CASE: CLOSED "She's dead now, and there's nothing we can do about it." --- Kasia Andrews expects very little on a Monday morning. Until, whilst locked in the PE store cupboard, accompanied with basket balls, netballs, soccer balls and the guy that she doesn't really know anymore, Charlie Allen, they both uncover the diary of the recently deceased Devin Hill. © 2014 imogen timby.

Sawyer is back in Hollis after a whirlwind trip to New York and her mama is not too happy. Newly married and adjusting to her new role as a housewife, Sawyer finds herself feeling alone after Hollis isn't too thrilled about how she spent her time in New York. Ryan is also back in Hollis, adjusting to his new life as a Private Detective and trying to stay up to date on Rory Cunningham's arrest in Oxford. As much as Sawyer promises to stay away from both his new career and old case files she finds herself in the middle of both of them. His first client brings her past to the present and Rory's arrest is bringing old faces back to Hollis. Ryan and Sawyer have to face old enemies together, which brings out both of their old secrets and bad habits. Book 6 in the My Spy Series.

Sawyer Sweeney is going through a break up. Her heart hurts from Ryan pushing her away and she's convinced he's making a huge mistake. Her mother on the other hand, sees her new single status as an opportunity to get her with an appropriate suitor and so the meddling begins. Just as Ryan shuts down Sawyer for the last time, her mother finds a new handsome visitor staying with his aunt near Hollis. Sawyer wants nothing to do with men but her mother seems particularly interested in the mystery man from Maybridge. Delilah Sweeney tries to work her motherly magic to convince Sawyer to keep her heart open to possibilities. Will Sawyer accept that Ryan and her weren't written in the stars? Will she stay open minded and meet the mystery man? And if she does, will Delilah enjoy the consequences? This is the 5th installment in the Sawyer Sweeney Series!

Sawyer Sweeney has tumbled down the Hollis hierarchy and it's none other than Annabeth Matthew's that's shoved her from the spot light. Newly engaged Annabeth is enjoying the perks of being associated with a Founding Family and she's determined to show the town that she belongs. She wants her wedding to be the highlight of the year and has demanded that Sawyer be her maid of honor. While planning the major event, Sawyer witnesses Annabeth's ugly side coming out and wonders what Annabeth will do to make sure she's the belle of the ball. While Sawyer deals with a Bridezilla, Ryan is dealing with a new F.B.I agent in Hollis that has ties to his past. When an assignment comes up that Sawyer can help with, she assumes Ryan will forbid her from interfering but instead, is surprised when he shoves her into it. When she discovers the case could jeopardize her and Ryan's relationship she quickly backs out but the agent has some blackmail on Sawyer that could not only force her into a compromising position but also crash the wedding of the year.

Sawyer Sweeney Series Book 3 Sawyer Sweeney is finally in love. She's also now the party planner for the Hollis Historical Society and enjoys spending a few days a week working at the Old Town Winery. Her mother is pleased and Austin has come around to accepting her and Ryan's relationship. Things seem to be going her way until Poppy Penderghast makes things official with Jackson Hemming. The new couple of Hollis creates some buzz but Mrs. Hemming is not pleased. She knows Poppy is going through financial trouble and she's afraid Poppy will weasel her way into the Hemming's fortune. Mrs. Hemming makes a deal with Sawyer to split the new couple up but before Sawyer is able to make good on her word, she finds Poppy dead, face down on the country club golf course. Now the detective on the case, Mason Connor, has Sawyer as his prime suspect and Ryan is doing everything he can to keep her off his list. Sawyer realizes she has to find Poppy's killer before Mason finds more evidence to stack against her and arrests her for murder. #466 ChickLit #JustWriteIt #firsts

After Simon manages to escape the schoolhouse, Sawyer Sweeney becomes the prime witness in one of the biggest drug busts Mississipi has ever seen. With Simon on the loose, Austin & Ryan manage to keep Sawyer safe by hiding her inside the most secure property in Hollis, the Hemming House, which happens to belong to her ex-fiancé. While hiding away, Sawyer realizes she no longer desires to become a housewife and starts to wonder what else is out there for her. She wants to make things work with Ryan, but the realities of his job paired with faces from their past put pressure on the blossoming romance. Is Sawyer ready to move on from Hollis and the goals she had there? Or will Ryan's job force them apart before she's even able to decide? This is the sequel to My Spy

Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.

Ricardo Torres has spent most of his twenties chasing the bohemian lifestyle, right down to the paintbrush that seems permanently attached to his hand. In his quest to capture the damage wrought to his beloved Lake Fúquene on a canvas, Rico once again finds himself lakeside. However, he soon discovers that the lake has been hiding a secret beneath its waves. With the water all but gone, a stolen Botero sculpture emerges from the cracking, muddy lakebed. Shortly after the police are called, Detective Sonia Mendoza arrives on the scene, eager to warm up this cold case. But as soon as Ricardo and Sonia are back at the police station in Bogotá, they learn that the lake was hiding one more secret. Now this unlikely pair must team up to solve a mystery neither of them anticipated. [[[ONC 2021 Longlister]]] [Based on Prompt #5]

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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 over his head and embroiled a hunt for ancient treasure, unrequited love, violence and murder in a quiet English village stocked with a cast of characters he could never have imagined. Praise for Quid Pro Quo from Wattpadders: "Damn you for writing such a good book. I'm dead serious when I say you should look to get it published." "Overall, I think it's a great book and something I'd expect to see on a shelf in a bookstore somewhere." "I read another chapter and devoured the whole damn thing over an afternoon." "All-in-all the book was thoroughly enjoyable and very professionally written. Definitely better than almost everything else that I have encountered on Wattpad... it was a compelling read." "Your style of storytelling is lovely to read. I'm trying desperately to convince my husband to sign up to Wattpad so he can read it too."