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  • It Started With a Murder
    263K 13.9K 17

    Annabelle Dickson is the most popular girl at Hillton high school. Annabelle Dickson is the nicest girl you'll ever meet. Annabelle Dickson is dead. And Adrian Humphrey is the main suspect. A war errupts at Hillton High School, a rift between the people who believe Adrian's innocence and Adrian's guilt. Adrian must r...

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  • Nursing a Grudge: An Earl Walker Mystery
    449K 7.1K 28

    WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? With the nursing home about to close for good, can a grumpy old man find a killer—and figure out his relationship with his new lady friend—before all the suspects move away? Read this novel on your Kindle Fire, iPad, tablet or smart phone! Get the free app here: http://www.wattpad.c...

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  • The Secret (Watty Award Winner) | ✔️
    8.6M 361K 54

    THANK YOU, Wattpad, for the HQ Love Watty Award! Concept: A mysterious young woman flees from her troubled past only to discover it is impossible to escape THE SECRET that haunts her. *PLEASE NOTE: This story was originally inspired by the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy". ...

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  • The Ugly Man. Part 1 of 3
    701K 160 3

    The summer of 1976. The whole country is baking in a heatwave. In a sleepy Derbyshire village a man, known locally as the Ugly Man, walks into his local with a claw hammer and in front of everyone brutally murders the young woman behind the bar. For Patricia Lancing, juggling the demands of being a wife and mother alo...

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  • Dead If You Do
    909K 52.1K 55

    A campus thriller: suspense, murder & one handsome roommate. ***** When Haley Bell is offered a scholarship to study at the exclusive Woodcreek College, famous for moulding the world's brightest thinkers, politicians and entrepreneurs, she jumps at...

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  • Haunted Rayne
    47.8K 3.5K 44

    A young murderer with amnesia enrolls in a reform school exclusively for wealthy teens. This steep tuition pays to clean records and erase evidence of heinous pasts. There's only one problem: The campus is haunted. »»-------------¤-------------«« "Like a starting pistol for a track event, this thriller should snap rea...

  • Death at Scarlet Leaf.
    78.7K 4.4K 10

    On the eve of a hot summer's day, a body is found in the summerhouse of a great estate. It is up to the young, inexperienced, newly appointed governess Alianna Winter to find the killer before he or she strikes again. -The first book in the Alianna Winter series. Her later cases: 2.The Merryweather Jewel Thefts 3.A Ho...

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  • Secrets and Lies | ✔️
    1.4M 80.1K 51

    Just when she thought she was safe . . . Now that she has a loving, devoted family by her side, Talia Wilson finally feels happy and secure. What she doesn't realize is that someone from the past is out to get her. Someone who knows about her secrets and the deceitful game she played. And this someone is even crazier...

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  • Pitch Black (Romantic Thriller, Completed)
    1.1M 54.6K 46

    Even a Diamond can be shattered... After the owner of a security company is murdered, his sharp-edged wife goes on the run. Forced to abandon everything she holds dear - her home, her friends, her job in special ops - she builds a new life for herself in England. As Ashlyn Hale, she meets Luke, a handsome local who ma...

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  • Dale-Creek Hill Asylum (1) | ✓
    967K 35.4K 42

    'Ashley looked forward to her new role as a moth looks forward to an electric light, drawn-in inexplicably and equally doomed upon contact.' Seventeen-year-old Ashley has her life mapped out as an aspiring psychologist. Bright and brilliant, with a particular fascination for warped and extraordinary minds, she leaps a...

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  • The Sad Man. A Dani Lancing Story
    417K 5.8K 7

    Police officer Tom Bevans is nicknamed the Sad Man by his colleagues. As a Family Liaison Officer he is always the bearer of bad news - it is his job to tell the friends and family of victims the fate of their loved ones. But Tom is weighted down by crimes both old and new - haunted by the death of his best friend Dan...

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  • Sounds of Murder
    75.4K 6K 25

    When Psychology Professor Pamela Barnes discovers her department's star researcher strangled to death in the computer lab, she's determined to find out who did it. Will an accidental recording of the murder allow Pamela to use her expertise in acoustics to identify the killer? A unique cozy mystery--set in the world o...

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  • The Day I Became a Serial Killer
    203K 10K 95

    This suspenseful novel won't let you down. Enter the mind of a Serial Killer. 17-year-old senior in high school, Crystal has her life completely planned out. Everything is perfect. But, when she accidentally kills someone, all her plans begin to crumble Desperate, Crystal decides she will do anything to keep her sec...

  • Killing Tink
    42.1K 4.3K 42

    Jade is sixteen years old when she leaves her abusive boyfriend on the beach for a stranger who offers her safety. It doesn't take long to realize that not all deeds are done with good intentions. For years she's kept as a pet and turned into Tink, the perfect toy who takes it all and says thank you. Is there a way to...

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  • Cherry Bite
    43.2K 1.6K 25

    Seventeen young girls have disappeared within the last year with growing velocity and the authorities are dumb with bewilderment. The police have no key suspect, no bodies, no evidence. What they do have is a sense of absence and the knowledge that they're being played. With every day that passes another girl is close...

  • Murder on Opening Night: Myrtle Clover #9
    49.8K 4.4K 19

    When Myrtle Clover and her friend Miles attend a play in their small town, there's a full house on opening night. It's clear to Myrtle that one of the actresses is a stage hog who loves stealing the spotlight. Nandina Marshall certainly does upstage everyone-when her murder forces an unexpected intermission. Can Myrtl...

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  • A Body at Bunco : Myrtle Clover #8
    53.7K 4.8K 21

    Playing Bunco may be fun...but murder proves a game-changer. Octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover has never heard of the dice game Bunco. Regardless, she steps in as her daughter-in-law's sub and reluctantly puts her game face on. Bunco turns out to be child's play. But when a body is discovered, Myrtle realizes another...

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  • Death Pays a Visit : Myrtle Clover #7
    68K 6.3K 22

    At Greener Pastures Retirement Home, leisure time can prove perilous. When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late-night visit to Myrtle Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to Greener Pastures Retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider the Home's dubious amenities...

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  • A Body at Book Club: Myrtle Clover #6
    115K 7.5K 19

    This is one book club meeting that doesn't go by the book. When octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover discovers Naomi Pelter's dead body during a book club meeting, the other members seem shocked. But Myrtle can read between the lines. Naomi had riled everyone up by flirting with other people's husbands, arguing with neig...

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  • Cooking is Murder, A Myrtle Clover Mystery #11
    37.2K 3.3K 21

    Myrtle has decided that she's actually a very good cook. In fact, she feels she's such a good cook that she elects to hone her skills at a cooking school. She persuades her reluctant friend Miles to join her, convinced they both could use some inspiration in the kitchen. This cooking school enrolls one rather loudmou...

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  • A Body in the Backyard: #4
    205K 8.6K 19

    It's just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover-until her yardman discovers a dead body planted in her backyard. This death isn't cut and dried-the victim was bashed in the head with one of Myrtle's garden gnomes. Myrtle's friend Miles recognizes the body and identifies him as Charles Clayborne... rel...

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  • Cruising for Murder: Myrtle Clover #10
    42.4K 3.3K 17

    When Myrtle and her friend Miles set out for adventure on the high sea, they assume most of the trip's excitement will result from shore excursions to charming Alaskan villages. They feel as if their ship has come in. But when a fellow passenger disappears, Myrtle realizes she must seize the helm and find the killer...

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  • Death at a Drop-In: Myrtle Clover #5
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    Cosette Whitlow is a society matron...if tiny Bradley, North Carolina, has one. She kindly volunteers for all the town's charities, but isn't nearly as kind to her own family, neighbors, and friends. In fact, Cosette is emphatically disliked by much of the town-including octogenarian Myrtle Clover. And Myrtle knows th...

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  • Ethan Justice: Origins
    104K 5.5K 32

    In the morning, he's struggling to remember. By the evening, he's struggling to survive. John Smith's risk avoidance policy just expired! Ethan Justice: Origins is a fast-paced, action-packed, character-driven thriller, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, cringe, cry and cheer.

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  • The Persistence of Memory | ✔
    84.7K 5.5K 29

    --JUNE 2021 EDITOR'S PICK-- In a near future where neuroprosthetics have evolved, Nina--a young journalist--receives a hippoccampal implant after losing the ability to create long term memories. All seems well until memories that don't seem to be her own begin to surface. Now, Nina must find the truth behind these mem...

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  • OGENUS EARTH 🌎 🌊 {Dystopian Sci-Fi Adventure}
    52.5K 6K 67

    FEATURED on the Wattpad Adventure 'Voyages and Sea Epics' list! Not so far in the distant future, the Earth is drowning in our mistakes. The permafrost has melted. Millions have been wiped out. Thousands more suffer to breathe on land while facing down brutal raiders and monsters too fantastic to be natural. As a Ti...

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  • The Prisoner Project
    1.1M 58.8K 51

    When a strange advertisement appears on the local newspaper asking for compliant females willing to interview and connect with the minds of the worlds worst serial killers, Aria Black thinks it nothing short of an exaggeration. She applies for the job in order to spice up her monochrome lifestyle and let loose of her...

  • The Necklace (#Wattys 2017)
    151K 9.9K 59

    Highest Rank: #1 in Mystery/Thriller (Completed + EDITING) People throw rocks at things that shine. Maybe its a good thing that they do. They have learnt their lesson, with anything that glows like that. But fate has its ways. If you deserve the Necklace, It comes for you. When Damon comes back after an failed attempt...

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  • Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board
    4.9M 133K 30

    This is the original, unedited version of Light as a Feather, Book #1. This book was the inspiration for the Hulu Original Series. The revised version is now available in bookstores throughout the USA & Canada from Simon Pulse. McKenna Brady thinks her junior year of high school is going to be the best ever when she'...

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  • Four Walls
    2M 89.2K 40

    It doesn't matter how she ended up in this four-walled room. What matters is she gets out. ***** After a night out in New York City, Liliana Rossi wakes up in a windowless room with no recollection of how she got there. And she's not alone. The dar...

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