Amateur-sleuth Stories

Only a month has elapsed since the Lawrence Street Detective Club went back in time to rescue Sunny's daughter and stop a bad man, but the ripple effects of their changi...

Lucy's worried when one of her second graders goes missing, and her most eager student, eight-year-old Sadie, is determined to help crack the case. Despite both Sadie an...

After the mysterious tragedy of her mother, all Makayla Davis wants is to put the pain behind her. Letting go of the past was her main priority...until she met him. Ashe...

A witch who is a chocolatier to the fairies As a chocolatier to the fairies Winifred is a beloved member of the magical communities in Wiltshire, the land of Stonehenge...

Robin's life is in freefall over one weekend in April. On Friday, her fiancé Dustin calls off their wedding, on Saturday, she and her best friend Callie have a bonfire t...

Marcia Bailey is your typical 'frazzled English female protagonist.' She works in a small publishing agency, printing a niche agricultural quarterly journal, and a few c...

A young, dreary and anxious woman named Tami Deca moves to a new city to pursue a career in criminal justice. Her hunger for justice derived from the day she lost her fa...

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When the spirit of a comatose man shows up in front of her, Alexis Howard is determined to help him find his identity. Little does she know, she's about to get sucked in...

In this sixth novel of the Terribly Acronymed Detective Club series, all the world's a stage, and Rachel, Al, Lauren, Joe and Sunny find themselves playing parts scripte...

Bailey Renee Jenkins is being banished. Well, okay, banished may be too strong of a word, but it sure feels like that! Sent to stay with a great aunt she has never met f...

Meredith Gray is finally rebuilding her life - and not about to let a murder get in the way... I have a new (temporary) job and a new (potential) romance on the horizon...

At the start of the new millennium, ten-year-old Emily's made-up mysteries and snooping keeps getting her into trouble, and no one at school likes her because of it. Not...

Mirae Kang attends Waltz's Academy, a prestigious school where many witches are taught to hone their skills to become full-fledged witches. However, a sinister secret is...

My name is Meredith Gray, but I go by "Merry", and usually I love the holidays...but not this year. With divorce papers to sign and bills to pay, I'll take wha...

A body is found by an old man with his dog in an old, dilapidated barn. She is identified as Jessie Raegan, the head cheerleader of Cape Hill High who had been missing f...

classic set-up where a crime, usually murder, occurs in a seemingly impossible situation, such as a sealed room or isolated location, and there's no clear explanation of...

Oregon 1887 Anna goes on a journey of discovery as she sets off to find her missing brother. She wants to be more than a housewife and dreams of working as a ranch hand...

Some people say breaking up is hard to do, Mya Russell is finding out, just how hard. It's not enough to be dumped by the biggest asshole in Crawford City. No, said assh...