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The Safe House | by Gil Hardwick Feb. 07, 2012 | $2.49 | 34990 words | Sample 10% |
| Alex and his Aboriginal friend-brother Peter run into new friends when the arrive in the West to attend University. They meet Nicolas with his two wives and one husband, the Asperger's kid too handsome for his own good, but something is not right. | |||||
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Deck of Lies, Book 1: Justice | by Jade Varden Feb. 07, 2012 | $0.99 | 62481 words | Sample 20% |
| When you build an entire life on a foundation of lies, it only takes one truth for the whole thing to come crashing down. I never invited the truth in. I never went searching for it. I never had any reason to suspect that the two people I loved most were dishonest with me every second of every day. | |||||
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Vanish (Book One) | by Sonny Daise Feb. 06, 2012 | $1.99 | 27730 words | Sample 10% |
| Scarlett Summers has had a rough few months. She just got out of Meadowbrook mental hospital for a crime she had nothing to do with—her best friend Grace’s disappearance. No matter how hard she tries she can’t get that night out of her head, at least the parts she remembers. | |||||
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Sisters in Mystery | by Al Sarrantonio Jan. 28, 2012 | $2.99 | 24076 words | Sample 20% |
| For lovers of the Nancy Drew mysteries, here she is -- times four! Four modern-day Little Women, each with her own charms and talents, solve mysteries in the beautiful New Jersey shore town of Ocean City. In "The Case of the Missing Script," a famously quirky movie director finds himself in a tight spot, and only the Sheridan sisters, Meg, Biz (The Brain), Ames and Josie. | |||||
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Testing the Waters | by Cathy and Patty Jan. 26, 2012 | $2.99 | 45188 words | Sample 20% |
| Reid Williams starts science camp in the Smokey Mountains, anticipating the usual summer experience. Before the session ends, it becomes a life changing one filled with questionable actions. She relies on her ESP, a ghost, and a dyslexic camper to reveal a past crime and the answers to her questions. | |||||
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Party Girl Crashes the Rapture | by M.E. Purfield Jan. 26, 2012 | $3.99 | 65988 words | Sample 10% |
| A novel of a girl in trouble. | |||||
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Mara Louis; Girl of Mystery | by Timothy Paterson Jan. 23, 2012 | $0.99 | 104419 words | Sample 50% |
| Mara Louis is a very remarkable girl. She has the ability to solve mysteries. Sometimes the mysteries find her, and sometimes they come to her in her dreams, through a series of puzzles, that she must put together. | |||||
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The Prisoner | by J David Bethel Jan. 21, 2012 | $1.00 | 4189 words | Sample 10% |
| A small town reacts to the return of a mass murderer en route to serve his life sentence. Residents react in strange ways, including his younger brother who witnessed the murder of his family. | |||||
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The Legend of Burial Island - the third Bean and Ab mystery | by David Crossman Jan. 19, 2012 | $0.99 | 95060 words | Sample 20% |
| “Readers will not be able to put down this fast-paced mystery that doesn’t slow down until the neat conclusion.
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The Mystery of the Black Moriah - the second Bean and Ab mystery | by David Crossman Jan. 19, 2012 | $0.99 | 82538 words | Sample 33% |
| “This multilayered mystery holds readers’ attention well. Interesting characters, a fast-moving plot, and a satisfying and surprising ending make it a quick read. An author’s note includes information about the legend of the Black Moriah, the people, and the island in Maine that inspired this story.†School Library Journal | |||||
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The Secret of the Missing Grave - the first Bean and Ab mystery | by David Crossman Jan. 19, 2012 | $0.99 | 62570 words | Sample 33% |
| “This well-structured tale never loses momentum. The carefully orchestrated chapters and the fast pace will hold children’s attention throughout.†School Library Journal / “Impossible-to-put-down Maine mystery. Suspense builds neatly and the ending is richly satisfying.†Bangor Daily News, Sunday / “Secret of the Missing Grave is a gripping and well-imagined adventure mystery." The Horn Book | |||||
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Dee Days | by Lora Richards Jan. 16, 2012 | $4.50 | 58794 words | Sample 20% |
| Dee Days with complimentary copy of book two: Dee Nights An abandoned arena and an unsolved mystery leaves Deedee wondering if there really is such a thing as ghosts. | |||||
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The Mystery of Belle Jardin | by Elizabeth Decker Jan. 12, 2012 | $0.99 | 49825 words | Sample 20% |
| For twins Amanda and Tyler exploring with their sister Francesca and her friend Sally is always a great adventure. But when they stumble upon an old mansion sitting on a hill, little do they realize the secrets it contains. A hundred years ago something terrible happened. Now, every ten years time reverses and there is a chance to right the wrong. Will they have the courage to see it through? | |||||
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The Secret of Eastman Springs | by Costa Carol Jan. 09, 2012 | $2.99 | 37145 words | Sample 20% |
| Sara, a shy teenager, makes a bargain with Lacey, a restless spirit who promises to help Sara win the affections of a special boy. In exchange, Sara must uncover the secrets that led to Lacey’s disappearance eighteen years earlier. Too late, Sara realizes that Lacey’s darkest secret may destroy the people Sara loves. | |||||
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Already Gone (Young Adult Mystery Thriller) | by Christopher Fulbright Jan. 06, 2012 | $0.99 | 45095 words | Sample 15% |
| Meet Mitchell Chase, a 16-year-old hard case who pays his dad rent in exchange for being treated as an adult. Unfortunately, he’s having a tough time of it—Mitchell drinks too much, fights too much, he’s broke, and he’s got girl problems like a dog’s got fleas. | |||||
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The Pineville Heist | by Lee Chambers Jan. 05, 2012 | $0.99 | 39848 words | Sample 30% |
| Seventeen year old Aaron Stevens stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. It doesn’t take long for one of the psychotic robbers to show up. In the locked down school Aaron and his teacher are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money back. | |||||
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TOR Assassin Hunter | by Billy Bob Buttons Jan. 02, 2012 | $0.99 | 42606 words | Sample 50% |
| TOR ASSASSIN HUNTER is the first book in the TOR TRILOGY, the turbulent story of a Swedish mercenary infested by the spirit of Skufsi Tennur, the most sinister, most unholy werewolf of the Hamrammr tribe. | |||||
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A Reunion Story | by Christy Quinn Dec. 20, 2011 | Free! | 12685 words | Read a sample |
| A Reunion Story follows Sam Lancey as he returns home for his 10-year high school reunion. He finds a mysterious list of "to-dos" that remind him who he used to be, and point him in the direction of who he is today. | |||||
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Chronovisixation II: Song of Strings | by Daniel Cowan Dec. 20, 2011 | $2.99 | 59425 words | Sample 20% |
| After releasing the ghost of Christine and removing the curse off of Bridget, Kevin attempts to go back to his normal life. His normal is interrupt though when his Chronovisixation goes haywire and lets him see 6 months into the future, revealing the end of the world just as Seraxus assumed. While Kevin tries to find an ancient order to help stop it, the C.A.C begins investigation of the cult. | |||||
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The Rena Files | by Lyza Ledo Dec. 13, 2011 | $0.99 | 54809 words | Sample 20% |
| Rena Solis is a girl like no other. Although she tries her best to be normal she just can't ignore that Solis instinct. While dealing with some of the most complicated situations, Rena has come in contact with in her 16 years she also falls into solving a murder with her best friend's ex boyfriend. Will she figure out who's killing the students in her class before they come after her too? | |||||
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Final Justice | by Lynn Henderson Dec. 13, 2011 | $7.99 | 44692 words | Sample 15% |
| When a long awaited holiday with her estranged father turns deadly 17-year-old Katie must solve a year-old murder to save herself and her new friends from the same fate. | |||||
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After Burn | by Sherry D. Ficklin Dec. 12, 2011 | $2.99 | 48173 words | Sample 25% |
| Reece Barnet and her father have just relocated to sunny North Carolina, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. Just as Reece is starting to fit in, a rash of bomb threats rock's her fathers experimental aircraft squadron. When the authorities track the threats to Reece's school, she decides to do some investigating of her own. Can she uncover the shocking truth of the person behind it all? | |||||
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Overwrite (The 01:23 Bardo, book 2) | by Ryan O'Riordan Dec. 09, 2011 | $2.99 | 102815 words | Sample 20% |
| Rebecca Conner starts to secretly investigate why the world is changing without anyone realising and what connection a strange, violent cult have to it – all while trying to convince everyone she is just an ordinary girl. With Freddie refusing to acknowledge her, she finds herself drawn to the new boy, Euan Tate, but how long can she keep her secrets from him? | |||||
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Stealing the Wild | by Beth Hodder Dec. 06, 2011 | $2.99 | 51392 words | Sample 20% |
| Jessie Scott, 12, new friends Will and Allie, and Jessie's dog, Oriole, unwittingly hunt for whoever is poaching wildlife near the Schafer Meadows Ranger Station in Montana's Great Bear Wilderness. People come and go--four backpackers, a lone horseman, and a lost single backpacker. Suspicion surrounds each of them as the three young friends and Oriole get pulled deeper into the mystery. | |||||
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The Ferret Has Landed | by Nell Peters Dec. 01, 2011 | $0.99 | 63908 words | Sample 10% |
| Sebastian Avon is newly home from university when he falls in lust with talentless interior designer Prudence Dent. Though his parents and four brothers see through her, Sebastian is way too gormless to catch on. Prudence is dangerously not what she seems and neither are new neighbours the Fanshaw-Browns - they all have a past that will come back to haunt them...and the Avon family. | |||||
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A Course in Murder | by Elizabeth Chater Nov. 28, 2011 | $0.99 | 47213 words | Sample 20% |
| After college student Button Gwinnett witnesses a murder, she must clear her name and reveal the killer, before she becomes the next victim! | |||||
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Drake Dallas Collection | by N.C. Pennington Nov. 26, 2011 | $9.99 | 98301 words | Sample 20% |
| Omnibus collection of the first 4 Drake Dallas books. Includes Full Moon Attack, Do Not Inhale, Dark Angel, and Resurrection. | |||||
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Resurrection: A Drake Dallas Adventure | by N.C. Pennington Nov. 26, 2011 | $2.99 | 37740 words | Sample 35% |
| Faced with the choice of living forever buried in the witness protection program (separated forever from family and friends) or taking on the Russian secret police, the FSB, Drake Dallas attempts the impossible—to single-handedly cripple the FSB. | |||||
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Sandy Beach and the Mysterious Book | by Sheri Ochs Nov. 25, 2011 | $2.99 | 37201 words | Sample 20% |
| Thirteen-year-old Sandy's attempts to understand two strangers’ lies about a mysterious book lead her headlong into the doghouse (literally). Her amateur sleuthing exposes their connection to an international dog smuggling ring. With the help of her best friend, Forrest, she saves all the pedigreed dogs in Rosa Beach from dognapping, but can she save herself when the two men finally snatch her? | |||||
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Finally Home | by Elysabeth Eldering Nov. 23, 2011 | $3.99 | 55728 words | Sample 15% |
| It isn't just history against progress - it's daughter against father, or is it? Find out what secrets Kelly learns as she works to preserve an historic house in a small town that will help her bring her father Finally Home. | |||||
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The Last Great Case of the Sunny Hills Detective Agency | by Richard Alan Dickson Nov. 22, 2011 | $4.99 | 51301 words | Sample 20% |
| Jim and Jon Bruce enjoy a summer break filled with TV, music, videos, and online games in their bedroom sanctuary. It's the best summer ever... until they're framed for a brush fire. Grounded and banished from their room, they brave a world of fresh air and sunshine in search of clues to the true culprits. But can they find the bad guys, or will they remain banished from their room forever? | |||||
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Dark Angel | by N.C. Pennington Nov. 21, 2011 | $2.99 | 19889 words | Sample 35% |
| Three young teens investigate the growing interest in theistic Satanism in their small town. However, none are prepared for how it will end. On the Dark Holy Day, a human will be sacrificed, and one of them has been chosen as the offering. | |||||
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Something's Cooking at Dove Acres | by Will Zeilinger Nov. 20, 2011 | $2.99 | 57856 words | Sample 20% |
| Young Maddie Van der Wald inherits a mansion complete with rumors of buried treasure on an isolated part of Catalina Island. She will lose it if she doesn’t follow the terms of the will. Problems cause her friends and island residents turn against her. With nobody to help, Maddie wonders if her trip here was a boat ride to Hell. | |||||
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Overcast (The 01:23am Bardo, book 1) | by Ryan O'Riordan Nov. 16, 2011 | $0.99 | 89018 words | Sample 10% |
| Rebecca Conner imagines an entire world where she is a detective with her best friend and missing brother. When she is hit by a car, her escape world overwrites reality and she joins with a boy she doesn’t know in order to rescue her brother from the criminals she created. | |||||
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The Mystery on the Riverwalk Dock | by K.D. Gray Oct. 22, 2011 | $4.76 | 69913 words | Sample 10% |
| Who knew life would get so mixed up after Nick Callaway and his best friend fished part of a girl's head out of the river? Yeah, sure, everybody had a theory about where the long blond strands came from but nobody had any real answers. Not even the police. Nick and Jeff take up the case with ridiculously funny results. Perfect for all ages. | |||||
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Hand of Glory | by DeAnna Knippling Oct. 19, 2011 | $0.99 | 13061 words | Sample 20% |
| Like a thief in the digital night. Georgia’s brother didn’t hang himself for being gay or for being bullied about it. He was murdered over something that happened in the game—possibly over a mysterious hacker’s item called the Hand of Glory or Butler’s Candelabra, that lets you go anywhere, kill anyone, and steal anything. And now it belongs to Georgia. Strong language. | |||||
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Full Moon Attack | by N.C. Pennington Oct. 15, 2011 | Free! | 20754 words | Read a sample |
| At his uncle’s pizzeria, Drake Dallas watches three masked men destroy the store. The cops are clueless and Drake decides to investigate himself. Interviewing possible suspects gets him nowhere. Worse still, the trouble doesn’t stop for his uncle. An insurance mistake means he wasn’t covered for the damage, and he’ll lose everything unless Drake can uncover who really was behind it all. | |||||
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The Ghost Let Go | by Bruce Coville Oct. 14, 2011 | $0.99 | 7540 words | Sample 20% |
| Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her friend Chris Gurley find themselves stranded in an isolated old house on a country road. They're not surprised to find that the place is haunted - they've had a lot of experience with ghosts already. But can they help this ghost find peace in only one night? Funny, spooking, touching, this story features the popular heroines of THE GHOST IN THE THIRD ROW. | |||||
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The Archivist | by Robin Ballard Oct. 14, 2011 | $3.99 | 76142 words | Sample 15% |
| Egypt 1420 BC....The shadow of a dead man is summoned to the world of the living. On the moonlit banks of the Nile he watches as his grandson, Ahmose, is pursued by his own murderer. The boy is trapped, but soon all will be revealed –– who Ahmose's grandfather really was and the powerful, but all too dangerous document he had once archived. | |||||
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Who Holds The Torch for Eddie? A Search for the Elusive Poe Toaster | by Lisa Rene Reynolds Oct. 10, 2011 | $3.99 | 51119 words | Sample 20% |
| The popularity of Edgar Allan Poe and his writings did not peak until long after his death. What would happen if someone tried to find out the identity of the elusive “Poe Toaster†and expose it to the world? | |||||
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Pest Control Season 1, Episode 2: Running Bull Ants, Hidden Dragonflies or "The Case of the Painful Pesticides" | by Jim Beck Oct. 06, 2011 | $0.99 | 7837 words | Sample 20% |
| Joe is asked by police detectives to infiltrate the annual Running of the Bull Ants to help uncover how a drug smuggling ring is getting illegal pesticides across the border. While he's away, Seth takes Darla out to a fancy restaurant and comes face to face with her dirty little secret of why her transformation into a butterfly has not yet taken place. | |||||
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Pest Control Season 1, Episode 1: Meet the Critters or "The Case of the Headless Husband" | by Jim Beck Oct. 06, 2011 | $0.99 | 8519 words | Sample 15% |
| Still in therapy after having his wings broken by mob boss Benny the Nose, cockroach private eye Joe Periplaneta reopens his private eye business in an attempt to reclaim his life. His first case lands at his doorstep within minutes -- a praying mantis has been targeted as a suspect in her husband's murder when his head goes missing. | |||||
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Mayne Island Skeletons | by Amber Harvey Oct. 02, 2011 | $5.00 | 33023 words | Sample 20% |
| Mayne Island Skeletons is the 3rd in the Magda Mystery Series by Amber Harvey about Magda, the pre-teen sleuth and her pal Brent. Two mysteries must be solved: an ancient haunted house mystery, and the topical issue of proving that Brent is innocent of theft. Mayne Island Skeletons is a readable story for pre-teens and families; Magda is a memorable heroine children can relate to. | |||||
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The Last Chance Texaco | by Brent Hartinger Sep. 26, 2011 | $0.99 | 44239 words | Sample 20% |
| Parentless teen Lucy Pitt has finally ended up at a group home that really feels like home. Problem is, someone wants it shut down -- and Lucy has to find out who or she'll be sent away for good. In the tradition of Holes and The Outsiders, Hartinger writes about a subculture of teenagers many people would like to forget, in a novel as fast-paced and provocative as his first book, Geography Club. | |||||
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The Razor Files | by Tor Richardson Sep. 26, 2011 | $4.99 | 103028 words | Sample 20% |
| A billion-dollar insurance company fails and a young Axel Crane, accounting clerk, loses his job. Called back by regulators to help look for clues to a scheme that bled it dry, he stumbles into a world of shell companies and corporate intrigue where everyone who learns that secret dies from a fatal accident. Is he next? The Razor files: one perfect scam; one billion reasons to keep the secret. | |||||
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The Last Girl | by Laura Ellison Sep. 22, 2011 | Free! | 74701 words | Read a sample |
| Fifteen year old Sonya Neslund solves the mystery behind the vicious attacks of three of her classmates. | |||||
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Taylor Takes Charge | by Charles Utley Sep. 22, 2011 | $0.99 | 43824 words | Sample 10% |
| A Portland Court Adventure. Ben Glossop and Sarah Wilton, both 18, arrive at Portland Court Prep' School for Boys to be teacher and Under-Matron, only to find that it is run single-handedly by a charming and highly competent 12 year old called Taylor who will soon have to try to save the school's first girl pupil from being kidnapped by ruthless villains. | |||||
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The Obsidian Pebble | by RA Jones Sep. 19, 2011 | $2.99 | 94520 words | Sample 20% |
| Oz Chambers lives in a haunted house. His mother wants to move, but Oz knows the house holds huge secrets. When he and his friends hear ghostly footsteps, they search the house’s eerie attic. But what Oz hasn’t bargained for is that he’s not alone in his quest and that solving Penwurt’s puzzles will uncover a murky secret, and the chilling realisation that nothing is quite what it seems. | |||||
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Double Heart (A Will Lansa Mystery) | by Rob MacGregor Sep. 16, 2011 | $4.99 | 62125 words | Sample 20% |
| Will Lansa’s decision to write about Hopi witches for a high school term paper sets off a chain reaction of violence and murder. A legendary sorcerer, with the power to enslave the minds of others and even transform into a wolf, now seeks to destroy Will, body and soul. Will races headlong toward a final confrontation with the powerful witch known as Double Heart. | |||||
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Emma Bradford and the Mystery of Queen Tut | by Claudia Christian Sep. 15, 2011 | $2.99 | 20959 words | Sample 20% |
| With the memories of her mother's death fresh in her mind and her father too involved in his work, twelve year-old Emma Bradford, new to London from Manhattan, is driven to prove her theory that King Tut was actually a girl. | |||||