Briefs for the Reading Room    by Dan Marvin
Price: $2.99 USD. 51020 words. Published on March 11, 2009. .
Microwave ovens revolutionized dinner. Dishwashers revolutionized cleaning the dishes. And "Briefs for the Reading Room" revolutionizes the fiction you read after dinner. 102 micro-novels pack a full story into a page or two. You don't want to preheat your oven and you don't want pages of description. Get to the good stuff! Dan Marvin answers your need for speed. Join the movement!

Dead On    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 81570 words. Published by Rob Preece on April 27, 2009. .
When a scruffy ex-boxer picks up P.I. Deacon Bishop at the south Texas airport, Bishop worries that he's made a long trip for nothing. Because Leon Huggins doesn't look like he could pay a bar tab, let alone a detective's retainer. But Leon isn't the client--not at first, anyway. Leon's brother is supposed to be the client but then Eli Huggins ends up dead. Bishop can't walk away.

Deadly Sting: A Deacon Bishop Mystery    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 86390 words. Published by Rob Preece on July 1, 2009. .
It sounds like an easy job--trail a woman from the airport to her destination and call in where she went. In fact, the job sounds too easy for hardboiled P.I. Deacon Bishop. Still, he needs the money. So... Unfortunately, Bishop is right. Before he can say 'sting,' he's caught in a web of deadly redheads, angry terrorists, murder and... honeybees.

To Rule the Universe    by Everett Coles
Price: $3.99 USD. 93890 words. Published on October 4, 2009. .
newly edited and illustrated sequel to 'The Faces of Immortality'- Crash landing on an unknown world of many disparate races, Meredon discovers the real significance of the planet. Here, Cluster finances can be wrecked but by whom & why would they want Meredon dead? More… does the Universe really revolve around this unheard-of, backwoods planet? Meredon’s powers are fully tested

Silent Witness    by Rebecca Forster
Price: $3.99 USD. 102990 words. Published on October 28, 2009. .
Josie Bates is pulled back into the world of high-stakes law when her ex-cop lover, Archer, is accused of murdering his disable stepson - a son Josie never knew he had. Racing against time, she must prove Archer has been framed. Her faith is shaken as she battles to save Archer, almost despairing until she uncovers the most dangerous evidence of all - the testimony of the silent witness.

EAST VILLAGE NOIR    by Russell Atwood
Price: Free! 6770 words. Published on December 20, 2009. .
"Finding a runaway teenager in New York City is easy. The hard part is finding the one your looking for." Private eye Payton Sherwood is hired by the parents of a runaway girl, and while searching for her through the shadowy sidestreets of the East Village, he comes across a connection to a murdered autograph expert. Short story originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1997.

Danger-Close    by Jon F. Merz
Price: $2.99 USD. 70480 words. Published on March 12, 2010. .
For Jake Thunder, a paralyzed ex-specops commando, everyday life is a battle. A hard-boiled, hard-drinking womanizer on one hand, Jake also tries to learn from the wisdom of his Native American past. When a knockout blond demands he figure out who killed her sister, a simple "whodunit" becomes a tangled web of deceit, familial backstabbing and black-market baby-dealing with the Russian Mafia & DIA

She Didn't Smile    by Chris Varga
Price: $2.49 USD. 76970 words. Published on April 1, 2010. .
Sandy Meyers had everything going for her. Good looks and a great job as host of television's "That's News". But one night her life tragically comes to an end at the hands of an unknown assailant. The country is shocked to hear of the demise of 'Sunny Sandy'. Her assistant, Kathy, hires Rex Mathers to investigate. Was it a crew member from her show or a deranged fan? Or someone else?

Smythe at Large    by George Lee
Price: $4.99 USD. 45920 words. Published on April 6, 2010. .
No-one more surprised when he actually tracks down a wayward teenager than Smythe who is usually more concerned with fiddling his expenses, avoiding the tax man and keeping ahead of his ex-wives. When he finds himself on a nice earner in Antwerp, Smythe thinks he is well ahead of the game but nothing is quite like it seems and the bumbling detective soon finds himself in dire straits...

The First Detect-Eve    by Robert T. Jeschonek
Price: $0.99 USD. 17920 words. Published on May 5, 2010. .
Eve, the first woman in the world, wants one thing. To find who killed her son, Abel, and make them pay. Down on her luck since Eden, Eve combs a shadowy wasteland on the trail of a killer. When Eve becomes the first detective in history, she might end up dead before she can solve the first murder mystery of all time. And snakeskin might be the last thing that flashes before her eyes...