Birdhood, a modern murder mystery (Camp NaNoWriMo July 2014)
BrokenCoda
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  • Reads 392
  • Votes 29
  • Parts 12
  • Time 1h 39m
BrokenCoda
Ongoing, First published Jul 05, 2014
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A manor, set amongst the rolling hills, between sprawling cities of 21st century technology. Vogel McClennan, seventeen, advocate of chewing gum, devotee of The Details and with no defined direction in life, finds herself thrown into the path of Detective Samuel Jacobs, tirelessly controlled and unpunctual, as an apprentice. A business call to the manor results in a death by morning, and certainly - in the style of such things - it is murder.
Apprentice McClennan is in no way prepared for the hostilities of investigation, interrogation and - above all - mortality. But she has to be. The halls of Carroll House grow cold on the trail of a murderer, and amongst the eclectic residents, history and peril, a dance with a criminal taunts her at every turn.
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The Mysteries of Bran House || Fleckney Gothic Mystery

11 parts Ongoing

{ON HIATUS} Peggy Brown, a former Carmelite nun, is faced with a series of inexplicable events taking place in Bran House, a dilapidated manor that she agreed to help to restore to its former glory. The man who has recently come into the possession of the House is nothing but abrupt, sardonic, and impetuous; all according to the requirements of Gothic fiction. There are also presumable apparitions; two stalkers lurking in the shadows; stormy weather - and now Peggy found a dead body on the grand staircase! Is this a Brontë or Radcliffe novel - or is there a perfectly mundane explanation to all this hogwash?

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