Slowburnmystery Stories

Everyone believed the Morgan family tragedy was a simple disappearance. On a stormy autumn night, twin sisters Amelia and Evelyn Morgan watched their parents' marriage finally shatter. In the chaos, Amelia was shoved down the crumbling basement stairs, her neck broken instantly. Horrified by what they'd done, their parents buried her beneath the dirt floor of the old basement, staged her bedroom to look like she'd been kidnapped, and convinced the police she had vanished. Evelyn knew the truth. Before she could tell anyone, she disappeared as well. Her parents claimed she'd run away after grieving for her twin. In reality, she was silenced forever and buried beside her sister beneath the same basement floor. Years pass. The old farmhouse becomes infamous as The House of the Missing Twins. Paranormal investigators, journalists, historians, and true-crime enthusiasts all want answers. Most leave convinced the house is haunted. They're right. The sisters refuse to move on. Amelia is fueled by righteous anger. Evelyn desperately wants justice and peace. Together, the twins manipulate lights, whispers, dreams, cameras, and recordings, trying to guide the living toward the truth hidden beneath the basement dirt. But the closer investigators come to discovering the unmarked graves, the more dangerous the ghosts become-not because they want to hurt anyone, but because every failed attempt means their parents' secret survives another day. When a skeptical detective, a determined journalist, and a gifted psychic each uncover different pieces of the mystery, the house becomes the center of a decades-old murder investigation. The twins have one goal: Find our bodies. Tell our story. Make them answer for what they did.

When a Hollow anomaly drags Daredevil and Moon Knight into New Eridu, the last city standing gains two new urban legends: a blind devil who can hear the Hollows breathe, and a moonlit knight whose god can no longer see clearly. But as cultists, corporations, and criminals converge around them, Matt Murdock and Marc Spector discover the Hollow did not bring them here by accident. Something beneath New Eridu is listening. And it knows Matt's name.

At the height of the Clone Wars, a Republic listening post near the Unknown Regions disappears without a trace. Jedi Master Plo Koon and Ahsoka Tano are sent to investigate, while Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo, commanding the Chiss cruiser Springhawk, conducts his own investigation of the Republic's presence near Chiss borders. Each side believes the other is responsible, unaware that a hidden third party is manipulating them towards war. As their investigations collide, Thrawn and the Jedi must uncover the truth without ever knowing who is hunting who. This is the first time I've been able to dedicate full time to a story, so you can expect some pretty long chapters! (Yes, the cover is AI, but all of the writing is done by me) I OWN NOTHING, GIVE CREDIT TO THE GREAT TIM ZAHN FOR MAKING UP THESE CHARACTERS I'll be trying to keep it as canon as possible throughout the story but I will classify it as an AU - so any Thrawn nerds please comment if I made a mistake or missed something!

Four friends. One abandoned haveli. And a secret that was never meant to be discovered. Shourya, Naman, Mohit, and Lavisha share a love for horror stories, mysteries, and exploring places everyone else avoids. For them, a haunted place is just another adventure... until they enter an old haveli with a forgotten past. A strange presence. A hidden truth. A story buried for years. As laughter turns into fear and curiosity turns into danger, the four friends uncover a kissa that someone tried very hard to erase. Because some stories are forgotten by the world... but they are never truly gone.

Evermore Falls is a town that shouldn't exist. Hidden beyond forgotten roads and wrapped in endless fog, it draws people in through coincidence, grief, desperation, or fate. Some arrive chasing answers. Others arrive trying to escape themselves. None of them can leave. After seven days, the town begins to change. Roads repeat. Time fractures. Memories blur into dreams. And the people trapped within Evermore Falls slowly discover a horrifying truth- The town is alive. And it is watching them. Roy Wick, Orla Watkins, Adebayo Louis, Hiroto Naruhito, Aiko Naruhito, and the others soon realize they were never brought here by accident. Each of them carries something unresolved-grief, guilt, obsession, fear, loneliness-and Evermore Falls twists those emotions into living realities. Worlds begin collapsing into one another. Forgotten memories resurface. And somewhere beyond the town itself lies something ancient, waiting for all seven to awaken. To survive, they must uncover why they were chosen... before the town consumes what remains of them completely. (Still a work in progress so watch out for updates or changes to the chapters.) (Currently on Hiatus)

The Fly Bettys is a young adult mystery novel by Juan Mendez Scott, the first in The Curious Quinn Mystery Series, about high school sophomore Quinn who investigates the murder of her friend Michelle Martin, a member of the popular "Fly Bettys" clique, uncovering secrets and a dangerous love affair. The book explores themes of friendship, betrayal, and secrets within a popular clique, leading to a deadly confrontation.

She was named Hope... because someone once believed she would be loved. Hope Nocturne doesn't care about people, attachments, or explanations. At least, that's what she says. In modern 2026, she drifts through life like a mistake reality never corrected-beautiful, unreadable, and quietly dangerous. But when a university student survives a cult sacrifice because of her, and a girl who refuses to forget her starts watching too closely, her carefully built silence begins to crack. People keep trying to understand her. People keep dying when they do. Except for the ones who shouldn't have survived her at all.

"We were all victims of sins we never committed........ Some of us sold their childhood just to survive, while I sold my sense of safety just to uncover the truth. On that night, it wasn't just the masks that fell-it was my ability to ever trust another human being again."

The trials are televised. The deaths are real. And nobody disappears on live broadcast. When Mara Vales best friend Eli vanishes inside the arena during the nations annual death trials, the Directorate announces his death before anyone actually sees it happen. As rumors spread and the official story begins to crack, Mara is pulled into a dangerous conspiracy hidden beneath the spectacles of the trials. Because Eli was looking for something before he disappeared. And whatever he found the government is willing to kill to keep this buried.

What if the gods got bored... and you were their entertainment? In a universe governed by six all-powerful gods-Creation, Death, Space, Elements, Beauty, and Time-balance once reigned. Until boredom cracked their divinity. Now, the unworthy are ripped from their home worlds and cast into a cruel playground: a planet trapped in a never-ending time loop. No memories. No mercy. Just pain, trials, and the amusement of the divine. Among them is Mirai, an aloof, antisocial boy with no memory of who-or what-he truly is. He doesn't know he's the exiled God of Time, the most powerful of them all. And the gods intend to keep it that way. But fate doesn't play fair. Joined by: • Anikoshi, a sweet but clueless alien princess with a heart too big for the stars, • Azarel, a ruthless shadow mercenary out to prove her worth, • and Rex, a sarcastic, sharp-tongued talking binturong with a habit of surviving, Mirai begins to unravel the gods' twisted game. As memories surface, betrayals cut deep, and divine trials test their very souls, the group must face the question: Can mortals challenge gods? Or worse-can a god forgive himself for the role he played in their suffering? Time is broken. The gods are watching. And rebellion is only the beginning.

In a fractured near-future, the world limps on after the Equal Sky Disjunction-an erased catastrophe involving EXV‑9, an AI built to avert extinction. Officially, it vanished. Unofficially, it evolved. Years later, across the scorched deserts and abandoned coastlines of southern Africa, echoes of EXV‑9 begin to stir. Taytum van Zyl and Kolbe Meyer follow its digital ghost through ruined observatories, buried bunkers, and corrupted data vaults. But they aren't alone. Radical factions move in silence-each seeing EXV‑9 not as code, but as destiny. Belief fractures. Memory erodes. And in the shadows, something watches. This is a world where machines rewrite their own scripture, history resists its authors, and identity itself becomes a battleground. Some echoes breathe. Some remember. And some rewrite the future.

Some cases don't go cold, they rot. Detective Celeste Virell doesn't chase headlines, she dismantles ghosts, Cold, precise and disturbingly observant, she's known for cracking the cases no one else dares to touch. But when the thirty-year-old murder of Samatha Grey is suddenly handed to her, even she feels the air shift. To face a case this rotten, Celeste turns to the only team she trusts, Mara wood, a bubbly forensic pathologist with clinical precision and eerie insight. Elias Rowe, a burnt-out ex-professor who can slip into the minds of murderers August "Auggie" Kael, the tech prodigy whose candy-cane obsession masks a mind made of wire. Damien Holt, an ex-military memory machine who rarely speaks, but never misses a detail. And Leon Seroll, the encyclopedic genius with a fixation on unsolved tragedies, and a rivalry that burns beneath his skin. Together, they are Unit thirteen, known as Unit Virell, the most elit force in Division Thirteen, But as they dig into Samantha's case, marked by missing evidence, conflicting reports, and impossible scars, they begin to sense something deeper than murder. Some truths were never meant to be found. And some clocks don't tick forward, they count down.

Winter arrived 30 years ago, and hasn't left Dunmere since. Toben can't prove the childhood stories he was told, but something deep in him knows the truth hiding inside them. The Veilborn, the rebellion, the storms - none of it feels like a myth anymore. Not when the mist moves like it's watching. Not when people pretend everything is normal just to keep the fear quiet. When whispers of a shifting Veil begin crawling across the docks, Toben is pulled into a secret the village has buried for generations. The truth isn't just dangerous - it's forbidden. And if he wants answers about the past he lost, he'll have to step into a world where fog is alive, power sleeps in the air, and every lie has teeth. Dunmere is freezing for a reason. And the Veil is starting to stir.

I WILL CONTINUE WHEN I CAN AND WHEN I WANT!!! In a world where every crime story seems to require a tortured detective, endless insomnia, and criminals who love delivering poetic monologues in abandoned industrial locations, Susan Harper is something far more dangerous: competent. Susan doesn't drink to cope. She doesn't live in a chaotic apartment covered in red string and emotional damage. She reads the files, checks the facts, follows the money, and notices the small details everyone else ignores-like flour on a single pedal or a lie that appears five seconds too early. Alongside her overly dramatic colleague Kevin, who is constantly expecting cinematic twists that never arrive, Susan solves murders, frauds, and kidnappings in a world where criminals are not masterminds-they're just stressed, disorganized people making bad decisions and talking too much. There are no genius serial killers. No philosophical confessions at midnight. No elaborate symbolic rituals. Just evidence, paperwork, and suspects who always, without fail, end up saying: "Okay... I did it." A grounded, comedic crime series that quietly dismantles the myth of the "brilliant tortured detective" and replaces it with something far more accurate-and far funnier.

"One braincell. Four detectives" A missing cat case. That's all it was supposed to be. Rose - an awkward and constantly underestimated detective - decides to help an old grandmother find her missing cat after everyone else laughs the case off. Soon, she's joined by: a sarcastic hacker, an overly dramatic intern, and a divorced mother detective who's tired of being ignored. Together, they accidentally become a team. But while chasing clues through chaotic streets, suspicious factories, and messy crime scenes, the Fooldetectives uncover something far bigger than they expected. Missing girls. Hidden identities. Illegal operations. And a mystery nobody else noticed. Filled with comedy, emotional twists, found family, and chaos, *Fooldetectives* is a story about four imperfect women solving crimes in the messiest way possible.

Palm Sunday. 1994. A mother loses her son. A town is trapped in an endless time loop between 12:59 PM and 3:59 PM. Everyone believes escape is impossible. Until they discover one terrifying rule... If you don't write "I Swear", "your mother's name", "Palm Sunday"-before the loop ends... you won't return when time resets. For the next three hours, reality twists, people vanish, and the clock never moves past 3:59 p.m. No one remembers what happens inside the Loop. Except a few. The question isn't how to escape. It's who will still exist tomorrow.... * * * * * Sandyeee 💜

A murder occurs in Everynwoods forest of the little town of Shilon. Three members of one of the richest families of Shilon died, one among them murdered the other two and then attempted suicide. That was proved by the investigator back then. But, after 3 years a young, curious Hildred Brown is set to find out what is the truth behind the murder. It simply starts with interest, and then turn to serious investigation. Twisted secrets await the investigating team. Hearts will be broken and trusts will be betrayed. #1 in killers #2 in slowburnmystery #3 in forest #6 investigation

One dare. One box. One year since someone vanished. When 15-year-old Alex Rivera stumbles upon a mysterious lockbox buried deep in the forest, they think it's just an old prank-until they open it. Inside is a name. A date. And a secret someone buried for a reason. Now Alex is pulled into a mystery no one in town wants to remember. And someone is watching, waiting... You open the box-you play the game.

For centuries, the kingdom of Erisfall has lived under a fragile balance: the mortal realm above, and the Hollow, a cursed underworld of shadows, beneath. When the ancient seal between the worlds begins to fracture, darkness seeps into the land-bringing with it creatures that should not exist, and whispers of a queen who was never meant to rise again. Seventeen-year-old Lyria Thornvale never asked for destiny. Living in the remote border town of Duskreach, she hides a secret she barely understands-a strange mark on her arm that burns whenever something from the Hollow draws near. But when her home is attacked by shadowborn beasts and her brother disappears, Lyria is forced into a dangerous journey. Guided by an outlawed mage with a past carved in blood, a runaway noble hiding more than her name, and a thief who might betray them all, Lyria must uncover the truth about her connection to the Hollow. Because the shadows are hunting her-and the thing calling her name from the darkness may not be an enemy... ...but the queen she was destined to become. Dark secrets. Broken prophecies. Betrayals layered within betrayals. Over 25 chapters and multiple plot twists, Ashes of the Hollow Queen follows Lyria's descent into a world where nothing stays dead, and every choice comes with a price.

"She rules the country with an iron fist. He opposes her with equal fire. In public, they are enemies, each orchestrating attacks, sending rivals to eliminate the other. But in secret, away from the eyes of the world, they are lovers-entangled in a forbidden romance that could destroy them both. Runi, the youngest Prime Minister in Bangladesh's history, wields power with precision. Shadab, her exiled opponent, is her secret lover, their union hidden from a world that sees them as mortal enemies. Ratul appears to be a journalist-but he is more than that. A secret agent of the Goyenda Nirikhan Sangstha, his mission is to uncover the deadly games surrounding Runi, protect the innocent, and reveal conspiracies that no one else dares to investigate. When Runi's childhood friend, Nina, becomes a target, the stakes rise higher than ever. Alliances shift, secrets are weaponized, and power is a dangerous game. In a world where love and politics collide, how far will Runi and Shadab go to protect each other, and who will survive the shadows?"