Best Mystery Books
11 stories
Project LOKI ① by AkoSiIbarra
AkoSiIbarra
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Join Lorelei and Loki as they unravel the threads of mystery, unveil the masks of evil intentions and put together the pieces of the puzzle in their adventures. Looking for VOLUME 2? Read it here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/220978938-project-loki-volume-2 Looking for VOLUME 3? Read it here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/101604752-project-loki-volume-3 ✓Published under PSICOM Publishing ✓Wattys 2016 Talk of the Town ✓Featured Mystery/Thriller story Cover Illustration by Chiire Dumo.
Joker in the Pack (Romantic Suspense, Completed, Watty Winner) by EliseNoble
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WATTY WINNER! Life has dealt city girl Olivia Porter a series of bad hands, but just as she's about to fold, fate intervenes and leaves her with a full house. Out of other options, she takes a gamble and moves to the countryside, hoping Lady Luck will follow along. Olivia's decision to embrace the single life is soon challenged by the arrival of local ace, Tate, and wild card, Warren, but little villages can hide big secrets and somebody thinks Olivia is holding the key to theirs. As her opponent ups his game, Olivia gets one last roll of the dice with the arrival of a leather-clad stranger. Will she hit the jackpot or go bust? Joker in the Pack is a standalone romantic suspense novel from the Blackwood UK series - no cliffhanger! FEATURED by Wattpad. Highest ranking: Mystery/Thriller #2
Hanover House: Kickoff to the Evelyn Talbot Chronicles by Brenda_Novak_NYT
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Welcome to Hanover House.... Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the antisocial mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager-by her high school boyfriend-she's determined to understand how someone she trusted so much could turn on her. So she's established a revolutionary new medical health center in the remote town of Hilltop, Alaska, where she studies the worst of the worst. But not everyone in Hilltop is excited to have Hanover House and its many serial killers in the area. Alaskan State Trooper, Sergeant Amarok, is one of them. And yet he can't help feeling bad about what Evelyn has been through. He's even attracted to her. Which is partly why he worries. He knows what could happen if one little thing goes wrong...
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Kelly Was Here (Read on FicFun now) by sorchared
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[Wattpad Featured Story] In the pleasant Town of Bedford, an old woman created herself a secret, a twisted and depraved way to get what she wanted. Kelly Anderson, a sweet girl with a wonderful family, seemed to be her latest prize in this perverse scheme. Trapped in a house of horrors, Kelly finds herself stuck with three other prisoners: a small boy, a strange girl, and a teenage boy that might just be her salvation or her downfall. Will Kelly's dad, the Chief of Police, finally string the clues together and find her? Or, will she be the next victim to fade away forever? Will she remain sane and never lose hope? What do her captors want from her? Go see for yourself who survives in the House that evil built. *** Featured Story (10/08/2017) Highest Rank #7 (20/08/2017) Inspired by an episode of criminal minds
His [The Cellar sequel] by natashapreston
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After escaping from police custody, Clover tries to piece his life back together. Determined to return to home and be reunited with his family, he has to first elude the country wide man hunt. Will he be able to resist his old ways in order to remain undetected? After hearing that Colin has escaped, Summer and Becca prepare themselves for the inevitable; Clover is coming back for them. Will the police and their families be enough to protect them? Clover's coming back and he's determined to prove to the girls; 'You'll always be mine'.
Confessions About Colton by colourlessness
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WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
The Adopted by Kuya_Soju
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(NOW A PUBLISHED BOOK UNDER LIFEBOOKS) A family that KILLS together, stays together.
Possessed by natashapreston
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Devon Barnes and her best friend, Dante Granger, have just finished University and move into the third story flat in a gorgeous, newly renovated town house. The excitement of her first place soon wears off for Devon as she notices some strange things happening in the flat. Dante brushes it off as stress from the move and Devon’s new job, so she finds herself trying to work out what is happening alone. With only a two initials scribbled on a piece of paper, she sets out to find who ZJ and SM are. None of the neighbours seem to want to discuss the previous tenants, but when Devon overhears them gossiping about ‘poor Spencer Morgan’ she is halfway to discovering what is going on. Things take an unexpected turn as Dante starts to notice Devon acting out of character, and he is forced to face the truth – something out of the ordinary really is going on.
DarkWeb (TEASER  ONLY) by TaliaVines
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Hello lovelies! After a million (!!!) reads, I've taken DarkWeb down. Thank you for all the comments, votes, and reads! UPDATE: DARKWEB IS NOW FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED. A revised, improved, totally portable version of DarkWeb is on sale at Amazon for a couple of bucks if you want your own shiny new copy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CYHXC4Y In the meantime, I'll be around, working on other stories. See you soon, --T **** If you want to check out the beginning of DarkWeb to see if it's the kind of story you might like, I'm leaving the first three chapters up. ****THIS IS ONLY AN EXCERPT/TEASER, NOT THE COMPLETE STORY.**** {WATTPAD FEATURED STORY} {Highest Rank #1 Mystery/Thriller} When the FBI approaches 22 year old Wren Bower to work as an informant, she knows she'll take the job no matter what. The pay: Time off her jailbird brother's sentence. Wren's assignment: Put herself in the path of enigmatic computer programmer Mark Donahue. The FBI suspects Mark's the mastermind of DarkWeb, an untraceable website that deals in drugs, weapons, hit men, and human trafficking. But Mark is more than Wren bargained for. To make matters worse, Mark's arrogant, dangerous, totally hot younger brother, Davis, starts sniffing out inconsistencies in Wren's cover story. Can Wren get the FBI what they want before Mark or Davis discover she's an informant? The only way out is to solve the mystery of DarkWeb. {Featured} Highest Rank -- #1 in Mystery/Thriller
The Cellar by natashapreston
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For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...