Истории Whodunnit

What happened to The Phillips Girl? People have been asking questions about a little girl for twenty-five years...an innocent child in a yellow coat who vanished without a trace...who had no idea what was going to happen to her. Lots of secrets lie beneath the surface of the old money, culture, and elegance of Ashbourne, the capital of Leoria. There are years of mysteries, resentments, and grief hidden in its heart. Did the Phillips family really get destroyed by the Salvatores and the Ryders? Maybe...Maybe not. The history might be a lot more complicated. And when a group of young people starts searching for answers...they find each other instead and begin to fall for people they were never supposed to love. Because the heart doesn't really follow logic or convenience, right? When their families have spent decades hating each other, can love and friendship change a path built on hatred? Author's Note: This story is set in the fictional country of Leoria. While some aspects of its culture and geography may resemble real-world places, Leoria is entirely fictional. Warning: Contains occasional swearing and suggestive themes. Recommended for ages 13+. Image Credits: All images belong to their respective owners and creators. Used solely for aesthetic visualisation of characters, settings, and story themes. Happy reading. 💛💚 Multiple-time #1 in Original Fiction 🏆 Multiple-time #1 in Whodunit 🏆

A detective. An ancient jar. A formula written in blood. When Hong Kong detective Shen Zhao lands in Luxor, the heat hits him before the case does. A series of deaths has been linked to an 18th Dynasty ceramic jar unearthed near the Valley of the Kings - the kind of jar that should have stayed sealed. Dr. Rashid, the archaeologist who opened it, says the spores inside killed the first victim. But when a second body appears, and then a third, Shen Zhao begins to suspect that the jar is not just an artifact. It is a vessel - for a method passed down through one family's bloodline, a formula from the royal physician of the 18th Dynasty, hidden in the double wall of the jar for three thousand years. With only his AI assistant A-Qi and a papyrus fragment that might predate the pyramids, Shen Zhao follows a trail of ancient prescriptions, modern murders, and a father's unfinished case code - GX-025 - that leads from the banks of the Nile to somewhere much colder. The dead have a book. It has a chapter called 125 - the weighing of the heart against the feather of truth. Someone in Luxor is using it as a checklist. This is Volume 2 of the Shen Zhao Mystery series. Volume 1, The Paper Dead, is available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Updates: Mon / Wed / Fri

Zaina Khan is the only person in her house who thinks her father was murdered. Her Ammi says let it rest. The police called it an accident. Allah knows she has tried. Then two families - the Khans and the Siddiquis - start pulling at a thread that runs twenty years deep: a fire everyone stopped talking about, a friend who became an enemy, and a shadow who knows them all by name. A halal mystery-thriller about faith, family, and the things parents bury to protect their children - biryani at midnight, aunties who are better at surveillance than the police, and a question nobody in two houses will say out loud. Every door they open leads deeper into the circle. Some secrets don't stay buried. Some of them come knocking. 🌒 New chapters twice a week.

Four months ago my best friend went off Widow's Step and the whole town agreed to call it a choice. I never did. Then, on the night Juno should have turned eighteen, my phone lit up with a number that stopped existing in March. don't let them tell you it was the water. I thought it was a prank. Then I found out Cass Rhee was getting them too - the boy everyone says killed her. His messages are the other half of mine. Neither of us can read them alone. So we started following them. Through her locker. Through the flooded cannery. Through a report somebody paid a lot of money to lose. And somewhere between the ninth text and the tenth, they changed. They stopped telling me what Juno knew. They started telling me what I was doing. Right then. In that room. Dead girls don't text back. Which means somebody very much alive has her phone - and now they have my number too. ⚠ Mature: grief, death, violence. No explicit content. 🏷 #mystery #thriller #enemiestolovers #slowburn #smalltown

#LTPS Epistolary Story Told through diary entries, letters, text messages, emails, social media posts, and police reports, this epistolary novel combines romance and mystery as two strangers uncover a deadly secret hidden behind a series of messages. Si Seraphina Elise Laurent ay isang estudyanteng may matayog na pangarap sa buhay. Nagsusumikap siya upang makapasok sa isang prestihiyosong paaralan. Nang sa wakas ay natupad ang kaniyang pangarap, hindi saya o lungkot ang kaniyang naramdaman-kundi takot. May isang hindi kilalang numero na palaging nagte-text sa kaniya. Walang palya. At sa tuwing may natatanggap siyang mensahe, may isang taong namamatay. Habang pilit niyang binubuo ang misteryong nakatago sa likod ng mga mensahe, isang tao ang unti-unting nagiging bahagi ng kaniyang buhay-at ng imbestigasyon. Sino ang nasa likod ng mga mensaheng ito? At bakit tila itinuturo ng lahat ng ebidensya ang isang taong hindi niya kayang pagdudahan? Kapag ang pag-ibig ang naging pangunahing suspek, sino ang paniniwalaan mo?

The woman upstairs disappeared three days ago. No goodbye. No explanation. No sign that she ever left. The police aren't worried. The neighbors aren't asking questions. But Lena Hart is. Because every night since the woman vanished, Lena hears footsteps coming from the apartment above hers. Someone is walking. Back and forth. Every night. Except the apartment upstairs is locked. And according to the police, no one has been inside since the woman disappeared. Lena knows what she's hearing. She also knows that someone is lying. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes the woman's disappearance may not be the only mystery in the building. Because sometimes the person you're looking for... is closer than you think.

'Did you ever notice? Your names spell the word DEATH.' Life itself is a big mystery. You never know when it will end. But when you get a sniff of death approaching, will you be able to escape fate, or will you have no choice but to fall into its embrace? Slowly, they start to notice what's amiss after Alicia was almost welcomed by death. Live or die, those are the only outcomes of a game that was triggered to start again. And it's up to them to uncover who's playing the Grim Reaper - and whose life will be taken next. Genre: Psychological, Mystery/Thriller, Drama, Romance Language: Taglish

DEALT Guess who's the killer? Everyone gets a card. Every card has a purpose. Every purpose has a consequence. Veyra never thought a simple invitation would change her life. One ordinary Saturday morning, she receives a message from an unknown number. YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED. Six hours later, she finds herself inside an unfamiliar building with dozens of other people, all trapped around tables with nothing but a deck of cards in front of them. There are no spectators. There are no observers. Only players. At first, Veyra thinks the cards are nothing more than roles in a game. The King. The Queen. The Ace. The Jack. The Joker. But she soon discovers that the cards don't simply tell them who they are. They decide what happens to them. Numbers determine the severity. Suits determine the consequence. And every mistake comes with a price. They are given five rounds to identify the Spy. The Ace must find the truth. The Spy must remain hidden. The Joker must deceive them all. And whoever makes the wrong guess will pay the price. But as the games continue, Veyra begins noticing something far more terrifying than the punishments. Someone knows the game. Someone knows the rules. And someone has been waiting for them to arrive. Because this isn't the first time DEALT has been played. And it won't end until the deck is empty. So tell me... If you were dealt a card, would you play your role or rewrite the rules?

Allow me to introduce myself: the name's Dylan Neville. I'm a decent writer, a good cook, and (if I do say so myself) the sharpest shot in the City. Nice to meet you all. Well, I found out the hard way that there's only so many bridges you can burn before you've got no more places to run. So I had to turn to my brother, currently sitting on his newly minted detective agency and looking for assistants. Ryan spent most of our childhood as an amateur sleuth. But I'd say there are significant differences between being a kid detective and doing the business as an adult. For instance; your name gets stamped above the door for the mighty convenience of anyone who wants you dead. Can't say this is how I imagined spending my twenties. But hey, I've got nowhere else to go. Might as well make the best out of it.

20 books into the Booktown Mystery series and A Critical Conjunction is the one that finally made me see how dysfunctional the Miles family really is. Entitlement, doormat behaviour, and a mystery solved with almost no actual sleuthing. My honest 2-star review is up now.

Explores famous cases including solved, unsolved, and missing cases. All information provided was gathered through extensive research. **Warning** Some cases are pretty lengthy and extensive in details, while others may be short. The length of each case varies and is determined on the amount of coverage and/or information provided about it.

He was the safest place you knew. Jungwon's arms, his hoodie that smelled like vanilla, his bed where you fell asleep after the party. Then people started dying. one in the library. Then in the bathroom with his heart in his hands. Two more in an abandoned building with "Who will be next?" written in their blood on the wall. The police say it's one of seven. Heeseung. Jay. Jake. Jungwon. Sunoo. Ni-ki. Sunghoon. But they can't seem to figure out who... maybe you could? You're falling for Jungwon while trying to figure out if you're sleeping next to a killer. Maybe if you never fell in love, you wouldn't have to worry about being murdered in your sleep? 7 suspects. 1 killer. Who will survive?

Dear Murderer They say blood is thicker than water. But in Oakridge City, secrets run even deeper. When Oakridge City's golden girl is found dead, all fingers point to my brother. To save him, I have to expose the city's darkest secrets-or become the next target Seventeen-year-old Damisa "Damie" Brick is perfectly content blending into the background. In a family of high-achievers-featuring a model mother, a politician grandfather, and a star-athlete brother-Damie feels completely average, mostly sticking to her routine and staying out of the spotlight. But her quiet life is shattered the morning her school's group chat explodes with terrifying news: Tia Merry, the student body chair and her brother Drake's ex-girlfriend, has been found dead near the woods. Even worse? Drake is the prime suspect. As the police close in and paparazzi surround their estate, Damie receives a cryptic text message from an anonymous number: I know who killed her. Meet me tomorrow at 9 PM. Driven by a desperate need to save her brother and finally prove her worth, Damie decides to step out of the shadows and play detective. But the deeper she dives into the mystery, the more dangerous the game becomes. Surrounded by tight-lipped friends, hidden motives, and a masked delivery boy leaving warning notes on her doorstep, Damie realizes someone is watching her every move. In a city built on flawless reputations and dark secrets, trust is a luxury she can't afford-especially when the real killer might be closer than she ever imagined. part of seductive love. please at least read till ch 3 before dropping if you were planning to .that's when things become interesting

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

John Hunter is dead. Seventeen years gone, just like that. Emerald can't understand why. She's a poet with no means of trying to solve an entire murder. But as the clues keep mysteriously showing up in her face- she can no longer ignore the signs. Whoever murdered John knows she's on their trail, and soon she becomes a target.

A controlling, corrupt government, orbs that hold every single memory, and a state-to-state travel/communication ban. This story follows Kira from first perspective as she navigates difficulties through this dangerous, futuristic society. Friend issues, boy issues, and mom issues? There's a lot she doesn't understand. What is her mom hiding from her? What does she do at the memory center? Why would her mom lie to her? For good reason? For her safety? She can't shake the feeling that it's not, She KNOWS it's not. "No, my mom loves me, she would never lie to me. Would she?.." Excerpt: If we're being honest the Armed scare me. Their big guns, their masks, they act nice but I've seen what they do. One time a man was caught trying to cross state lines without the Court approved stamp. They reported it on our local news to scare us into making sure we had the approved stamp. They killed him. They shot him. He didn't have a weapon on him, he just wanted to get over. It was against the law, but he was killed for it. We all watched and did nothing.

SELF PUBLISHED - BUY NOW ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/dqJWidc BENEATH THE SURFACE: The Secret of Detective Jones Genre: Crime Thriller / Psychological Mystery / Conspiracy Thriller Dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, emotionally tense, increasingly personal. Sometimes uncovering the truth means discovering that the system you trusted-and the life you built inside it-was founded on a lie. Why is a serial killer murdering people connected to Stratton Industries, and why does every clue seem designed specifically for Detective Patrice Jones? Can Patrice expose a conspiracy when doing so forces her to confront the possibility that her own career, family history, and identity are connected to the very corruption she has spent her life fighting? Detective Patrice Jones thought she was hunting a serial killer. Then the killer told her to investigate her own mother's death. A series of carefully staged murders leads Patrice toward Stratton Industries, a powerful corporation protected by politicians, judges, police officers-and a secret network known as **the Circle**. Each victim once helped conceal its crimes. Each later tried to make amends. Someone has decided forgiveness came too late. But the deeper Patrice digs, the more personal the case becomes. Her mother's fatal "accident" may have been murder. Her police chief has been lying to her for twenty years. And the journalist Patrice trusts most may know far more about the killings than she has admitted. Soon Patrice discovers the horrifying truth: She was never simply assigned to this investigation. **She was chosen for it.** To expose the conspiracy, Patrice must uncover what was buried beneath her mother's death-before the search for justice turns her into the very thing she is trying to stop. **Some secrets are buried to protect the guilty. Others are buried to protect you from the truth.**

Catarina Gallagher has spent twenty-one years dreaming of a life beyond the small Irish town she calls home. When an unexpected opportunity takes her across the Atlantic, Cat leaves Ireland behind and begins a new life in America. But freedom doesn't last long. When tragedy strikes her family, Detective Noah Thompson is drawn into a case that quickly becomes far more personal than he expected. With a killer still at large and questions surrounding the events that led to the murder, Noah and Cat are forced to confront secrets that someone is desperate to keep buried. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone knows what happened. And they'll do anything to make sure Cat never finds out.

Book 01 of 'the murder' series Everyone arrived at Devgarh Palace to celebrate a wedding. Not everyone left with the truth. When Dr. Vedang Ranavat is found dead just hours before he is meant to say "I do," an elite investigative unit uncovers a web of lies where no one is innocent, every confession is incomplete, and every secret points to the wrong suspect. Seven secrets. Seven vows. One murder. The last revelation won't just expose the killer... It will change everything you thought you knew.

Tick tock goes the clock, Until this Manor is No more Will the mouse Find a way out? Free of guilt; Oh, safe and sound? Time is running out, detective. Angel Mallory has always been unlucky. Seemingly retired from their old job working for the Guilded Council, they not only have to face the trauma of their old working position as a detective agent, but a new, disturbing enemy- unemployment. A sudden invitation to a masquerade event at The Silverguard Manor changes everything. Could luck be on Angel's side for once? FIRST INSTALLMENT IN "VICE & VIRTUE" ************ Irregular Updates Currently. TW: Depictions of violence [strangling, knives] that may upset readers. There are markers on these points and they are fairly skippable. 🥇1st place Mystery/Thriller winner in The Twilight Awards hosted by @lupe6583v