Amateursleuth Stories

Our lives are a loop, repeating the same cadence each birth-but what if history gets rewritten? What if the record skips, the needle strays, and weave a brand-new thread through ancient days? The cosmic clock rewinds, its gears unspun, to chase a dawn we've never, ever won. We break the wheel, we step outside the rhyme, and write our own names on the face of time. welcome to my first ever novel (18272th attempt) immortal x mortal morally grey mmc strong fmc 2nd chance slow burn (extreme)

When recently retired schoolteacher Eleanor "Nell" Hartwell joins the Wren's Hollow quilting guild, she learns the circle's strange tradition: each member secretly stitches one square representing a private confession, to be sewn into a communal "memory quilt" no outsider ever decodes. Then the guild's matriarch dies mid-stitch-and her unfinished square, read against the others, becomes a coded confession that names her own killer.

~Emma~ Emma is a sharp crime interviewer/reporter, who finds the truth. Trained to see the micro-expressions and vocal shifts, she notices the things that everyone else misses. ~The Mystery~ A sudden tragedy happens in the quiet town of England, Great Hallow, leaving a trail of grief and a closed police investigation. What happen when Emma start digging in the closed case. Will Emma find the truth? Or Will the investigation cause her to lose her life?

When burned-out city editor Nora Ashby inherits her late aunt's seaside bookshop, she means only to sell up and recover. But beneath a loose floorboard she finds a decades-old unpublished manuscript that names a local murderer-a killer who has lived quietly and respectably in Saltmere Bay ever since, who knows the manuscript existed, and who has been watching the shop ever since Aunt Vivian died.

Some secrets are buried. Some are locked away. And some have dark eyes , a broken past, and live in Block C

Zelda wants to teach children English and 'find herself' in Kathmandu. Ian wants to get stoned and trek the Himalayas. Tommy wants to get rich by smuggling diamonds. How their stories collide will leave you on the edge of your seat!

"Two bodies in a car at the bottom of a ravine - one is a stranger, frozen solid; the other is her brother-in-law. Country girl Kaelynn Barrows has a compulsive need to understand what happened, and no respect for secrets. The police suspect her brother-in-law is a murderer and that his car accident was suicide. She can't agree but after a young girl arrives with a note saying she'd his daughter, everything is open to question. When Kaelynn and her sister stumble upon a third body, the questions won't stop and now it's not just the police paying attention. As she digs, threats hit too close to home, but she can't stop. At this rate, he'll be guilty, and she'll be dead. " Am hoping you'll be willing to rate each section with: 1) I really want to know what happens next 2) Interesting, but not worried about what's next 3) Couldn't finish this (Please say why.)

Meet Agatha and Conan. She is named after her grandma's favourite author and has a dark past she's trying to make up for. He is the son of troubled novelist and has a dreary present he is trying to escape. Forced to spend their summer at the same rundown lakeside resort, Agatha and Conan end up in the middle of a mystery... and each other's business.

When a jinn dragged Glasgow science teacher, Tavish MacBruce, to a Scotland where dragons and unicorns are real, he took on the role of a wizard. After a princess is murdered, he's asked to be a detective. When he finds a second body, he realizes it'll take more than a knowledge of BBC crime shows and the know-how to make a crab apple battery if he wants to survive.

A century-old murder mystery A dangerous ghost An amateur historian... What binds them together? Cora Tozzi is a retired businesswoman who, after nursing her mother through her final illness, wishes only for a peaceful orderly world in her suburban Chicago home. When an angry spirit begins to leave cryptic messages on her computer and threatens those around her, Cora is forced to dig into the town's notorious past to uncover secrets that will free the bonds that tie her and the spirit. With the help of her husband and their friend, Frannie, Cora uses her skills as an amateur historian in a search that takes them into unexpected terrain including subterranean passages, an eerie graveyard, and shadowy paths in isolated forests where a sinister predator is awakened. As they battle unpredictable supernatural powers, the story takes a poignant turn: the spirit's life is revealed, and both women, a century apart, examine threads into the past and the future, their loss and longing linked across the generations.

Merely existing. Not living. That's all disgraced ballet star Madeline James has been doing since jeté-ing out of the international spotlight and ranks of Dresden's Semperoper Ballet after an affair with the artistic director threatens to implode the company. Back at home in The Six, Madeline's camping out on her brother's couch and eating far too much take-out for a former ballerina. Teaching English to foreign students, she's also trying to forget she ever danced. Then one of her Colombian students, a burlesque dancer named Cattaleya, disappears, and the girl's boyfriend, also Maddy's student, asks her for help just before making himself scarce. Despite strong reservations, Maddy feels compelled to find out what really happened to her Colombian students. As she is drawn into the seductive world of burlesque, it turns out the truth is much more complicated and dangerous then she could have ever imagined. With the help of Ruby, a trans burlesque dancer and Max, her cop brother, she finds herself caught in a tangle of jewel smuggling and visa scams all while struggling to find her courage to take the stage once again.

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 fitting in and getting bored with her favorite books, she doesn't know who she should be. Worried, her mom takes her out for a girls' day at the mall, and Emily spots a Ouija board promising answers. Her mom refuses to let her buy it, so in the lamplight of her bedroom, she scrawls one herself and whispers to the spirit realm for help. Contact is made with a spirit named Morrigan, who has forgotten her past, and they agree to help each other so both of them can move on. But a dark mystery unfolds as they go searching for Morrigan's past. Emily makes a new friend, secrets are kept, and guilt and betrayal come between her and the spirit. As tensions rise, Emily seeks the guidance of three young witches for help. Now, she must learn to live for herself before losing herself forever. *** HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 paranormalmystery #3 cozymystery #3 amateur-sleuth #3 crystals #7 ouijaboard #15 middle grade

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 for almost a week after going out Friday night. Bloodied and naked, the police are baffled as to who killed Jessie Raegan. Indie "Red" McAdams, an aspiring detective, is especially interested in the case. With her cunning wits and master sleuthing, Red is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and find the killer. But time is of the essence. With the police wrapping up the case and a killer still on the loose, Red must solve the murder before it's too late. Copyright 2020

A monster is running down Main Street! An old mountain hermit, dressed as Death, drops dead at a Halloween festival in Hope Rock County. Nobody knows why. But mysterious forces are at work on the Appalachian ridges. Granny witches and the Ancients. Black witches and sin eaters. Most folks think the old ways and traditions are a thing of the past. But the past rears up its aged head, and there's more going on here than meets the eye. A lovely tract of land is threatened by developers. Will life in the sleepy little town be forever changed? Can Hadley Pell solve the murder and keep Paradise from being lost forever? The Hadley Pell Cozy Mystery Series: 1. Nobody's Sorry You're Dead 2. Nobody Knows Your Secret 3. Nobody Can Say It's You 4. Nobody's Fool Y'all 5. Nobody Says It's Easy

Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache-until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother's driveway. Even worse, her supposedly respectable brother begins behaving in decidedly non-innocent ways, like fleeing to the Bahamas and leaving her with both a homicide in her lap and the pointed suspicions of the Atlanta PD directed her way. Suddenly, she has to worry about clearing her own name, not just that of her wayward sibling, and a shop chock-full of firearms doesn't help matters. Complicating her search for answers is Trey Seaver, field agent for Phoenix, an exclusive corporate security firm hired to investigate the crime. Trey is fearless, focused, and-much to Tai's dismay-utterly impervious to bribes, threats and clever deceptions. Still in recovery from the car accident that left him cognitively and emotionally damaged, Trey has constructed a world of certainty and routine. He has powerful people to answer to, and the last thing he wants is an unpredictable stranger "detecting" on Phoenix turf. Tai's inquiry leads her from the cold-eyed glamour of Atlanta's adult entertainment scene to the gilded treachery of Tuxedo Road. Potential suspects abound, including violent stalkers, vengeful sisters, and a paparazzo with a taste for meth. But it takes another murder-and threats to her own life-to make Tai realize that to solve this crime, she has to trust the most dangerous man she's ever met.

Department secretary Emma Price is underemployed at her alma mater and considering an English graduate degree to boost her job prospects. Unfortunately, she had a short-lived fling with Eric Sanger, the new chair of the English department. He's a lightning rod who has as many rabid fans as ticked off enemies throughout the college. When one of Eric's foes takes their anger one step too far, Emma is a suspect, and finding the true culprit becomes a matter of life and death.

This is a serialized story with a new part every few days. When do you stop being a child? When do you have the courage and maturity to say no to your mother's request for help with a knotty situation? Millie MacDonald is caught in a family drama when her aunt's bridge partner dies and the aunt insists it was murder. She is lured away from her peaceful (more or less) life in Blue Pond, a tiny Prince Edward Island fishing village, by a sense of duty to help her parents calm down her bossy old aunt. There is no strong language or graphic violence. But there are some nasty people who smile and murder when you least expect it.

Danny Callahan wasn't looking for trouble. He was just a stockbroker who took a wrong turn down a Manhattan alley on a rainy Tuesday night - and saw something he was never supposed to see. The kind of thing powerful people kill to keep quiet. Danny should have walked away. He almost did. Instead he walked into The Black Rose, an Irish pub on the corner, ordered a whiskey, and met Vivian Cross - the bartender who sees everything, says exactly what she thinks, and doesn't back down from anyone. Including him. By midnight, they're both running. Neither of them asked for this. Neither of them trusts the other. But Danny's face is already in the wrong hands, and the people looking for him don't leave loose ends. Vivian Cross didn't grab her jacket to stand on the sideline. Wall Street has secrets it will kill to keep. Danny has a past he's never told anyone. And somewhere beneath the rain-slicked streets of Manhattan, something much bigger than one wrong turn is about to surface. The Black Rose. Book One.

Living in a cozy, small town, tucked away in the south of England, unremarkable average guy Alfie Bowman has been heard to describe himself as a refugee from a failed life. In his own words he’s ordinary looking, starting to lose his hair, a little bit shorter than average, a little bit heavier than he should be, and a lot less fit than he really ought to be. Most definitely an unlikely hero! At the ripe old age of 50, he’s escaped an unhappy marriage and just wants to re-start his life, relax and have some fun, and maybe do some writing - if only he could find something to write about! So when he stops in the pub for a couple of pints on the way home one night, the last thing he expects to have to do is save a stunning young woman half his age from a fracas with an enormous thug with huge fists! But that’s exactly what he does do, because, as far as Alfie’s concerned, there are some things you can’t just stand by and ignore. Waking up in hospital later that night he wonders if maybe getting involved hadn’t been the best decision he’d ever made after all! But he soon learns that the beating he’d been given had nothing to do with events in the pub... So who beat him up, and why? Who is the stunning young woman and what’s she doing in town?

Caroline Reeds (or Mama Care to most) owns a little bakery right in the middle of an ever-growing business district. And someone is trying to run her out of town. It starts with a graffitied wall, then a broken window, but it doesn't stop there. Since Caroline refuses to call the cops, Caroline's daughter and Chef Expert in Marketing (yes she picked the title herself) Emilia, and Mark, Emilia's mischievous best friend, take it upon themselves to get to the bottom of things, and maybe even figure out their own growing attraction that they have been ignoring since childhood. Who could have done it? Was it the big corporation trying to buy up the last small businesses in town? Was it a rival local business? Or was it Caroline's previous business partner who is still upset about their falling out? Experience the mystery, the romance, and the sweetest of treats in this novella, 'Who's Trying to Kill Caroline?'