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Flappers, Flasks and Foul Play (Jazz Mystery #1)    by Ellen Mansoor Collier
Price: $3.99 USD. 95520 words. Published on July 1, 2012. .

Rival gangs fight over booze and bars during Prohibition in 1920s Galveston: the "Sin City of the Southwest." Jazz Cross, a young society reporter, suspects foul play when a bank VP collapses at her half-brother Sammy's speakeasy. Was it an accident or a mob hit? As turf wars escalate, Sammy is accused of murder and Jazz must risk her life and career to find the killer. Inspired by actual events.
Moonrakers at Peace and War    by Brooke Broadbent
Price: $2.99 USD. 66150 words. Published on July 21, 2012. .

Navigating between fact and fiction and constantly seeking to uncover truth, Moonrakers recounts the story of immigrants from Wiltshire England to Canada and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries as they encounter the forces governing their lives whether they are political, religious, economic, legal or social.
STOLEN IN PARIS: The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway: My Greatest Temptation: Me and My Pesky Hormones (They Come With No Instructions)    by David Wyant
Price: $3.99 USD. 16650 words. Published on July 31, 2012. .

As seventeen year old Ernest Hemingway came to his last idyllic summer in Northern Michigan, he begins to see life in a different life. Soon after he arrives in Horton's Bay, he runs into an old playmate, Grace Quinlan, who has blossomed during the year. Thus begins young Ernie's great struggle with guilt and his conscience.
Felix and Eve    by Diane DeVillers
Price: $2.99 USD. 28950 words. Published on September 6, 2012. .

Felix and Eve are two people from very different generations that live together for the summer. The elderly Felix hires Eve to be a live-in caregiver while he recovers from heart bi-pass surgery. Eve is a self reliant vagabond with counterculture values who lives in the moment while Felix is an unyielding man who is set in his ways. The story takes place in the Oregon coast town of Gold Beach.
On the Road to West Egg: The Volatile Relationship of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald    by BookCaps
Price: $2.99 USD. 10370 words. Published on October 9, 2012. .

Glamour, alcohol, reckless and carefree behavior--all themes of a great F. Scott Fitzgerald novel? Yes. But, in the case of Fitzgerald, fiction imitates life. Fitzgerald's marriage to Zelda was volatile from the start--it was plagued by alcohol abuse, debt, and mental illness. "The Great Gatsby" may be Fitzgerald's most read story, but his most fascinating story was his relationship to Zelda Fit
Baby Grand: The Beginning    by Bill Ellingsen
Price: Free! 88780 words. Published on October 17, 2012. .

A teenager has to summer in rural Wisconsin with grandparents he barely knows. His grandfather keeps them busy by restoring an antique race car like the one his dishonored father drove in the 1927 Indianapolis 500, believing it might redeem the old racer. Then the beautiful pianist next door gets in on the action. Also see Baby Grand II: The Conspiracy and Baby Grand III: The Big Time
Smokers Are The New Jews    by Carter Rydyr
Price: Free! 520 words. Published by Storm Publishing  on November 9, 2012. .

Prohibition returns, but this time it’s for cigarettes.
On the Road to Winterhaven    by Geoff Nolan
Price: $3.68 USD. 85670 words. Published on November 19, 2012. .

Christmas 1928. A mysterious man emerges from a blizzard and arrives at the hopeless town of Winterhaven. When he tries to rekindle lost hope, change the lives of the townsfolk and turn around the fortunes of the town, one stubborn problem remains: greed. Only the mysterious man can stand in greed’s way and save Winterhaven from eternal despair…
The Spyglass Project    by Frankie Astuto
Price: $4.99 USD. 75100 words. Published on January 1, 2013. .

Five former military men led by Michael Malone reunite as the Secret Six to discern a connection between the rise of Adolf Hitler and money flowing into Germany. The Spyglass Project takes them into Chicago’s criminal underworld. Among Michael's weapons, a beautiful Italian woman linked to the Mafia and the double-agent who once betrayed him.
Cutter and Alinea    by Oren Black
Price: $2.99 USD. 39280 words. Published on March 16, 2013. .

A sleazy gin joint is an unlikely backdrop for two people to fall in love. But it’s a likely setting for a crime that tears their world apart. From the seedy underworld of Prohibition Chicago to the brutal plains of West Texas, CUTTER AND ALINEA is a tragedy set in a world of ruthless outlaws and crooked cops, where the consequences of revenge are more perilous than two lovers could have imagined.