Hardboiled Stories

They say the streets of Brooklyn are cleaner now. They lied. Nico Moretti is a ghost from a world that no longer exists. After 30 years behind bars, he steps out into a 2026 Brooklyn that smells of plastic and neon instead of coal and sweat. The old rules are dead, replaced by shadows you can't see and enemies you can't touch. But Nico didn't come back to fit in. He came back for what's his. Armed with nothing but his scars and a "high-tech prosthesis" that sees what human eyes miss, Nico begins a one-man war against the new underworld. This isn't just a story about the future. It's about a man who refuses to become a relic. Welcome to the Storm. The wolves are hungry.

They say the truth will set you free. But what if the truth is buried at four thousand feet? For seven years, Elena Vance has lived a ghost of an existence. Ever since her first love was brutally murdered during a romantic weekend getaway in the Cascade Mountains, she has structured her life around a single, paralyzing phobia: never look up. She stayed in the lowlands. She stayed in the valleys. She convinced herself that if she kept her world perfectly flat, the monsters of her past could never climb down to touch her.She was wrong.When the wealthy trustee of her late boyfriend's estate is found slaughtered on a remote alpine ridge, the nightmare she ran from circles back. The weapon is the same. The jagged terrain is the same. And the DNA left on the victim's jacket belongs entirely to Elena. To see how the mystery unfolds, check out the book 👉

This public domain work by mastermind Dashiell Hammett was first published in 1930. After the death of his partner, private investigator, Sam Spade, gets mixed up with a crowd chasing a statue of a golden bird encrusted with jewels, an artifact that is practically priceless, but the only thing Spade wants to know is, who killed his partner."

Allow me to introduce myself: the name's Dylan Neville. I'm a decent writer, a good cook, and (if I do say so myself) the sharpest shot in the City. Nice to meet you all. Well, I found out the hard way that there's only so many bridges you can burn before you've got no more places to run. So I had to turn to my brother, currently sitting on his newly minted detective agency and looking for assistants. Ryan spent most of our childhood as an amateur sleuth. But I'd say there are significant differences between being a kid detective and doing the business as an adult. For instance; your name gets stamped above the door for the mighty convenience of anyone who wants you dead. Can't say this is how I imagined spending my twenties. But hey, I've got nowhere else to go. Might as well make the best out of it.

When you're powerful and you want something done, you call Charlie Talbott. He will ask only the basic questions and give you the best results. There isn't a better fixer in town, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have an agenda of his own. In this collection of short stories you'll see the inner workings of a broken, unequal system, the privileged few who fully depend on the status quo and the people who profit from it all.

I went to a movie with some friends. I’d mistakenly predicted a particular twist ending, so at dinner afterward I innocently asked one of my friends whether he had also expected the same ending. Apparently, a man at the next table mistakenly thought I blurted out the end of the movie. (I did not.) On his way out, he grumbled something along the lines of “I hope you know that you ruined the movie for us,” and then he was gone. I was too stunned to do anything other than go home and write this story. ("Ruin" copyright 2006, originally appeared on the blog Flashing in the Gutters.)

They say crime doesn't pay. Well, I say you've made a bad deal, and need to renegotiate. It's the middle of the night and I'm currently lying in a puddle of blood, rethinking my decisions. Broken bones, stab wounds and stiffs are just another part of the equation. Question is, how much is all this trouble really worth? Double Digits is a fast paced, hard boiled noir story narrated from the perspective of an estranged criminal, following his downward spiral in life.

THIRTEEN YEARS OF DUST is the intriguing, introductory novel for the Duke Bradley, Private Eye series. Duke is an egotistical, sarcastic, and obsessive ex-FBI special detective who got canned from the bureau for botching a decade-long investigation because he was blind drunk. It's a secret he has vowed to take to the grave, and only his ex-partner knows what really happened that night in Bay Springs, Mississippi. Now after a stint in rehab and losing everything, he is sober and will do what it takes to stay that way. Down on his luck, highly in debt to his ex-wife, and with a landlord just itching to evict him, Duke has devised a way to get some quick cash doing what he does best, solving murders. In a city full of addiction, he sets forth, determined to stay clean and not let anyone get away with murder I present for your consideration.

Jim is a private investigator who thought he'd seen it all. He took another easy job for a straight-laced professor and was already counting the money before he was paid. But the device Jim was sent to retrieve is more powerful than he could have imagined. Every notion he's ever had about time and space goes out the window as he struggles to find a way back home.

Class reunions can be awkward, but this one was deadly! After reluctantly agreeing to attend her law school class reunion, Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae ends up playing detective when a man is found stabbed to death in the dean's office. Here's the link to the first novel in the Sam McRae Mystery Series: https://www.wattpad.com/story/62902330-identity-crisis-sam-mcrae-mystery-1

Slightly homophobic interrogator teams up with a hard-boiled lesbian detective to solve a murder case. In Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of Europe, rain is liquefied gloom, the streets are sepulchral and corruption is the norm. A new take on noir detective novels by turning their clichés upside down and inside out. Keeping it Scandinavian - simple, realistic and looking behind the shiny facades that hide the rot. Cover produced using an image by #sebastianboatca @ http://www.sebastianboatca.com/

The corpse of a former nun turned actress/model has been found in the desert near Joshua Tree National Park and her onetime Mother Superior asks Banning private detective John Marriner--a decorated war veteran with stress and other disorders--to search for her killer on the mean streets of LA, where he was last seen bitchslapping the city Police Chief.

A sporting lodge in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was supposed to just be a weekend getaway for the young Sullivan couple. However, a dark stranger and a darker secret whisper of deadly danger.

Un dialogo tra un ergastolano e il suo avvocato in un futuro prossimo venturo, in cui il protagonista (il criminale) apprende che forse ci sta una remota possibilità di essere scarcerato... ma con un prezzo. Come la maggior parte dei miei racconti, questo titolo inizia a un certo punto e termina a un certo punto. Non ha un inizio stabilito o una fine, consideratelo come una sorta di esperimento. Magari se a qualche lettore piace, potrei completarlo in seguito, chi sa! Non conosco bene la classificazione di Watttpad, ma il racconto non è violento, sanguinario o altro; essendo ambientato in un penitenziario americano ha un linguaggio un pò... colorito, per fare più scena. Buona lettura!

While battling drug addiction and post-traumatic demons, can a female veteran overcome the forces trying to frame her for murder? When Marine veteran and aspiring private eye Erica Jensen gets a frantic call for help from a client-the female half of a social media influencer couple-she springs into action. Unfortunately, she arrives at their house only to find their bodies, butchered, in the basement. Despite her cooperation with police, the homicide detectives on the case consider Erica a possible "person of interest." As Erica struggles to exonerate herself, she draws unwanted attention from a mysterious stranger. Meanwhile, witnesses who could clear her wind up dead. Can Erica fight forces powerful enough to frame her for murder without getting herself or more civilians killed?

Thriller| Superhero| Action In a city crawling with secrets, STINK rises from alley-born mystery to psychic warrior. Gifted with insect communion and microbial control, he battles gang threats and biotech horrors unleashed by Triton Industries. Guided by mystics like Golden Owl, STINK uncovers his origin and the city's buried truths. Each episode blends Hip Hop grit, Afrofuturist horror, and numerology into a mythic saga of resistance. STINK isn't just fighting corruption-he's becoming the immune system of a dying world.