Sleuth Stories

Ever think you'd be on the run with a famous journalist and a retired sea captain? Well, you are now! After being captured from your home and dragged to Brussels, Belgium, you are soon rescued by the famous Tintin and the criminals are put back behind bars. However, the reason behind the kidnapping is still a mystery, so Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock make it their mission to help you discover the truth, unaware a new enemy would arise, seeking restoration of his title and becoming a more significant threat to you and Europe than you would realize! Will you survive the risky road ahead and become an adventurer, too? Or is this sudden turn of events too dangerous to overcome? • • • Disclaimer: I don't own any of the pictures, characters, places, etc., that were in the movie, 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn,' or the comics, tv shows, games, or anything owned by Hergé or Spielberg at all! I only own the plot, drawings, characters, places, etc., that I made up unless it does contain characters of these universes, etc.

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?

A supernatural sleuth, angels, werewolves and my friend Giacomo. The werewolves can be a metaphor for panic attacks. Or they can just be werewolves. Giacomo cursed by werewolves, siphons angel energy to break his nightmare torment. Supernatural sleuth Julius Q Bygone helps him wield his grandfather's axe in a dream duel to end the curse.

An asset to President Ann Kinji in the past, Serena is snatched in Germany and brought back to the United States for a covert mission run by former government agents. As the case draws her ever closer to the conspiracy to kill the president, she reaches out to the criminally insane for help, sinking deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole where the bodies are piling up and nothing is as it seems. Is there hope for this divided nation riddled with conspiracies, power-hungry government and criminal politicians? Can Serena save the day with her unlikely cast of vigilante and rogue agent heroes?

The Dominant Motive is the first novel in the Alex Goldfinger mystery series written by Jack D. Kelly. Alex Goldfinger is an office manager/private investigator-in-training that inherits her boss's private investigation firm. Overnight she goes from office manager to private investigator. Alex's first solo case is to locate a man suspected of killing his wife twenty years earlier.

It was supposed to be a fun-filled long weekend. A luxury yacht filled with beautiful people. Stars of the silver screen. A movie director. A spiritualist. A hedonist. A doctor and his girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong? A murder mystery whodunit set in 1920, The Enchanted Ingénue is dark tale of intrigue. When a beautiful spiritualist who claims to talk to the dead is found poisoned, Madison Quest must find the murderer. But even Mother Nature seems intent on stopping him. A colossal storm is brewing in the middle of an uncaring ocean. A yacht full of suspects who all have secrets. Will the culprit be stopped?

❝ a dystopian novel where the world revolves around chess and people's status in life are defined by their elo ratings. ❞ ── ･ ✦ ♕ ✦ ･ ── Caissa, a struggling low-rated player, met a self-proclaimed detective who saved her from getting executed in exchange for a cooperation to take down a Grandmaster who operates an illegal human chess game underground.

Val Kamara is not new to loneliness on Valentine's Day. It's something she has experienced since she was old enough to know what the day stands for. Except this one is not about to end in the same boring way as the others. A girl turns up dead and she decides to investigate, despite the fact that police don't want her interference. But, how can she not interfere when it involves rubbing shoulders with the most handsome policeman she has ever met?

1930s-style fanfiction novelet sequel to the original 1929-text The Mystery of Cabin Island, everybody's favorite Hardy Boys winter adventure. More ice-boating on the bay, more mysterious happenings on Cabin Island, an unexpected thrilling ride to New York City on the Flying Express, and New Years Eve spent at a gathering of a sinister cult of danger in an old Manhattan warehouse!

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 to burn everything but the dress, and on Sunday she moves from Dustin's apartment to her 80-year-old grandmother's house in the country. She's looking forward to returning to work and normalcy as a massage therapist at Rejuvenate, a popular day spa in a Miami suburb, but when she arrives Monday morning, a shirtless dead body has been discovered in the salt therapy room. The body belongs to one of her former clients. Six months ago, he'd been so obnoxious, she had to call the police on him, and because he's never worked with anyone else at the spa, it means Robin is the number one suspect. Quickly, Robin decides she needs to figure out who murdered him. Being sent to prison makes Robin's disastrous weekend seem as trivial as a bad pedicure. The only bright spot in this increasingly dark picture is that Robin's favorite clien

It's murder in the Roaring Twenties. The world is changing faster than the speeding trains that crisscross the country. The 1920s are a dangerous time. Booze is illegal, and mobsters are making a killing off Prohibition. The good times are in high gear. But is it all a façade? A house of cards? Jack Delancy is a high-roller who appears to have it all: a mansion, a family, and even a moll on the side. He has his fingers in a speakeasy and other lucrative, but shady enterprises. He spends his fortune as if money is free, and there is no tomorrow. But there is always tomorrow. Cupid's Archer is the second book in the Cupid/Archer detective mystery series. Phalen Archer and Florian Valentine Flix on the trail of a murderer. Follow these two sleuths as they set out to solve this whodunit mystery! The Cupid/Archer Mystery Series: 1. Beastly House 2. Cupid's Archer (A Cupid/Archer Mystery) 3. The Dust of Death (A Cupid/Archer Mystery) 4. Ashes of Yesterday (A Cupid/Archer Mystery)

Noa Drury isn't your average teenager. She passes messages on from the "other side" to the living, but when she gets a cryptic message to deliver to someone about to be convicted of a murder he might not have committed, she and her best friend/spirit guide, Max, must race to save Jake Burchell from a lifetime of imprisonment by solving the original crime. But can she believe everything Jake says?

When asked in the future about her sister's cases, Isabel Winter would always refer to the Incident Concerning The Alsatian Dog. Nobody really knew why, but they all knew about Isabel's hatred of theatre people, or at least they did after she had finished talking to them about it. But when old friends unite with new, could anyone expect anything other than a whole lot of trouble? -The fifth book in the Alianna Winter series Her earlier cases: 1.Death At Scarlet Leaf 2.The Merryweather Jewel Thefts 3.A House On The Hill 4.Murder Is At Hand Her later cases: 6.At The Plaza Majestic 7.Madame Juror 8.A Murder Shall Commence 9.The Impossible Poisoning 10.The Final Endgame The Toby Smart Spin-offs: What Makes A Detective What Breaks A Detective

Alianna Winter is on the run. London is no longer a safe place for her to be. She, Newham, Isabel and Fisher have fled to Hettie's house in the countryside, in a hope that it will buy them more time before Stephenson catches up to them. But when Allie suddenly falls dangerously ill, it seems that nature might beat her potential assassins to it. Or is there something more man-made at work? -The ninth book in the Alianna Winter series. Her earlier cases: 1. Death At Scarlet Leaf 2. The Merryweather Jewel Thefts 3. A House On The Hill 4. Murder Is At Hand 5. The Incident Concerning The Alsatian Dog 6. At The Plaza Majestic 7. Madame Juror 8. A Murder Shall Commence Her later cases: 10.The Final Endgame The Toby Smart Spin-offs: What Makes A Detective What Breaks A Detective

Meet the Mahoney's, one of the richest families in the state of North Carolina. Owners of the wildly successful Mahoney's line of restaurants, they are a picture-perfect family and pillars of the community of Concord-until the morning the owner, Trent, is found dead in the middle of the highly secure Mahoney's, Inc. parking lot. There are no witnesses and no suspects. Trent seemingly had no enemies, leaving the police baffled. The only person who appears on the police's radar is Trent's assistant, Lucas Caine-the person who found Trent and the last person to see Trent alive. When Lucas finds himself in the crosshairs as a potential suspect, he launches his own investigation using his intimate knowledge of the Fitzgerald family to try to clear his name. He finds a dark side to this family no one knew about, and what he finds could lead to his death. * Named a Notable Book Set in North Carolina by the University of North Carolina (2013)

In BEFORE HE SEES (A Mackenzie White Mystery-Book 2), FBI agent-in-training Mackenzie White struggles to make her mark in the FBI Academy in Quantico, trying to prove herself as a woman and as a transplant from Nebraska. Hoping she has what it takes to become an FBI agent and leave her life in the Midwest behind for good, Mackenzie just wants to keep a low profile and impress her superiors. But all that changes when the body of a woman is found in a garbage dump. The murder bears shocking similarities to the Scarecrow Killer-the case that made Mackenzie famous in Nebraska-and in the frantic race against time to stop a new serial killer, the FBI decides to break protocol and give Mackenzie a chance on the case. It is Mackenzie's big break, her chance to impress the FBI-but the stakes have never been higher. Not everyone wants her on the case, and everything she touches seems to go wrong. As the pressure mounts and the killer strikes again, Mackenzie finds herself as a lone voice in a sea of experienced agents, and she soon realizes she is in way over heard. Her entire future with the FBI is in jeopardy. As tough and determined as Mackenzie is, as brilliant as she is in hunting down killers, this new case proves an impossible riddle, something just beyond her reach. She may not even have time to crack it as her own life falls apart around her. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, BEFORE HE SEES is book #2 in a riveting new series-with a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night. Book #3 in the Mackenzie White Mystery series will be available soon.

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. It's a lot of work but walking through the countryside to deliver orders to grateful fairies is rewarding. There's just one problem, the sheriff suspects she might have followed in her Grandfather's footsteps by becoming a smuggler. And then...An old college flame named Larkin shows up, now working for the very sheriff who is always watching her like a hawk. Still, she might actually enjoy being under Larkin's watchful eye. Except, to add fuel to the fire a murder threatens to upend the peace between the fairy kingdoms and her Grandfather quickly becomes the top suspect. The paperback version of this book includes multiple pictures of the Wiltshire fairies for you to enjoy

**IM WRITING A TEEN FIC TOO** Join Elizabeth as she travels to France, finds out about a bunch of notes, visits the graveyard at midnight and finds a secret trapdoor! Read to see how she unravels the mystery of the strange notes!

What if Nancy Drew and Frank and Joe Hardy didn't know each other and became enemies? A detective agency is being busted open. It's called A.T.A.C. - American Teens Against Crime. Nancy's father, Carson Drew asks her to investigate his two prime suspects in this operation scandal: Frank and Joe Hardy in Bayport, New York. A.T.A.C. is sending the Hardy Boys on a secret mission to stop a world famous lawyer from finding them. Their job? Convince Nancy Drew, his daughter, to leave A.T.A.C. alone and undercover. Is this all a big misunderstanding? Or are Frank, Joe and Nancy all in big trouble? Book 1 in the What If? Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys mystery trilogy