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	Le naufragé sibérien	by Serge Genest Sep. 08, 2010	$6.00	44121 words	Sample 25%
	Un jeune garçon de douze ans est retrouvé sain et sauf sur les lieux d’un attentat meurtrier, en plein cœur de Londres. Il aurait normalement dû mourir. Pourquoi est-il encore en vie et qui sont ceux qui le poursuivent sans relâche? Quel est le lien entre ce mystérieux garçon et le cataclysme qui a frappé la Sibérie en 1908?
	The Lady in the Loch	by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Sep. 01, 2010	$5.99	75943 words	Sample 25%
	As sheriff of Edinburgh, budding author, Walter Scott, makes a grisly discovery. Bones, bodies, and parts of bodies are found on the banks of the half-frozen loch. At first, Scott assumes the horror is the work of grave robbers. Then living women begin to go missing. A young gypsy, Midge Margret, makes the vanishings the talk of the town, telling of a mysterious black coach in the forest.
	Blood Games	by Lee Killough Sep. 01, 2010	$4.99	91939 words	Sample 25%
	Vampire Garreth Mikaelian thought he had his existence all arranged. He is comfortably settled in a town where, his nature unknown to those around him, he works the night shift as a police officer. His blood comes in bottles. He has a routine and friends. But that peace is shattered when his fellow officer and sometime lover Maggie Lebekov is killed by a lethal trio playing escalating blood games
	Chicago Squeeze	by JR Chase Aug. 31, 2010	$3.99	56163 words	Sample 20%
	When the youngest daughter of one of Chicago's oldest industrial families is found dead of an overdose, Jack Riley is hired to investigate. He soon discovers that the mansions Gold Coast mask a grisly underbelly of sex, drugs and dirty money in Chicago high society. As Jack catches the scent of a killer, he must confront the dark shadows of his own life or lose everything he has left.
	Starting Over	by Tor Richardson Aug. 30, 2010	$0.99	5583 words	Sample 50%
	Fred Turner lives the good life -- at your expense. With stolen credit cards and borrowed identities, he rides the highest lifestyle. But never for too long. Tricking others into stealing his stolen cards, he leaves them to face the law while he moves on, starting over with his next unknowing victim. It's always the perfect crime. Until the day he steals the wrong identity.
	White and black	by Fernando Trujillo Aug. 29, 2010	$0.99	95676 words	Sample 30%
	A man has been murdered. He is blond, blue-eyed and is wearing a white suit. His surname is White. The murdered man is dark, black-eyed and his suit is black...the same as his surname. And, as if that isn't enough, they look like perfect twins except for the details of eye colour and complexion. Two policemen are in charge of the hottest crime in London...
	Goshawks	by Gary Headlee Aug. 29, 2010	$3.95	59896 words	Sample 4%
	Something strange is happening in the small town of Crump, people missing. Jodi Benton vanishes without a trace. Her brother George and new love Tim Wingo search for answers. It all seems to be related to the mesa that towers above the town and a group of investors who are developing an advanced craft for space travel.
	Mikki's Song	by Judith Pittman Aug. 27, 2010	$2.99	50366 words	Sample 25%
	A fabulous mixture of Texas humor, heart-pounding action, sexy nuances and mounting suspense. There's plenty of excitement, plenty of intrigue, a local flavor to tickle the toughest of taste buds and a good serving of hot, steamy romance to titillate the senses. The second of Jude Morris' Indian Creek, Texas novels, Mikki's Song reads like a locomotive with non-stop action from beginning to end.
	Shadows Are Deadly	by Judith Pittman Aug. 27, 2010	$2.99	65504 words	Sample 25%
	Welcome to the world of Indian Creek, Texas, where you'll meet some of the most amazing characters to ever grace the pages of fiction. Kelly McWinter, a retired cop trying to put a personal tragedy behind him. Kelly's dog, Jake, a German Shepherd who has fought some battles of his own and is still the best partner a man could ever hope for. Anna Davis, an old woman hiding from her past.
	Dating A Spy Isn't All Fun And Games	by Markee Anderson Aug. 26, 2010	$0.99	99340 words	Sample 30%
	Ex-beauty contestant Lauren McDonald is thrust into the spy world when her boyfriend's job seeps into his personal life, making her the conduit for the transfer of information between enemies. She agrees to marry her boyfriend and become an agent, just to save her life and the U.S. Those dreams of a peaceful married life go right out the window when she finds out the true mission of the enemy.
	Saved By The Glass Slipper	by Markee Anderson Aug. 26, 2010	$0.99	63457 words	Sample 30%
	While being chased, Amy Watson meets Mark Dallas at the beach. He has bodyguards from his business—a gaming software company—and seems to know all the big shots in town. When a dead body is found in Amy’s apartment, it’s time that Mark sets the record straight, leading them on a scavenger hunt around the nation to find out why Amy’s being targeted.
	Dead Justice: Fall from Grace	by Jamison Manion Aug. 22, 2010	$2.99	79418 words	Sample 10%
	Finalist: 2010 Mensa creative urge writing contest. ~~~~~~ Tom Dillon, a detective with the Orlando police department, leads a very buttoned down life that completely unravels as he becomes physically, emotionally, and spiritually enmeshed with the murdering ghost with whom he shares a dark secret from the past.
	Milky White	by Faith Boscawen Aug. 20, 2010	$0.99	5199 words	Sample 20%
	Speed McNally—part time PI and photographer—has stumbled over the identity of the Lake Lanier Strangler. Speed finds himself the unwilling prisoner of the Strangler, and now he has to rely on a blind old man and his own wit to rescue himself, and his ex-wife, who just happened to be the one who tipped the Strangler off.
	"Final Decree"	by Ted Summerfield Aug. 08, 2010	$2.99	12079 words	Sample 12%
	Mix together a thieving wife, a naive husband, a beautiful female friend and you have a recipe for divorce. But the husband wants to know how it all happened, and why, and hires a detective to trace the events leading to his divorce. Follow John Bradstone, the detective, as he uncovers an odyssey of despair, treachery, and the truth behind the divorce.
	A Sudden Vengeance Waits	by Nik Morton Aug. 08, 2010	$3.99	58157 words	Sample 5%
	What conditions create a vigilante? Is it a personal tragedy, the loss of a loved one, or the frustration over the inadequacies of current law enforcement? In the broken Britain of today, the Knight family attends the funeral of Gran, killed by a burglar. But the Knights aren’t the only victims of unpunished criminals. There are plenty of others hurt and grieving in the English sout
	The Iowa Farmer's Wife	by Bill Beaman Aug. 07, 2010	$4.99	81610 words	Sample 25%
	The Iowa Farmer's Wife is a page-turning mystery about a murder that takes place in southwest Iowa. When a rural banker is brutally murdered, two DCI detectives travel to the scene of the crime to investigate. Little do these "city boys" know what their trip into the country will entail. The plot thickens as the investigation revolves around a young widow and her struggle to hold onto her farm.
	Relative Danger	by June Shaw Aug. 06, 2010	$2.99	86093 words
	Spunky widowed Cealie Gunther shows up early for her granddaughter Kat's graduation--only to learn graduation might not take place unless a custodian's death--accidental--or murder--is solved. With a deathbed promise to Kat's mother to watch Kat cross the stage for her diploma, Cealie becomes a substitute teacher there and finds fierce students and teachers. And someone aiming for her grandchild.
	The Trials of a Businessman, Culminating in His Second Coming of Age (Oh! Our Sweet, Sweet Land...)	by Joe Simpson Aug. 05, 2010	Free!	131133 words	Read a sample
	When the president of a furtive club falls terminally ill, the fight for the vacated position begins. These desperate events precede and continue over into the plot, itself a typical example of how this club implements its power, with the greatest strain being endured by one Edinburgh lawyer, our protagonist. Has the end come for the aristocratic club's antiquated approach to the world's land?
	Blanco y negro	by Fernando Trujillo Aug. 05, 2010	$0.99	117857 words	Sample 20%
	El caso más excepcional de Londres comienza cuando dos hombres luchan hasta la muerte. Uno es rubio, de ojos azules y viste de blanco; el otro es moreno, de ojos oscuros y viste de negro. Por lo demás, son físicamente idénticos. Sus apellidos son White y Black respectivamente. Dos policías descubrirán que los dos dos bandos están combatiendo por toda la ciudad y no es la primera vez.
	No way to murder a Lady	by Thomas Kennedy Aug. 03, 2010	$0.99	5022 words	Sample 50%
	“They way I see it, either I do you for the two murders, or you come over on to my side.” “What side is that?” “The wild side.” He laughs and orders another but I stick with the rock shandy. “I’m in,” I say. “I don’t see a lot of options.” A former police colleague has you over a barrel. But he wants something...
	The Lost Son	by Eric Leclere Aug. 03, 2010	$3.99	155265 words	Sample 10%
	London. Xavier Lombard finds out that before vanishing Leonard Spitz had got himself involved with people who get up in the morning to peddle children for a living. A gripping and suspenseful read, this first novel by Eric Leclere is also the first of the Xavier Lombard detective series. It was turned into a movie starring Daniel Auteuil and Nastassja Kinski in 1999.
	Remix	by Lexi Revellian Aug. 02, 2010	$2.99	75736 words	Sample 50%
	Caz Tallis restores rocking horses in her London workshop. When shabby but charismatic Joe and his dog turn up on her roof terrace, she is reluctantly drawn into investigating a rock star’s murder from three years before – an unsolved case the police have closed. Somebody is prepared to kill to prevent it being reopened – and is Caz's judgment clouding as she falls in love?
	Shattered Lens, Catherine Winter, Private Investigator	by Linda Pendleton Aug. 01, 2010	$8.99	56182 words	Sample 25%
	The stalking of two young professional print models leads private investigator Catherine Winter into the dark and dirty shadows of Hollywood's entertainment elite. Portraits of these people become distorted and out of focus as murder, pornography, illicit drugs, and blackmail, color the view while Catherine searches for truth and justice.
	Copp On Ice, A Joe Copp Thriller	by Don Pendleton Aug. 01, 2010	$6.99	57825 words	Sample 20%
	PI Joe Copp takes on the world of corruption within a police force gone bad. Copp finds himself on an icy, downhill trail of murder, sex, drugs, and dirty politics and the badge he wears offers little protection against evil forces of corrupt lawmakers and police officers. A knockout punch by master story-teller Don Pendleton, creator of The Executioner: Mack Bolan series of action/adventure.
	Corporatocracy Rules	by Joan Francis Aug. 01, 2010	$8.95	72589 words	Sample 10%
	Hired by corporate titan Maude McCollvoy, PI Diana Hunter finds herself in world where Corporate power trumps the law and Corporatocracy Rules. Though she uncovers crimes of secret foreign investment, hidden money and tax fraud she can find no legal remedy. With her life on the line, she and associate Nelson Langly must take extraordinary measures to find justice.
	Silent Coup	by Joan Francis Aug. 01, 2010	$8.95	118445 words	Sample 10%
	When private investigator Diana Hunter inherits her Uncle Bennett’s hidden fortune, she also gets his stash of secret files and his enemies. Branded a terrorist suspect under Patriot Act rules and pursued by a shadow organization, Diana is legally defenseless. She realizes she can only save herself by learning about Bennett's double life which began in Germany when Hitler seized power in 1933.
	Reversal	by Paul Levine Aug. 01, 2010	$3.59	141495 words	Sample 12%
	Justice Sam Truitt comes to the Supreme Court with high ideals. Lisa Fremont, his stunning law clerk, is under orders to win his vote in a plane crash case by seduction and extortion. If she fails, she’ll be killed. Truitt, who's always followed the rules, and Lisa, who never has, must battle those who live by no law at all. “A relentlessly entertaining summer read." -New York Daily News
	Old Poison	by Joan Francis Aug. 01, 2010	$8.95	77357 words	Sample 10%
	When environmentalist Evelyn Lilac is murdered, Private investigator Diana Hunter begins a dangerous journey from California to New Mexico and finally to the Costa Rican rain forest. Her investigation turns up secrets regarding global warming, corporate greed, and a deadly alternative fuel which could make the Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars.
	Bye Bye Baby	by Allan Guthrie Aug. 01, 2010	$2.99	18396 words	Sample 50%
	When a seven-year-old boy disappears after school, the case is handed to Detective Frank Collins. He's been looking to lead a high-profile case for a while, and sets out determined to prove his worth. But the missing schoolboy is only a trigger for another crime. Someone is intent on exploiting the boy's grief-stricken mother. And they have plans for Frank Collins too.
	Copp For Hire, A Joe Copp Thriller	by Don Pendleton Jul. 31, 2010	$6.99	51088 words	Sample 20%
	Tough, cagey, ex-cop turned private eye, Joe Copp, descends into the labyrinth of forbidden sex, corrupt politics, and multiple murders. The fast moving story takes Joe Copp to the rough and tumble, down and dirty, anything-goes underbelly of Los Angeles and on to the deadly vice pits of Honolulu’s Chinatown. Don Pendleton, creator of The Executioner, Mack Bolan Action Adventure Series.
	Spoilt	by Joanne Ellis Jul. 31, 2010	$2.99	71092 words	Sample 25%
	A sadistic killer is stalking the streets, carving his hatred into the bodies of beautiful, young women. The murders are stirring up bad memories for Detective Lucas Hudson, as he struggles to remain focused - juggling the horrors of today with horrors from the past. When Chelsea Summerville's best friend goes missing, she's unwillingly dragged into the race to stop the killer.
	Santa's Snack	by Dean Wesley Smith Jul. 30, 2010	$0.99	2916 words	Sample 30%
	A mystery story about a grown man, an attorney, alone on Christmas Eve, who can’t allow himself to believe in Santa Claus. But someone keeps eating the cookies. Every year. Just like it happened when he was a kid. Maybe Santa Claus really does exist. Or maybe, just maybe, all this skeptic needs to understand is where the jolly fat man lives.
	Golden Knight (Book 2 in the Ben Knight PI Series)	by Tim Myers Jul. 30, 2010	$2.99	51659 words	Sample 25%
	Private Detective Ben Knight is approached by a woman who claims someone is trying to kill her. At first he’s skeptical about her claims, but as the attempts escalate, Ben begins his search in earnest. When the would-be killer turns his attention to Ben, he must solve the case, or be another victim himself.
	Quarter Nude, in Blue (Book 1 in the Ben Knight PI Series)	by Tim Myers Jul. 30, 2010	$2.99	46397 words	Sample 25%
	Ben Knight is a private detective who is haunted by the abduction and death of his daughter. When Tom and Sheila Weston ask him to find their daughter Angel, Ben is flooded with memories of his own lost child. As he searches for Angel, Ben is pulled back into his own past, and the loss he will never get over.
	A Family of Strangers	by Tim Myers Jul. 30, 2010	$2.99	68611 words	Sample 25%
	In a few hours, Joshua Vance’s life is turned upside down. His proposal is turned down, he’s evicted, and he learns that a cousin he hasn’t seen in many years is in the hospital dying. Her last request is to see him. On a whim, Josh leaves everything behind and sets out to start a new life for himself.
	The Tree Goddess: a novel of mystery and macabre	by Tom Raimbault Jul. 30, 2010	$3.99	120402 words	Sample 20%
	Founded in the 1830s, the fictional town of Mapleview has the reputation of being blanketed by a sentience of paranormal activity and urban legends. The town is suddenly plagued by a series of mysterious disappearances; and although the Mapleview police have its most experienced detectives assigned to the case, they can provide no answers. Could it be the dark, centuries-old history of Mapleview?
	THE LAST TESTIMONY	by dojong kim Jul. 30, 2010	$3.99	59949 words	Sample 10%
	This is a Sad Story of a woman who loved a serial killer from japan. Some mystery and detective novel. It took about 10 years to write this novel.
	Bearing False Witness	by Merrill Heath Jul. 29, 2010	$2.99	41315 words	Sample 40%
	A Marshal with WITSEC asks PI Alec Stover to help him locate a missing witness. But when the mafia comes looking for payback Alec gets caught in the middle and quickly learns nothing is as simple as it seems with this case...and no one can be trusted. Alec teams up with Homicide Detective Emma Radcliffe, but can they find their man before any innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire?
	Pudgygate	by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Jul. 28, 2010	$0.99	6493 words	Sample 30%
	Imagine a dinner party in a English country manor with an American cook named Bubba making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, waiters from Cal Tech, British royalty, a cat named Pudgy, and a thief. Honestly, what could go wrong?
	The Weight of Glass	by Stuart Heatherington Jul. 28, 2010	$2.99	91246 words	Sample 50%
	Lee Macon can’t forget waking up inside a coffin or the memory of the man who put him there. It’s a secret he’s kept from his sister, Amy, for 30 years. But in the wake of their youngest sister’s death, Amy needs the truth more than ever, if not the answers for her rape. Together they will dig though the bones of memory, solving the mystery of a family whose past is buried in violence.
	Clicking Sticks	by Dean Wesley Smith Jul. 26, 2010	$0.99	3269 words	Sample 30%
	When the girl next door, the girl you’ve had a crush on for years, comes to you for help, you know things have changed and just maybe you might have a dream come true. But sometimes dreams just aren’t what they are built up to be. A mystery short story by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.
	Cut Shot	by John R. Corrigan Jul. 25, 2010	$0.99	61662 words
	...riveting, characters you care about, well conceived, gracefully presented. - Robert B. Parker. Jack Austin is engaged, making a living, still believes in the PGA Tour’s integrity. Then Hutch Gainer reveals a gambling ring. In this golf mystery, Jack enters the underworld to prevent scandal but finds murder and a contract on his life. .
	Broken Dreams - Free six chapter sample eBook	by Nick Quantrill Jul. 25, 2010	Free!	18814 words	Read a sample
	Joe Geraghty, Private Investigator, is used to struggling from one case to the next, barely making the rent on his small office in the Old Town of Hull. Invited by a local businessman to investigate a member of his staff's absenteeism, it's the kind of surveillance work that Geraghty and his small team have performed countless times...
	Bedderhoff Dead	by Mark Wolfgang Jul. 25, 2010	$2.99	102358 words	Sample 20%
	"Bedderhoff Dead" is the first of a series of Yoopernatural Mysteries, which take place in Deathe, a dead-end town in Michigan's haunted Upper Peninsula. Michigan State Police Trooper Alice Louise Dubose is sent there to investigate the murder of a teacher at Cavendish Community College. Alice already hates the U.P., now she's about to learn just how strange Deathe and its residents really are
	Almost Gone	by Stan Richards Jul. 25, 2010	$3.95	54380 words	Sample 25%
	With this eerie, suspenseful, and heart-wrenching debut novel, Stan Richards provides shocking twists to familiar roman noir themes. Obsessed that he might have played a role in her brutal murder, Detective Chuck Johnson reopens the unsolved case and ventures into the dark oedipal depths of his childhood. But he soon learns that the past is not what it seems to be.
	The Copycat Didn't Have Nine Lives	by A. J. Pompano Jul. 24, 2010	$0.99	3345 words	Sample 15%
	This is a Quincy Lazzaro Mystery short story. When Quincy is summoned to his writer’s group because one of the members has died, he discovers that murder is more than fiction in this group.
	A Death in Key Largo	by Fred Zackel Jul. 24, 2010	$2.99	24623 words	Sample 10%
	A Florida businessman and his girlfriend plan to murder his wife. But the man they hire wants to look around first. Then things go wrong. dead wrong. From the author of COCAINE AND BLUE EYES, MURDER IN WAIKIKI, and other fine works of fiction.
	Snake River Secret, a Mary MacIntosh novel	by Maureen Meehan Aplin Jul. 24, 2010	$4.99	87238 words	Sample 10%
	When Mary MacIntosh’s legal secretary goes missing, a frantic search through the white water torrents of the Snake River reveals clues a manic drug dealer leaves behind. Ceremonial Shoshone sweat lodge chants lead Mac to the secret Popo Agie cave where she unburies an unimaginable web of conspiracy shocking enough to rip apart long-time family ties in this thrilling and epically haunting novel.
	Satan's School for Scandal	by Jack Bates Jul. 24, 2010	$1.79	9393 words	Sample 10%
	When her husband’s political aspirations take on a sinister overtone, socialite and politician Victoria Buckingham consults Private Investigator Harry Landers, hoping to unlock the mystery of her husband’s erratic behavior. Is he planning her demise with a little assistance from the dark side; or, has the stress of her own political campaign begun to affect her rationale?
	Bullets Off-Broadway	by Wayne Zurl Jul. 24, 2010	$1.79	10306 words	Sample 10%
	Prospect City Councilman Danny Swope had two bad habits. He drank too much and he beat his wife. Throw in an overbearing personality, and Police Chief Sam Jenkins isn't surprised when Danny is found shot to death. Jenkins' investigation takes him into the world of cowboy action shooters and his own deadly fast draw contest.