Satchmo Turner, proprietor of the Waifs and Strays private detection agency, can feel all of his meagre past success slipping away. His relationship is on the skids, he's flat broke and his business partner is hell-bent on taking a murder case that isn't paying. When a dynamite client proposes a doddle of a job for a...
Satchmo Turner is a failed private detective from the rusting heart of the Black Country who is reeling from the loss of his sister and fiancee. He's going nowhere at work, and treading water in life, until he picks up a simple missing person case and stumbles into something much bigger. Satchmo soon finds himself in...
✨A WATTYS 2022 PARANORMAL & "BEST CHARACTERS" WINNER✨ A college basketball star risks everything to prove his innocence with a girl who can communicate with ghosts. *** Ace Jones isn't certain about a lot of things in life, but basketball has always come easy. This is until he finds himself as the prime suspect of a m...
In the midst of a devastating divorce, writer Clara Gillis retreats to a remote cabin in Cape Breton's wild highlands, seeking solace with her only companion: loyal pit bull, Blue. But when Blue vanishes into the mist-shrouded mountains, Clara's search for him becomes something far greater than a desperate rescue mis...
Exes aren't supposed to end up as best friends. Exes-turned-bff's should never have a one night stand. Dexter and Hadley do.
Laila knows one thing- Fight like a warrior or die like a warrior And Aron's stands on one principle - War or life, they can always be win by hook or crook. Together they are Hash Slingers Laila entered MasterChef to prove herself-not to face him. Aron was the last person she expected to see. Their past was messy, th...
✧.* 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐕𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 ✧.* For three years, Saisha Roy had been receiving mysterious recordings. Therapy sessions of a stranger. A man consumed by obsession, his voice dripping with madness as he spiraled deeper into his own darkness. She called him Mr. Psycho. It was harmless...
This story was written about nine years ago, and resurrected now because I've hit a wall with another story I was currently writing. It follows a wannabe detective through a maze of characters and bizarre situations involving a family trust. It came from a previous book called The Mistake which had a bevy of character...
Diane Simmons always had the bad luck to look like a spitting image of her tall twin brother David. But as her world turns upside down, Diane has no other choice but to embrace their resemblance; with her father and David dead, two younger unmarried sisters in tow, an emotionally unstable mother and no other male suc...
2019 WATTY WINNER FOR HISTORICAL FICTION. Charity loves Ian. Ian thinks Charity is an incorrigible flirt and he is certainly not tempted. Not one bit! Or at least that's what he tells himself... Bright, optimistic, and a bit naïve, Charity Crewe has always been in love with Ian Douglass. And it would certainly help if...
Criminal necromancer & vampire private eye team up to solve the case of the missing barista. *** When a client drops dead in her parlor, former necromancer turned fortune teller, Isla, has no choice but to illegally resurrect the poor gal. Better that than go back to jail for keeping a corpse, am I right? The gal's ju...
Sophie Langston is far from the perfect teen. When she's forced to take a babysitting job for the most prominent family in town it seems like a harsh punishment. The rumors surrounding that family alone are enough to make her plead for a second chance but some things....are written in stone.
One of us is an addict..one of us is a fraud. One of us is haunted. One of us is a monster, one a killer, one a liar. One of us is a predator, one of us a prince. One of us is a seductress. One of us is damned. All of us are killers. Some secrets should remain dead and buried, not dug back up and placed into the corne...
After the events of the summer, Mahogany hoped for a quiet fall, but this is Pandemonium, where nothing is ever calm, and silence carries consequences. __________ When Matt Hader, the president of the Pandemonium Clock Tower Committee, is brutally murdered, Mahogany is reticent to find his killer. After breaking her...
A relics collector must uncover a family secret to solve a wizard's homicide before his apprentice's ghost drives her crazy indefinitely ... or she becomes the next murder victim. ******** Mahogany, a human living in the magical town of Pandemonium, has taken a job collecting magical relics from deceased mythical and...
Collin likes his new foster family. The Weavers are nice, live in a posh neighborhood, and seem to actually want Collin around. Life is pretty much perfect. Until the Weavers' dead daughter shows up on their doorsteps. The Iris Weaver that comes back home is not the same person everyone remembers. Gone is the cheerl...
A map fragment is found among the belongings of an archaeologist that died working on the site of a dig in Egypt. before any action can be taken, the rest of the belongings are stolen before any more could be retrieved and protected. The map, a possible confirmation of the Viking visits to North America, draws the att...
One last summer. One last chance for an adventure. What happens after high school graduation? For Finn, Becca, Ronan (and friends!), the answer to this question involves a sort-of-stolen Ferrari, a one-way plane ticket to Alaska, a mysterious college radio station, and a road-trip across the United States of America...
After the unfortunate demise of his police detective father, Wendell Dankworth and his friend Jerome Weeble take up the roles of private investigators and begin a search for the criminals responsible. Their inexperience and bumbling leads them into the worlds of smuggling, cartels, hit men, crime lords and gang warfar...
[2022 Wattys Shortlist] [2023 Wattpad Editors' Choice] Previously "Wicked Lies" Melissa Hale, daughter of Senator Hale, was murdered. Christopher Williams, one of her classmates at NYU, is being framed for it. Isabela del Rey, a young lawyer working at one of the top law firms in New York, is determined to help him, e...
Barney Conroy is an average guy trying to live an average life. He's just not as good at it as the rest of us. Each chapter of 'The Chronicles of Barnia' captures a particular episode in Barney's struggle to be socially acceptable. They can be read in any order. Barney's adventures continue in a full length novel ri...
A retired homicide detective finds that retiring physically and retiring mentally are very different animals. A two-week getaway for sun and relaxing start right away with curiosity that leads to involvement, and that leads to defending the life of a widow as well as his own.
One year ago, the children of Hamelin disappeared in the middle of the night. With no clues about their whereabouts save a trail of footprints leading to the riverbank, their families believed them to be lost to the raging current. On the day of their memorial, the children return as suddenly as they left, but they ar...
* 4 Sample Chapters * Bye-bye vanity! Neighbours Emma Dotrice and Mitch Garner have more in common than a general dislike for each other. They're both at career crossroads. She's had to climb back down the company ladder due to a family crisis making her guardian to her 8-year-old nephew, Gabe, and he's been benched f...
[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins h...
Blackwell Boarding School is swarmed with cameras that prey on the students in order to film for the reality TV show that shows an exclusive inside to an elite school. Zora McQueen avoids the glistening TV screen when her nudes are spread around campus, instead taking comfort with the only other person who keeps secre...
Can an insecure beauty tame a self-sabotaging beast? *4 Sample Chapters * ☆Winner of a 2017 Watty Award in The Originals category. Julia Swift is terribly sexy. Unfortunately, there's nothing she can do about it. While attempting to hide in plain sight from a world she fears only wants to use her, she is claimed as...
* 4 Sample Chapters * Inquisitive heir, Charlie Fine's obsession with the truth makes him an excellent fraud investigator, but there's one mystery he's never been able to solve: the identity of the girl who gave him the greatest kiss of his life during a high school game of 7 Minutes In Heaven. Twenty years of experi...
* 4 Sample Chapters * When an eccentric old neighbour dies and names Violet March in his will, she is even more surprised than his estranged and spoiled family. To make matters stranger, she learns that all must attend a pretend murder-mystery weekend for any to claim a share of the inheritance. Being a good sport und...
The Cartwright clan has worked the farm for almost a century. On the surface, they are prosperous pillars of the community. But once a generation, a wicked harvest must be reaped, to ensure that the family never falls. The appointed time for Joshua Cartwright's offspring approaches. He has to remind himself that we al...