The Perplexing Problem of the Porcelain Bandits    by Dan Johnson
Price: $3.99 USD. 121380 words. Published on August 30, 2010. .
Alex Baker is underemployed and undermotivated, until a cop shows up at his door with strange news about his former housemate, Brent. This is a story of baseball cards, the Chinese Mafia, and many conversations over drinks. If John D. Macdonald and Chuck Klosterman had ever met in San Francisco and shared a few too many glasses of Plymouth, this is the novel they would have written together.

Just Desserts: Greed. Lust. Death. Tiramisu.    by Natasha Alexander
Price: $0.99 USD. 19530 words. Published on July 1, 2011. .
Vince Fantozzi is stuck in a dead-end rut, kowtowing to his dad’s every demand while he watches his own life slip away from him. Until Shirley and Jack move in next door. Suddenly, the pursuit of happiness – or maybe some decent lasagna – shoves everyone into the fast lane and turns Vince’s life on its edge as he careens down a road he never thought he’d travel.