Privateeye Stories

The story of a man, four teenagers, and conspiracy.

When a Private Eye is tasked with finding a missing person, he finds what might be an evil spirit lurking through the forests of North America.

Heir to a business empire, hedonist, playboy, and collector of beautiful things - Cezare Gray is a self-proclaimed cynic with a marvelous talent. He can steal secrets. Private investigator Miranda Lancing lives a fake life under a fake name, never trusting anyone. She moonlights as a thief. On the day they meet, Miranda's date is found dead, with a book lying across his chest. Will she take the heart of the coldest man she's ever met? Will he fall in love? Will they solve a mystery that doesn't want to be solved?

Cigars, fedoras, trench coats, and revolvers-1950s Los Angeles is a city painted in cigarette smoke and neon. When the young daughter of a powerful, well-connected family vanishes without a trace, rookie private eye Calvin "Cal" Burgos is pulled into a case far bigger than he ever imagined. Still shackled to a tragedy from his past, Cal finds himself navigating a labyrinth of corrupt cops, gangsters, and a family hiding more than grief. Every clue drags him deeper into the city's underbelly, where favors are debts, lies are currency, and redemption is never free.

Erica Jensen, a retired Marine with PTSD, struggles with making a living as an unlicensed private eye and overcoming her opioid addiction. When she's hired by a rich business man to find his missing daughter and recover embezzled money, things go south fast when she stumbles across a dead body. As Erica tries to discover why the victim was killed and where the girl disappeared, she ends up being targeted by the Russian mob. However, it takes all of Erica's wits to find out the astonishing truth behind it all.

Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg. Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Except those cases that involved bots. Until a beautiful woman, a beautiful bot created to mimic a beautiful woman to perfection, hands him the case of a serial bot killer. The investigation takes him from deepest, darkest pits, to the gleaming, cleanest Sectors of the Tether, where Dalton finds himself involved in a conspiracy that could cost the lives of thousands, millions of humans. Walking a fine line between the human and bot worlds, Dalton must face his own humanity and mortality to bring a genius killer to justice. A hardboiled, cyberpunk, noir detective story, set in the same world as "Anna In The Garden". 🥉3rd Place, The Ōkami Awards, Sci-Fi category - Sept '22🥉 🏵Featured by @BadassReads, 'The Dauntless' Reading list - Sept '23🏵 Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

A private eye is stood up by a contact late at night. When he begins his walk home he notices footsteps that aren't his own.

,, Wow. Secret agent, stalker and private eye at once.. is there something else I should know about you before I fall in love with you again?" ,, there are tons of what you should know. But you will never find out." ,, I can't believe. You let me down." He left and I burst into tears. Again. I felt alone. And I was. I was alone whole my life. I've lived in my own lies

A Veronica Mars Fanfiction that takes places after season four - Spoiler warning! Veronica returns to Neptune after Wallace needs a favour to save his reputation. But a surprise phone call could change everything she thought she knew... Disclaimer - not my characters or backstory! I'm only trying to create an alternative future...

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Genie for Hire: A Biff Andromeda Mystery is a private eye novel-with a paranormal twist. An ancient genie in a modern, buff body, Biff can't use his magical powers for his own benefit, so he opens a detective agency in a Miami suburb. A damsel in distress, photographer Sveta Pshkov, hires him to retrieve a stolen set of boudoir photos she took of a Russian mobster's wife-snapped for her boyfriend's pleasure, not her husband's. Biff's investigation uncovers the spreading tentacles of the Russian mafia. The case turns personal when he realizes that the dangerous female genie he has loved and lost over centuries has a desperate stake in the outcome. Joined by his companions, a resusciated squirrel and a magical sylph who takes the form of a butterfly, Biff follows his super-sensitive nose into hidden corners of South Florida and dark regions of human behavior. With his sarcastic wit, his ability to turn into a wisp of vapor, and magic as old as the ages, Biff battles a pack of ruthless criminals - and his own romantic obsession.

The Family Nidleton became renowned in 2007 for earning the title of "Visualist Family," a moniker meaning "Full of Visual." Mr. and Mrs. Niddleton were the proud parents of triplets named Charlotte, Lily, and Heather. They seemed the epitome of a perfect and happy family-until a terrifying tragedy struck. --- "Why can't I be perfect like both of my sisters..." Heather whispered to herself, tears rolling silently down her cheeks. "We're triplets, but..." her voice trailed off as her gaze landed on the knife. A chilling laugh escaped her lips. "It'll never work out..." she thought, smirking at her reflection in the blade.

Our young detective from New York named Detective Doh goes out of his way to help his ex girlfriend Mary get her kid back from a supposed crazy kidnapper.

Jimmy is a skeleton brought to life by a mad scientist for reasons Jimmy doesn't quite know. For days at a time the skeleton was strapped down to an operating table and left alone. He couldn't talk at the time and there wasn't much to look at except for a television in the laboratory. The television constantly played old noir detective movies like Boghart and Cagney. This is how Jimmy learned to talk. He began to emulate what he was watching on the tv, speaking in a style similar to a hard nosed private eye. Eventually Jimmy escaped after discovering that he was nothing more than a pile of living bones. Of course being a skeleton meant he'd have to hide. He stole a big trench coat, hat, and scarf in order to cover himself. There were so many questions plaguing his mind about what he was, who he was before he was a skeleton, and just what his maker was planning to do with him. That got him thinking, what would Sam Spade do? Living beneath a haberdashery for a while and learning how to sew from watching them eventually The skeleton made a makeshift disguise with gloves , glasses, the scarf, a wig, and a large brimmed hat to hide himself he set out to solve those mysteries himself. He adopted the name Jimmy Bones from his idol Jimmy Cagney and Bones because he was a skeleton. He found out he was rather good at solving petty crimes and the like. He had a knack for deductive reasoning and bad skeleton puns. So, eventually he saved up enough from the small crimes he'd helped solve to have an office space for James Bones Private Eye Oh yeah, his skeleton is imbued with a sort of living shadow that has a variety of uses. Usually it's just an extension of his mind giving life to his thoughts like having the shadow play out a crime scene as he's figuring it out and the like

The daughter of a police chief and the son of a dirty cop have their own private detective agency. One night, a routine investigation goes awry, putting the detectives on the trail of a dangerous, redheaded killer. They'll have to brave a contentious relationship with the local police to solve the case and capture the vicious vixen before she strikes again. Author's Note: I will post a new chapter every week.

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Disgraced physicist Shawn Ronin needs to keep solving problems. After his ivory tower life came crashing down around him, Shawn's compulsion to find hidden answers drove him to become a private investigator. Unfortunately, the career change doesn't end up straightening out his messy life or even net him much money. Instead, it just shines a light on how much more complicated human problems can be than anything found in a textbook. Presented with the opportunity to help another professor avoid a similar fate to his own, Shawn finds himself unable walk away. Returning to the university that forsook him, he uncovers more than just misconduct lurking in the ego-driven, high-achiever world where he used to thrive. None of Shawn's once Nobel Prize worthy papers can help him now. Can a man used to solving some of humanity's most complex problems learn to ask for help with his own?

What happens when down and out security guards Aquarius Jones and Eduardo Huerta get themselves into a whole mess of trouble just by working the grave yard shift at Puba's Stop & Shop on 3rd & Lexington. All they've ever wanted was to be respected members of the Springside Police Department or better yet superstar private eye detectives. Follow them through their many adventures as they wreck havoc across the tri-state area hoping to solve one crime at a time thus becoming the legendary Mighty Aquarius Jones and Eduardo the Great.

He makes dumb mistakes so you don't have to. "A great and humorous kids/young teen story with plenty of twists and tension." Entrada Publishing 15-year-old Krista Winnette worries about her dad, Drew. After all, he just lost his job, and Krista's mom just left him. Now all Drew has is a dwindling bank account, a ten-year-old car and a musty motel room he can barely afford. So he does what every unemployed man must do in this desperate situation: He becomes a private eye. Drew knows nothing about being a private eye, but how hard could it be? As he says in his Facebook ad: "You ever wondered how a private eye finds a missing person? Or trails a cheating husband? So have I! So hire me, and I'll figure it out! I'll try stuff the other guys won't even consider - 'cause I don't know any better!" As Drew goes about learning his new job, he finds himself a rather enthusiastic partner - Krista! Together, they investigate the case of a fading movie star who tragically fell to her death on the set. But was it an accident - or did someone take their "creative differences" a little too far? Join our two bumbling private detectives as they constantly scramble to stay afloat and sometimes even to stay alive. The story will keep you guessing right up to the surprise ending! If you like Theodore Boone, The Adventures of Jack Lime or Veronica Mars, you'll love My Dad, the Private Eye. Tweens, teens and even adults will get a thrill out of this middle grade detective series full of fun mystery and funny action. And if you like The Falling Star, check out the next book in the series, My Dad, the Private Eye: Keep on Truckin'. Drew and Krista get their first paid gig, tracking down a missing trucker. But when he turns up dead, and neither his employer nor his wife want to know why, our fledgling investigators get into some seriously sticky - and seriously dangerous - situations trying to crack the case. (Make sure to read it to the end for another surprise ending!)

Yeah, that's me. Jack Lovejoy, private eye. Don't judge a book by its cover, just like you don't judge a detective by his name. I've got an office downtown New York- the business is thriving here. Fortunate or unfortunate for me, you tell me. People walk in, they give me a case, I take it or don't. It's pretty simple. These are just a handful of the cases I've solved, all over the city.