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."

Triple Option    by Darius Powell
Price: Free! 6230 words. Published on February 4, 2010. .
Stormy Brooks must decide whether to turn himself into his boss for tampering with a crime scene, pay off bookies for mounting gambling debts or help his nephew get a new liver in a 24 hours period as time is running out.

Neighborhood Watch (A Tracer Family Mystery)    by Jeff Andrus
Price: $9.99 USD. 78520 words. Published on May 31, 2010. .
With the help of a ragtag collection of in-laws, a pig named Alfred and a dog named Dog, the sleuthing Tracer Family sets out on their second comedic adventure. The search is for their next-door neighbor's elderly sister, Corinth, a one-time femme fatale turned wandering drunk and princess from outer space. The quest leads to a bizarre Oregon town, the sleazy side of Hollywood and a few murders.

Malibu Palms    by Jeff Andrus
Price: $9.99 USD. 67920 words. Published on June 1, 2010. .
Charlie is a funny-tough, hard-drinking bad boy whose wife is a comatose victim of a random drive-by. He doesn't like God, doesn't like cops, and he doesn't like being "a person of interest" when a beautiful neighbor drowns. In trying to track down her murderer, Charlie is sucked into a land scam, corrupt politics, and the sleazy world of Hollywood players and posers.

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.

Huey Dusk    by Whit Howland
Price: $2.99 USD. 7720 words. Published by Untreed Reads on August 18, 2010. .
Girl Scouts with guns. Maniacal mimes. Murder. Intrigue. Big floppy shoes. It's all in a day's work for Huey Dusk, clown and private dick. In his latest case, Dusk discovers there are plans afoot to rub him out. Can he locate his would-be killers before he ends up a puddle of greasepaint? Part noir, part humor and more fun than a three-ring circus, HUEY DUSK will change how you look at mysteries.

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

Lead Poisoning    by J.E. Seymour
Price: $2.99 USD. 68900 words. Published on January 5, 2011. .
Mob troubleshooter Kevin Markinson thinks New Hampshire is the perfect place to retire with his family … but his family doesn’t want to see him. Then there’s the fact that he is also a fugitive, on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. Things go downhill fast as he struggles to balance his home life and his job with his need to keep moving as the law starts to catch up with him.

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