print ten million in US Treasury notes on stolen government security paper - a scam that begins in the inner sanctum of the US Mint and ends in a pool of blood beneath the smoking barrel of Carr's .357 magnum

Indian Time    by Melissa Yi
Price: $0.99 USD. 4920 words. Published by Olo Books on January 6, 2011. .
Fresh out of jail and off drugs, Fred Redish embarks on a new life. First up: getting to know his two young sons, who are under the custody of his mother-in-law. Problem is, she poisons them against Mohawks in general and Fred in particular. How can he get his boys back before he loses them forever? "Impressive...moving"--Publisher's Weekly A best short mystery of 2010 by criminalbrief

Rivercity    by Gareth Bouch
Price: $6.99 USD. 76520 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .
15 minutes into the future: Coates, a researcher and investigator, is hired to trace the whereabouts of a missing adolescent. As he digs deeper he discovers an underworld of vampires, police corruption, murders and media manipulation. It seems the boy's disappearance is a tiny part of a much bigger story: one that will bring Coates' world crashing down and endanger all those around him.

300 Nights    by Kriss Perras Running Waters
Price: $5.99 USD. 60560 words. Published on February 24, 2011. .
Brief Synopsis: 300 Nights is a cyberpunk science fiction novel where a society controlled by genetic manipulation creates social classes based on neural implants and gene bums. The biological superpower, the Basic Protection Corporation, controls the key to human survival. Yet, the Company stands idly by while a deadly space-born virus hurled down to Earth during an apocalyptic meteor storm annih

The Last Laugh    by Justin Cawthorne
Price: Free! 10200 words. Published on February 28, 2011. .
Detective Dirk Nickel couldn't care less about clowns, but his is a city without laughs where clowns are a dying breed. Then, one day Nickel is framed - branded a 'chuckler' - and the heat is on. Can Nickel uncover who framed him in time, maybe even bring down the city-wide conspiracy against clowns in the bargain... or will the last laugh be on him?

Hollowpoint    by Robert Reuland
Price: $2.99 USD. 70710 words. Published on March 2, 2011. .
The highly praised debut novel of real-life Brooklyn homicide prosecutor Robert Reuland.

Semiautomatic    by Robert Reuland
Price: $2.99 USD. 72050 words. Published on March 2, 2011. .
The follow-up to Reuland's critically acclaimed debut novel Hollowpoint.

Great Cinema Detectives: Best Movies of Mystery, Suspense & Film Noir    by John Howard Reid
Price: $4.99 USD. 108010 words. Published on April 2, 2011. .
One of John Howard Reid's most informative and interesting books, this is an invaluable guide not only for film buffs, but for all admirers of cinema entertainments, whether they be movie fans or DVD collectors. True, you may not agree with some of JHR's comments, but that is the beauty of these books. They give readers something to think about. And you may be alerted to buy DVDs of many movies.