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Discovery    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6880 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on June 26, 2010. .

Pita Cardenas has taken the case of her life. The only attorney in small Rio Gordo, she has decided to fight the biggest railroad company in the state to get compensation for the widow of a man who may have raced a train. He’s guilty—or is he? A Shamus Award nominee by this bestselling writer.
Dead on the Island    by Bill Crider
Price: $2.99 USD. 60500 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on January 31, 2011. .

PI Truman Smith has become a loner after failing to find his sister Jan during a recent search of Galveston Island. He jogs on the Seawall, plays with his cat, and reads lots of Faulkner books. Then an old high school football buddy, Dino, asks him to find a young girl named Sharon. As Tru begins his investigation, dead bodies begin to appear and Tru himself wrapped up in a dark mystery.
Scenarios - A Collection of Nameless Detective Stories    by Bill  Pronzini
Price: $3.99 USD. 82540 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 8, 2012. .

A Shamus Award-winning Author Few characters have the loyal readership of Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective." The fourteen stories in this collection span his entire thirty-five-year life on the printed page. They include "It's a Lousy World," where Nameless proves that a friend did not commit the crime he was accused of; "Dead Man's Slough" and many others.