The Beneficiary    by Marshall Thornton
Price: $0.99 USD. 10560 words. Published on January 30, 2009. .
Set during the L.A. riots, this contemporary noir follows a real estate agent who's got a scheme to make a killing - but things don't turn out the way she planned. Reviews have called the story "a great suspense tale", "told in tight concise prose with wonderful character development", and "it keeps you turning pages."

Paris 1934: Victory in Retreat    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 85810 words. Published on June 7, 2010. .
In Depression-era France, Sorbonne student Sandrine works with American reporters covering momentous political battles raging on the streets of Paris. In summer, she pursues amorous adventures of her own during the festive Bastille Day celebrations. Destinies intersect in October 1934 when a Yugoslav king arrives in France for an important state visit and a historically startling climax.

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: $1.99 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

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

City Haul    by Philip Garlington
Price: $2.99 USD. 60480 words. Published on March 21, 2011. .
A feckless, womanizing San Francisco supervisor and his 15-year-old administrative assistant rob the city hall payroll to finance an otherwise hopeless reelection campaign. The insouciant Jay Bodwell has antagonized his main contributor, his moneybags father-in-law, but his truant aide feels his boss still has a chance, if they just had the funds. A temptress makes a larcenous proposal

Your Cheatin' Heart: A Tiffany Waters Paranormal Mystery    by Rebecca M. Senese
Price: $2.99 USD. 8070 words. Published on April 11, 2011. .
Following a cheating husband and his tarty blonde, PI Tiffany Waters witnesses the explosion of the lover’s motel. The police find only one body: the husband. Now Tiffany must save her husband from a mystery man demanding her photos of the lovers’ meeting. But how can two copies of the same photo be different? How can the blonde in the photo blink? “Your Cheatin’ Heart” is 7,693 words.

Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping)    by Kelli Stanley
Price: $3.99 USD. 92350 words. Published on April 26, 2011. .
Nox Dormienda is the award-winning debut novel of critically-acclaimed author Kelli Stanley (City of Dragons), and the first of a series in a new genre: Roman Noir. Featuring Arcturus, a hardboiled protagonist in the best Philip Marlowe tradition, Nox is a different kind of historical mystery, a suspense thriller that combines a classic noir style with the rich texture of the ancient past.

First Feature    by Jason Blacker
Price: $4.99 USD. 101870 words. Published on May 17, 2011. .
First Feature is a bitingly wry detective whodunit featuring ex-LAPD's not so celebrated detective Anthony Carrick as he juggles mafia lords, drug addled neophytes, nymphomaniacs, gay counterculture, vegan hippies and tinsel town's dark side in a quest to uncover a homicide in the midst of his own personal turmoil.

Money Ain't Nothing    by Jason Blacker
Price: $0.99 USD. 8200 words. Published on May 18, 2011. .
Money ain’t nothing if you’ve got a lot of it. But then again, a lot of money won’t necessarily buy happiness either. In this Anthony Carrick mystery, hard boiled detective Anthony Carrick is asked to solve the murder of a rich dame’s son. Police think it’s an accidental death, but could it be something more sinister?