Procedural Stories

Galen Rose calls himself psychic. Shannara Chase calls him insufferable. The truth is buried somewhere beneath a conspiracy neither is willing to admit. She doesn't speak. He doesn't stop. The dead, unfortunately, have opinions about both. When a confirmed extraterrestrial sighting leaves a man suspended between life and death, the government scrambles to erase its tracks. Armed with nothing but an antique notepad and a lethal amount of audacity, they do the one thing they were explicitly told not to. They start asking questions. She communicates in notepad scrawls, sign language, and structural violence. He communicates in devastating wordplay, clinical deduction, and a smile that has talked its way out of three countries and into considerably more trouble. They are not a love story. They are a hate story. Best friends who almost hate each other. Enemies who would burn the world down for each other. Trapped in a high-stakes whodunit masked by lies, ancient secrets, and a mystery that doesn't want to be found, they must survive a partnership held together by endless bickering and a slow-burning tension neither can afford to name. The closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to each other. Neither is ready for either. Together they're either going to crack this impossible case or completely destroy each other. (Probably both.) ⚠️ Side effects include: UFO obsession, mutual animosity, conspiracy-induced insomnia, slow burn that will ruin you, enemies-to-lovers tension, and an unhealthy attachment to one devastatingly dangerous mentalist golden boy. Let the case begin. 🌹⚡ Ranked #1 in UFOs and #2 Procedural, #12 in Crime fiction, 3 days into the launch!

Unfettered, Free market Capitalism. The best of all possible worlds right? When Wendy Gazab moves into a luxury apartment complex where friendship has a credit score, oxygen is sold in premium tiers, and economists explain human suffering with perfect calm. Everyone else calls this optimization. Darkly funny, disturbingly plausible, and emotionally surgical, How Do Economists Fart? is Candide for the 21st century. A procedural horror about bureaucracy, behavioral capitalism, and the terrifying possibility that the systems destroying your life are functioning exactly as designed.

Following the events of the Specialists' battles, Blossom, the Queen of Domino and keeper of the Vortex of Flames, is living a double life. Years ago, while hiding on Earth to understand her human roots, she worked closely with the CID (Crime Investigation Department) in India as a brilliant consultant. They bonded like family, but the CID never knew her magical secret. In the present day, the Wizards of the Black Circle attack Alfea, hunting for the last fairy on Earth. Knowing they must protect Earth, Blossom, Bloom, and the Winx head to Gardenia to find Roxy, the Fairy of Animals. Blossom's twin brother Blaze and her fiancé, Aleron, lead the Specialists to follow and protect them. Meanwhile, a ruthless, high-profile criminal escapes the CID's custody in Mumbai and flees to Gardenia. ACP Pradhyuman and his team track the fugitive across the globe. In Gardenia, the CID's paths cross with Blossom. Just as the CID closes in on their criminal, the Wizards of the Black Circle launch a devastating attack to capture Roxy. To save ACP Pradhyuman and her CID family from being crushed by dark magic, Blossom is forced to transform into her Believix form right in front of them-revealing her true identity as the Queen of Domino and the Fairy of the Vortex of Flames.

Hatsarin mota a cikin daji ya kusan zama ajalin Dr. Hussain, har sai lokacin da wata inuwa... HASEENA ta bayyana da ceto a gare shi, sannan ta bace kamar hadari-ba ta bar komai ba sai takalmi guda daya tak. A matsayinsa na fitaccen likitan kwakwalwa, ya kuduri niyyar gano macen da ta cece ci rayuwarsa tare da warkar da raunukan zuciyarta, amma abubuwa sun hargitse lokacin da ya gano cewa: macen da ta cece shi, ita ce wacce kaninsa Detective Khalid ke nema ruwa a jallo. Tsakanin zuciyarsa, aikinsa, aminta, da shari'a, wanne zai zaba? Shin Hussain zai iya tseratar da zuciyar da aka riga aka farfasa, ko kuwa asirin da ke boye a cikin 'Inuwar Baya' zai hadiye su gaba daya?"

Nieokiełznany wolnorynkowy kapitalizm. Najlepszy z wszystkich możliwych światów, prawda? Kiedy Wendy Gazab wprowadza się do luksusowego kompleksu apartamentowego, w którym przyjaźń posiada ocenę kredytową, tlen sprzedawany jest w pakietach premium, a ekonomiści z doskonałym spokojem objaśniają ludzkie cierpienie, wszyscy inni nazywają to optymalizacją. Mrocznie zabawna, niepokojąco prawdopodobna i emocjonalnie chirurgiczna, *Jak ekonomiści pierdzą?* jest Candide XXI wieku. To proceduralny horror o biurokracji, kapitalizmie behawioralnym oraz przerażającej możliwości, że systemy niszczące twoje życie funkcjonują dokładnie tak, jak zostały zaprojektowane.

At Manhattan's 16th Precinct, the Special Victims Unit handles cases most people refuse to face-crimes that leave scars far beyond the scene. Officer Nevaeh Vaako, the youngest in the NYPD with a rare intellect and instinct few can match, is determined to prove she belongs among the city's toughest investigators. Every case pushes her deeper into a world where truth is complicated, victims need more than justice, and the emotional toll never fades. At home, her life is just as complex. Newly married to Leonard Vaako, a rising defense attorney, Nevaeh finds herself on the opposite side of the courtroom from the man she loves. As their careers collide, lines blur between right and wrong, loyalty and duty. With every case, Nevaeh must decide how much of herself she's willing to give-to the badge, to the victims, and to the man waiting for her on the other side of the law.

Behind the reinforced perimeters of Tokyo's elite Special Assault Team and the Ground Self-Defense Force, numbers govern survival. Variables are calculated to the decimal point; human heartbeats are expected to run with the sterile neutrality of a machine. But when a devastating deployment shatters the tactical grid, two of the state's highest-performing assets are left stranded on a dangerous threshold. For Saeki Masaharu, a veteran operator who has anchored his entire sanity to division protocol, and Fujimoto Sayaka, a razor-sharp communications specialist trained to map clarity out of chaos, the ultimate hazard isn't the mission-it is the sudden, inconvenient intrusion of human feelings that no training manual can suppress. Amid the smoke and code names, an unspoken, fragile gravity has pulled them together, turning a professional alignment into a quiet, heavily guarded anchor. Narimasu is a meticulous procedural drama that strips away cinematic glamour to expose the raw, metallic friction of individuals bound by unyielding chains of command. This highly atmospheric journey navigates the rain-slicked concrete of high-risk operations and the equally unforgiving, lemon-scented boardrooms of institutional judgment. It is a story told in the heavy ballast of a surrendered sidearm, the precise frequency of an encrypted transmission, and the wordless, unarmored glances that bureaucracy can never fully erase. A hyper-realistic exploration of duty and the profound weight of choices made in a split second, the narrative moves with deliberate, haunting precision. It is a slow burn but the impact lingers-long after the tactical nets go cold, the pens click, and the smoke clears to leave two survivors facing the quiet aftermath of their own humanity.

First short story in the Fiscal series. In the quiet, shadowed office above a courthouse in the Lothians, Procurator Fiscal Advocate Depute Fiona McGregor faces a case that could define her career - and test her integrity. A powerful man stands accused of years of harassment, and the evidence against him seems damning. But as Fiona delves deeper into the investigation, disturbing inconsistencies emerge. The narrative of victim and perpetrator begins to unravel, revealing a web of manipulation and deceit that shakes her faith in the system she serves. With the weight of justice pressing down on her shoulders, and under pressure from her superiors to secure a conviction, Fiona must navigate the murky waters of truth and lies. How far will she go to uphold the principles of justice when the stakes are this high?

🔥 The Last Confession: Letters of Fire A Crime Thriller | Romantic Suspense | Action-Packed Mystery Some sins demand justice. Others demand fire. When a decorated police officer is found burned alive in a derelict warehouse, Detective Rayna Cole is thrust into the most disturbing case of her career. A cryptic letter addressed directly to her lies among the ashes-signed by someone the media quickly dubs The Confessor. Then another cop dies, and another letter arrives. Each message drips with accusation. Each death is more brutal than the last. And all signs point to a killer who knows Rayna intimately. Forced to team up with her former lover and disgraced ex-partner Aidan Reeve, Rayna must unravel a twisted web of revenge, corruption, and buried secrets. But Aidan isn't just a painful memory-he's a walking reminder of a raid gone wrong and a love that nearly destroyed them both. As the killer's trail ignites into a citywide conspiracy and an underground purge of dirty cops, Rayna and Aidan find themselves hunted, betrayed from within, and clinging to a rekindled passion they thought they'd lost forever. Now, the Confessor has one last letter to deliver. And Rayna must make an unthinkable choice: Justice... or the man she still loves. --- 📘 Perfect for fans of: Karin Slaughter's Will Trent series Tana French's The Dublin Murder Squad Romantic thrillers with moral gray zones like The Punisher or Killing Eve High-stakes cat-and-mouse thrillers with heat, heart, and haunting secrets

When a woman flees to police explaining she, along with a captive, escaped her murderous husband, an investigation and media frenzy unveils the secrets of a Missouri man and divides his small community.

In the year 2000, a 27 year old Thomas Etheridge was disappeared and murdered by a criminal named Buck Douglas and he was found dead in an abandoned warehouse after his kidnapping and murder case. 15 years later in 2015, a group of college students were settling for the class before talking about Thomas Etheridge, a person who was disappeared and murdered by an unidentified criminal in 2000.

Homicide Detective Ned Danes discovers that an ambitious Deputy D.A. has concealed evidence of an accused murderer's innocence in order to secure a headline-grabbing conviction. Danes torpedoes the corrupt Deputy D.A.'s case, and for his honesty, Danes is exiled to the tiny, basement office of the Cold Case Squad. Working in his forgotten outpost Danes becomes obsessed with finding the real killer whom the Deputy D.A.’s scheme has allowed to run free. But, just as he seems to be closing in, Danes receives a plea for help from an old friend. FBI agent Phillip Abbott has been put on leave for his last sixty days before his forced retirement. He has that long to catch a drug-cartel hit man whose specialty is murdering entire families. Completely alone, Abbott needs a courageous cop like Ned Danes to back him up. While Danes knows that Abbott has a seventeen-year-old adopted daughter, it is only after Danes agrees to help catch the killer that he discovers that the hit man murdered the girl’s entire family. Abbott promised her that he would get the monster no matter what it took and Danes soon learns that Abbott is willing to do anything, including breaking the law and possibly going to prison, to keep that promise. And after Danes and Abbot do all that, Ned still has a killer of his own to catch. Find this book at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/175650 www.amazon.com/The-Concrete-Kiss-David-Grace/dp/143444113X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346433583&sr=8-1&keywords=the+concrete+kiss