Whodunit Stories

Jenny Cartwright was the kind of girl everyone in Willow Creek claimed to love-sweet, helpful, always smiling. She was a straight-A student and part of the popular clique at Willow Creek High. But unlike the typical high school queen bee, Jenny never mocked or bullied anyone. She treated everyone with kindness, regardless of their background, social standing, or quirks. She had plenty of friends-and, as far as anyone knew, not a single enemy. But a week before junior prom, Jenny's body was found in a decaying alley on the edge of town-beaten, bruised, and horrifyingly mutilated. She'd been perfectly fine the day before. So what happened to her? Who could have done this-and why? Highest ranking: No# 1 in INVESTIGATION. #1 in SOLVE. #1 in SOLVING. #11 in DECEPTION. #1 in MURDER MYSTERY

By sunrise, the queen was dead. They found Chloe Monroe's body behind the football bleachers-her signature pink nails caked with dirt, her phone shattered beside her like glass promises. The police said it was murder. The students said it was karma. At Crescent High, Chloe wasn't just popular-she was power wrapped in perfume and cruelty. The kind of girl who smiled at you just before she ruined your life. She could make someone disappear from the social food chain with a single rumor, and she loved doing it. But beneath the perfect hair, the designer bags, and the fake apologies, Chloe had built herself an army of enemies. Everyone had a story, a reason, a scar. A girl she exposed. A boy she humiliated. A friend she betrayed. A teacher she made loose his job. So when word spread that she was gone, nobody cried. Not really. They whispered. They speculated. Some even smiled. Because in Crescent High, everyone hated Chloe Monroe. The only mystery left- was who hated her enough to kill her. ★.·.·.·.★.·.·.·.·★ IMPRESSIVE RANKINGS: #1 in Solve, Solving, highschool mystery thriller and teen thriller all in December 2025 #1 in SOLVE 23/12/25 #2 in CASE 26/12/25 #2 in SOLVING 27/12/25 #2 in INTERROGATION 27/12/25 #1 in TEEN THRILLER 18/01/26 #8 in WHODUNNIT 14/02/26

The Mysterious Case at Madris: Case 2 After the stage incident, Madris High went back to normal since the alleged killer had been caught. Or so it seemed. There's a rumor that they are still haunted by the same haunting, however this time, they knew where to start: the past. And that past lies beneath Kalye Arcanus.

Private investigator Tom Hart is hired to find who murdered mob enforcer Tony Dietz. The trail leads through jealous lovers, crooked cops, and a loan shark with everything to lose. In a city of neon and lies, Hart must uncover the truth before the next body drops-his own, maybe tonight.

Every December, people are disappearing in the mountains of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. When a grieving girl nearly freezes to death in the woods, she's saved by a monster that shouldn't be allowed to exist-and hunted by things far worse than the bears that everyone is warned of. As families gather in snowboard cabins and creatures awaken at night, she searches for the truth behind what saved her... while fighting feelings for someone whose hands may already be stained with blood. Some monsters kill to survive. Others kill to protect their secrets. - This is a short story of warming up a frozen heart. - This is the very first drafts of my novel, they will be a bit messy. I will be publishing 2,000 word average chapters bi-weekly, and editing/shifting around old chapters whenever I see fit. My goal for this short novel is 20 chapters and 40,000 words total. I genuinely appreciate all suggestions and encouragement and I aim to respond to every bit of it in the best ways that I can. #38 horror-thriller #17 Monster

In a city where a single flower is worth more than a man's life, some secrets are deadly enough to kill for. Amsterdam, 1637. At the height of the insane Tulip Mania, a group of the city's wealthiest speculators gather on a lavish barge, De Vergulde Lelie (the Gilded Lily), for a secret auction. The prize: the Semper Augustus, a tulip bulb so rare it could buy a palace. But before the first bid is cast, the night is shattered by a scream. The host, a ruthless and widely hated speculator, is found murdered. The priceless bulb is gone. Trapped on the barge by the frozen canals, a handful of suspects are locked in a cage of opulence and fear: the bitter rival on the brink of ruin, the indebted English lord, and the vengeful farmer who claims the bulb was stolen from him first. The city watch sees a simple case of greed. But they're not looking closely enough. Signor Alvise Grimaldi, a disgraced Venetian glassmaker living in exile, sees what the others miss. He's not a detective; he's an artist with an eye for fatal flaws. While everyone else is blinded by the missing bulb, Grimaldi is drawn to the real heart of the crime: the silent, stolen glances between the victim's beautiful, trapped wife, Katarina, and the brilliant, obsessive painter, Frans van Loo. Their forbidden love is a secret far more dangerous than any financial debt. As Grimaldi peels back the layers of deception, he realizes the murder wasn't a simple robbery. It was a crime of passion, a desperate act disguised to look like greed. Now, he's in a silent duel with a killer who is just as much an artist of deception as Grimaldi is of glass. In a world gone mad with speculation, can a broken artist expose a truth hidden in a single drop of paint before the ice thaws and a devastating secret sinks them all?

Life beyond the dome is about to change for the population. The council has no choice but to prepare for the uprising of the dome and the true nature of Mary Fairchild is feared to be discovered. Something takes place that forces her to break free and step into the forbidden lands where the hollow resides. Will she or won't see find what she's looking for? Only time will tell.

Two years after the events of Pine Grove, Tatum is now at college, although under a new name to avoid being known, but someone finds out. Back in Pine Grove, Sidney also finds herself as a target once again, but this time, something feels a lot different.

What would you do if you found out nothing in your life is as it seems? Grace never expected to be attacked after a night out, let alone wake up in a stranger's house the morning after. But that's only the beginning. When she discovers her family has been receiving threatening letters from an anonymous writer, Grace realizes the safety her wealthy life once provided is completely gone. As more secrets begin to surface, she starts questioning everything and everyone she thought she knew, deciding to take matters into her own hands. A decision made to save her father, her only family. A decision that will bring her closer to danger, but one she won't walk away from. Even if it means risking her life. The stakes have never been higher: is Grace ready to face what's coming?

Celia Jones can talk to the dead, but getting on with them is a different story. She always has at least three spirits following her around, complaining about their relatives, or the inadequacy of their funeral arrangements. The latest is a murdered actress, Maude Domby, but she's less interested in denouncing her killer than in accusing the understudy of stealing her favourite pearls. When the charming but utterly fraudulent medium Stanley Winter holds a séance to contact Maude, Maude insists she and Celia should attend, to see people mourning her 'properly'. But the séance ends up implicating an innocent woman, and now Stanley Winter is banging on Celia's door, begging her to help him find Maude's real killer. Unfortunately, helping Stanley Winter could lead Celia to confront her other power - the one that's both lighter and infinitely darker than talking to the dead. ONC Prompt: 72. A real necromancer sits in on a fake séance.

25-year-old Grace Avery is a stunning woman working as a detective/investigator. Due to her looks, she often gets sexist remarks from her colleagues, seen only as an object of praise and beauty rather than a fellow detective. Annoyed and frustrated, she goes to an old friend for help and assistance, asking for a partner who doesn't care about her looks and has the brains to work with her, to which she learns that there is a person who could help her, the problem lays in the fact that, that person is the very same man who Grace knew and hated in high school, Basil M. House. Will Grace continue to hate his guts? Is Basil the same man whom Grace knew in High school? And will their relationship change? This is a reimagining of Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Besides being a reimagining, it's also a composite of different mystery stories and movies that I loved, so don't be surprised if some of the cases or puzzles look familiar. Apologies for the grammar mistakes:( Really enjoyed writing this:) This story is also on royal road

This is a debut that will manipulate you. Lie to you. Gorgeously. Margaret Salvatore has always seen the world differently. At Ravenwood Academy-an elite boarding school where science is revered like faith-her unsettling visions of danger before it strikes are no longer just intuition. They may be the only weapon she has when the Academy's greatest minds begin to fall. Caught between two rivals-the calculating, methodical Brian, and the dazzling, magnetic Sebastian-Margaret must navigate not only the volatile currents of love and loyalty but also the razor's edge of survival. As the shadow of fear deepens, Margaret must decide how to wield her visions, whom to trust, and how far she's willing to go to outthink a murderer who has outsmarted the masters themselves . At Ravenwood, knowledge is power. It might also be the reason you die.

Felicity is slowly losing her mind and her parents are not helping at all. Unknown calls and awkward interactions make her question if she's actually sane. In the midst of all the chaos, a boy shows up and she realizes she feels safe when she's with him but there's more to him than meets the eye.

Maeve never expected to become the prime suspect in her best friend Riley's murder. She must navigate whispered accusations, mounting evidence, and the crushing doubt of those closest to her. Determined to prove her innocence, Maeve dives into a twisted web of secrets, lies, and betrayal, uncovering the darker truths about Riley-and those around her. With danger closing in and allies hard to find, Maeve must race against time to expose the real killer before she becomes their next victim. Will she solve the mystery before it solves her?

SEQUENCE SERIES BOOK 1| TRILOGY - When a harmless game inside a Retreat Center Building turns into a deadly pattern of real-life tragedies, Sierra Raquelle Montana begins to realize that the envelopes they received were never a prank-they were warnings. As classmates start dying in the exact Alphabetical order, fear spreads, friendships crack, and trust becomes the most dangerous risk of all. With secrets hiding behind familiar faces and a shadowy "sequence" deciding who falls next, Sierra and her friends must uncover the truth before their initial is next-because in this game, no one loses by accident, and survival might mean questioning everyone she once called a friend.

Professional stage magician and amateur detective Gerald E. Mendel sets out with his assistant to solve the mystery of why he's being charged money for using electricity. The answer might shock you!

When Hall Abrams disappears, the town of Blackwater Ridge decides he's dead-because that's easier than asking who made him vanish. Jude Castañeda was the last person to see Hall alive. Now his name is everywhere: whispered in hallways, shredded across group chats, carved into the school's trophies like a warning. Videos corrupt. Witnesses "forget." Even the yearbook starts erasing faces-starting with Lena Voss, the girl the system insists doesn't exist. Then Jude wakes up from a hospital bed with a bandage on his throat... and a message on his phone telling him to "stay on your side." In a town that edits reality like it's content, the only way to save Hall is to follow the trail of broken mirrors and missing records-before Jude gets rewritten into the villain, and the truth disappears for good. Because in Blackwater Ridge, the most dangerous thing you can do... is remember.

"No one transfers to Nightson by choice..." ​Nightson Academy is famous for it's discipline, it's prestige, and it's silence. One year ago, that silence swallowed her brother whole on a rain-drenched night. The school labeled a "tragic accident." Now, she's walking the same halls and breathing the same air as his killer. She didn't come for a diploma; she came to tear the mask off the world's most elite institution. At Nightson, the truth is the only rule worth breaking. _______________________________________ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ! : This book may contains violence, bullying, substance use, səxual violence, crime, suicide, self-harm and other mature themes that may not suitable for other readers. enjoy reading! 💖🥰

A snowstorm traps an elite family inside their historic mansion during Christmas. The beloved head of the family, Victor Hale, is found dead in his study. With no signs of forced entry and far too many secrets, everyone under the Hale roof becomes a suspect. Assigned to the case are rival detectives Mary Voss and Leo Hartman, former academic competitors who can barely stand each other. Forced to work together, they navigate secret passages, vanishing footprints in the snow, suspicious alibis, and a household full of people who all had something to lose. What begins as a classic locked-room mystery slowly unravels into a tragic web of fear, love, and fatal misunderstanding. Because sometimes, no one means to kill anyone... but the truth is still deadly.

Halloween is truly a festive time of year. Spooky stories, haunted houses and vampires that you can't help but thirst over because you're weird like that. That's why Hale Woodsen's inviting you to the Traitre Museum. You know, that weirdly atmospheric place near 86th, the one with the dome ceiling? Yeah. There'll be music. Shadows. Smoke machines. Candlelight that definitely isn't safe. Maybe even a Ouija board or two. Costumes are absolutely mandatory - don't come dressed like a civilian unless you want to be sacrificed mid-party for the aesthetic. For everyone has suffered a tragedy recently, the disappearance of Luca Almirez. For those who don't know (you're living under a rock), the basketballer disappeared a month or two ago, after the biggest game of his life. Nothing's been found about him, and to be honest? We're not sure if there ever will be. He was a best friend, a gifted sportsman, and overall a beloved member of society. Perhaps this is Hale's way of battling the grief. Since, you know, he was Luca's best friend. He's trying just as hard as everyone else to get to the bottom of this. His list of suspects is never ending, from Cady Lovaine to Ruel Cruz, to even Reverie Vale and Leslie Wilde. But they have hunches too, and so the story continues, dangerous and twisted. But that's not everything. If you want to get all the details, let's leave the Halloween party. Let's go to the 16th of August, where everything began.