I have no idea who Joe Clifford Faust is. However,
Wikipedia does, and apparently he was printed by Del Rey/Ballantine and Bantam Spectra's sf lines during the 80s and offers an sf murder mystery which is apparently some kind of minor classic in the sf murder mystery subfield.
For those who don't read sf murder mysteries, we've also got some backlist romance and some established author self-pubs for fantasy & litfic.
A Death of Honor by Joe Clifford Faust was originally released in hardcover in 1987 by Del Rey.
It has apparently been selected as a recommended read by various sf groups since then, and the author now includes the original unpublished ending and a few other extras.
Free (with DRM) for who knows how long @ Amazon
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THE GIRL WAS SPRAWLED OUT ON THE FLOOR IN THE LIVING ROOM OF HIS APARTMENT.
So begins Joe Clifford Faust's classic science fiction mystery, which has thrilled both SF and non-SF readers since its release nearly 25 years ago. Originally published as a paperback original by Del Rey Books, Honor was also a main selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, where it was given a generic cover and enjoyed crossover sales through the Mystery Guild Book Club. It was also chosen as a Recommended Read in the Crime and Punishment category by the Science Fiction Museum.
The novel takes place in an alternate future where a crumbling United States is one of the few nations left to have fended off Soviet domination. It tells the story of seven days in the life of D.A. Payne, a bioengineer who finds the naked corpse of a woman in his apartment and is compelled to investigate her murder. As he digs deeper into the woman's identity and the cause of her death, he learns things about himself and his world that will conspire to change his life forever.
The electronic editions of Honor also contain bonus material: the novel's original ending - a 2,000 word epilog that was cut before publication - along with an essay from the author telling how it came to be chopped.
The rest of today's quick KDP exclusive-or-else slushpile dip. This is everyone I recognized immediately or had time and inclination to check out. Not sorted because I've run out of time. Link broken==search is your friend. Enjoy, if you spot anything you think you might like.
R. Thomas Riley (
ISFDB entry) offers his 2009 Apex-small-pressed collection:
The Monster Within Idea
Lono Waiwaiole offers a noir novel of a man tracking down his daughter's killer, St. Martin's Press/Minotaur-hardcovered in 2003:
Wiley's Lament
This anthology has stories from Max Allan Collins, Dave Zeltserman, and a few of our fellow Mr member authors:
Favorite Kills (Top Suspense Anthologies)
Newbie writer Carole Gill, who has had two short stories published in anthologies (
ISFDB entry), offers a collection of 4 vampire shorts:
Gift of Blood
Cheryl Potter offers her historical supernatural drama hardcovered by UK publisher Robert Hale in 1997:
The Witch's Son (The Witch Trilogy)
Previously-featured suspense and romance writer Anne Frasier/Theresa Weir writing under the latter name offers a 1994-paperbacked by Fanfare novel which she says was an experimental hybrid of romance and women's fiction which didn't sell all that well due to falling between the known genres and not really appealing to the targeted romance audience:
One Fine Day She also offers its 1991-Bantam-hardcovered prequel which is apparently vaguely inspired by Flowers for Algernon (an sf classic, if you don't already know):
Forever
Nina Bruhn returns with a 2001-Harlequin Silhouette cowboy romance:
Warrior's Bride
Berkley-published Nikita Black offers the self-explanatory:
Cajun Hot (steamy erotic romance with hot Cajun hero)
Random House/HarperCollins-hardcovered Frank Delaney apparently really is a NY Times bestselling author. He offers two original lit-fic fairy-tale fables written especially for e-book release to tie-in and promote said NY Times bestselling novels:
The Druid and:
The Girl Who Lived on The Moon
Another freebie issue of the e-magazine:
Shock Totem 2: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted
TV show tie-in writer and fellow MR member author Lee Goldberg offers a crime thriller action/adventure novella which the blurb likens to Dirty Harry:
McGrave
Baen-published Sarah A. Hoyt offers a collection of her short stories:
Five Tomorrows
Jim Baen's Universe-published Amber D. Sistla offers another short:
The Opposite of Defeating (Break Bites)
ISFDB-ed Derek Gunn featured yesterday offers:
A Prelude to the Apocalypse (Vampire Apocalypse)
Nebula Award winner Eric James Stone offers a short story published in Analog:
The Final Element
Doreen Owens Malek repeats her Roman historical romance 1996-Zebra paperbacked:
The Lion and the Lark
Australian sf/fantasy writer and fellow MR member author Patty Jansen repeats her short:
His Name in Lights
Michael Powell and Juergen Horn offer another illustrated travelogue collected from their travel blog:
For 91 Days in Buenos Aires