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Water's Edge

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Time 3h 47m

Reads 214
Votes 8
Parts 56
Time 3h 47m

Mature

brexlit crime cult detective drowning dystopian dâm england extinction hardboiled humber investigator magick murder mystery noir private rebellion saxon tory uk united

H J Fields is a Bow Street Runner, a private investigator loathed by public and policeman alike. Straddling the thin blue line, he believes that even if the barrel turns all the apples bad, there must be law somewhere.
  
  His first case after getting a new office in Askrinstough, a city built on flooded Grimsby, Immingham. He needs money, and fast, and when Mrs. Wharton, wife of Barnaby, the MP for Beverly & Holderness, turns up with stories of her son going missing around the Humber Dam construction site, this seems like easy money for our P.I.
  
  But when he arrives in Thorngumbald, he finds more than just a kid lost to the estuary. Saxon cultists, environmental terrorists, and Tory MPs: and there are sure as hell more than one body in those waters. This case is going to take longer than he'd like. At least the pay is worth it.
  
  Water's Edge is the first H J Fields mystery, a Brexlit crime story, set in a world after the United Kingdom dissolves into four independent nations. Unionists bomb the border to Scotland. The Conservatives have been in power for 1X years. And Runners like Fields may have quit the force, for all it's corruption, but crimes still need solving, right?All Rights Reserved

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Untangled by Stephanie_Aston

I slammed the table loudly and groaned out of pain. Not only the pain from the headache I was having right now. But also from the memories flooding my mind as well. I was slowly remembering everything. "I hate you!"I shouted seething from anger as I gritted my teeth to stop myself from attacking him. He was really tempting me and I knew it wouldn't be long before I would attempt to pull his face apart and rip out his throat. "Not more than I hate you Alexander Norman. Trust me." He said emphasising on the name that seemed so foreign to me yet that was my real name. He had a mischievous glint in his eyes as he seemed to enjoy the internal battle I was having in my head. " So back to my story-" He drawled in an attempt to irritate me before he continued. " Your mother married me because I had her secret and I threatened to ruin her with it if she did not give in to my wishes." "And what exactly was her secret?" I asked. "She killed your father." He responded and glanced at me probably waiting for my reaction at what he just said. ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Scandals brew in the air once more. Lies in the web of deception and atrocities committed, he seeks to unravel them. Would the past rear its ugly head and untangle all the mysteries? Started[November 2022] Finished [August 2023]

Perfect Without Scars .{major Construction} by Estyshawl

Back in this day and age, royalty no longer wedded royalty, simply because everyone now wanted to marry for love. Which is why a union like ours would have effortlessly drawn the crowd; peharps more enemies than friends. The marriage of a blooded royalty to a birthed royalty. Blue blood to blue blood. A union like ours, was bound to change lives to come, generations, eras even, and unwittingly... The life of my unborn child. BUT EVERYONE'S FORGOTTEN ONE RULE. "For a union to be made, royalty or no royalty, the bride and groom at least have to be present. Vows can't be made, if one of the pair gets missing. Or absent. So what happens when the bride gets kidnapped and killed? No. Don't despair. That's not the end of everything; its just the beginning, for even ghosts and corpses still have to hold on to their important earthly commitments they had, before they died. And as I take in my last couple of breaths, nothing else rips my heart apart more than the fact that my own wedding, that is supposed to have me as its bride, goes on without me. An imposter in my spot? Convenient. I hope she's also prepared to fuck my husband on our wedding night too? Don't they know that Chris knows every inch of the body of the woman he fell in love with? He'd know.. He has to... They'll all have to know... I can't exit this way. ♣° ♣° ♣° ♣° ♣° ♣° ♣° ♣° ___________________ ∞~•♦|| " I no longer know if I'm dead or alive. A corpse or a ghost. I exist in two realms at the same time, I live in two worlds and two different time frames all at once, and I, Ajora, have fallen in love with two different men who know two very different and conflicting sides of me. This my story." ||♦•~∞ ___________________ ¶> ROMANCE ¶> FANTASY ¶> THRILLER EstherDibie (Estyshawl♥)...

MARACLEA••• (Nigel Colbie x reader) by whore4morpheus

raised in a church her entire life, y/n yearned for adventure outside of stupid acts for a simple rush of adrenaline. she wanted to run from cops, steal, drink, party, and have sex. she wanted a life worth living, and that was granted once Nigel came and ruined her and her brother's lives. it was worth it. she wanted to be his, and he wanted her to be his Maraclea. (IK HE IS A PSYCHO MURDERER, BUT OML I LOVE TOM STURRIDGE AND NIGEL IS SO FINE I COULD RANT FOR DAYS!) -ALSO THERE IS LITERALLY 1 SINGULAR STORY ON THIS SEXY MURDER FREAK SMUT WARNING 18+ (IK Y'ALL 14 YR OLDS OUT THERE IDC IF U READ😭) ANGST VIOLENCE GORE ETC

The Terror Of Tarantula ✔ by Arpan_writes

"The most egregious crimes are often those that are committed in full view of the public but are undetected" - Sir James Fisher "Tarantula", is a calm spider species. But who knew that behind this spider was a dangerous freak who would kill innocent children one after another? Nine children were reported missing from Manchester on one single day. After five days of tireless search, the British police finally discovered all nine bodies in a stable near Warrington. All of the dead bodies had the bite mark of a tarantula on their right neck, which was a common feature. In the absence of any clues as to how to find the culprit, police chief Harrison approached legendary detective Sir James Fisher who has solved many difficult and strange cases throughout his career. The question is: can Fisher, accompanied by his best friend and assistant Daniel, solve the case? Who is the culprit? How is a tarantula involved? Why are the children being punished in this manner? You can find the answers to all these questions by reading the full story... Started this story: 11th June, 2019. Finished: 25th September, 2021 Achievements: 1) Wattpad Activists Award Winner (Mystery/Thriller) 2) Featured by StoriesUndiscovered for the month of July, 2022 Highest Rankings: #1 in "tarantula" #6 in "twisty" #16 in "freak" #62 in "Britain" #73 in "serialkiller" #105 in "missing" #118 in "kidnap" Note:- This is a Wattpad exclusive story. I have not published it or given consent to publish it on any other platform. If you find this story on any other platforms except Wattpad, immediately report it, and please consider reading this novel from Wattpad only. Thank you.

Chicago Typewriter by guywortheyauthor

As Detective Drew Lucy typed up the report on the Waterton case the pretty ankle slipped into his line of sight. It was shaped like trouble. The chief's sixteen-year-old daughter Millie was worried about her brother, Ike, who had started to disappear some nights. The chief could fire Drew for messing with family business, but Drew reluctantly agrees to tail Ike. The trail leads to a speakeasy and the mushrooming business of organized crime during Prohibition in Chicago. Clues from the Ebony Gardens murder point to the same gang, but the gangsters can smell Drew coming, and bullets are cheap. By the time Drew enters the seductive orbit of a mink-eyed vixen addicted to risk, he's in over his head. If he isn't shot full of daylight by gangster tommy guns, he'll drown in Bianca's perfumed embrace. It's enough to make a gumshoe readjust his fedora. ----- This noir flavored detective yarn is set 100 years back in time. It's a bit grittier than my usual breezy output. This story is basically clean and I did not flag it as mature. However, darker human failings (alcohol use, sexual desire, and violence) drive the plot. I don't dwell on those aspects, but it's definitely a story for grownups. The intended audience is new adult or adult. Winner! 2022 Amby Awards, Mystery and Thriller category. Winner! 3rd place in the Ballsy Tea Awards 2022, Action and Adventure category.

Section F: Fairy Tales & Physicists by Reffster

With a princess killer to catch, a host of fairy-tale characters to wrangle and a crumbling career to resurrect, fallen hotshot Agent Fields has his hands full. And that's before the case leads to a story-obsessed, dimension-hopping scientist, hellbent on world domination. **** Dumped, demoted and assigned to the mysterious Section F, Fields' number one priority is reversing his sudden career-slide. Even more so after meeting his new partner, the borderline dangerous Agent Peregrine. A specialist in the Agency's most unconventional cases, she suspects the victims in a recent spate of murders are fairy-tale princesses from other worlds. And her prime suspect is story-lover and quantum-science genius Dr Frank Featherstone. Suspecting his partner is crazy, Fields' scepticism begins to wilt when the case leads to a comatose prince, a wisecracking witch and a very much alive princess, with a mean kick to the codpiece up her sleeve. What begins as a murder investigation spirals into a jaw-dropping, dimension-spanning race against time, as the two agents and their new offsiders battle monsters, dodge dragons and receive a first-hand hardcore lesson in fairy-tale lore, while trying to bag the bad guy - and just maybe save the world. *Formerly a Paid Story/Wattpad Original (so you know it must be good, huh?) but now free!*

My Little Murder by ak_lloyd

Liv Winters had an unstable past; since she was fifteen, her home had been a hospital, where she slowly recovered from the things that haunted her nightmares and dreams. But that all changed the moment she was let out. Moving into a new house with her alcoholic mother and her supportive brother, Liv now has to face challenges like none she ever had to deal with in hospital: human interaction. Now, Ryelan Montgomery, or "Rye" was considered her new school's God student; everything he was expected to be and more. Smart, sexy, bad, fun, sexy - he was all of these things. Anyone he wanted, anyone at all, he already had. One glance, one touch, one lingering kiss; that's all it took. His mother and father travelled a lot, leaving him a lonely soul in his own house. But someone like him couldn't settle down; it just wasn't in his nature. Liv, though, catches his eye. Is it her long, wavy hair? Or her soft, pink lips? Or maybe it's those haunting eyes of hers, the kind that leave eternal scars? Whatever it its, he's hell-bent on finding out who she is and why she pushes everyone away from her. Out of care or boredom, not even he knew; all he was sure of was that he could get to anyone he wanted, anyone at all. Especially the least expected.

Exit to the Right ✔️ by A_Bone

(complete) Sex, intrigues, lies - the Game is like normal politics, just that now people lose their brain over it. Macbeth meets House of Cards and Game of Thrones in a fantastic ride to the Brexit referendum battled out in the reality TV show environment of The Game. After taking home a surprise victory in the national audience-vote of the popular international TV show The Game, David, the leader of one of the two participating UK teams, The Tortoises, and one of his council members, Ed, are brutally murdered in bed. The police arrests Ed's brother William, in what seems to be a fight over positions gone fatally wrong. The murder opens the way for Boris to the top, an ambitious man pushed by his clever wife, Theresa. What few know, the police have neither the right murderer or motive. The magic of the murders hatches a far greater risk for humans and their brains. But two out of the three initially setting out to stop what is happening, Justin and Matis, haven't yet coped with their own deaths nor with the prospect of an eternity together, while their boss, Hel, puts her father's safety before the task. Whether or not they get their act together though, it soon becomes clear that the job demands a bigger crew as their true opponent is very familiar to them and has never been beaten yet. Exit to the Right kicks off a series. In its course, it becomes clear that the 'zombie virus' rather than destroying brains, manipulates the humans' emotion-based value system to send humankind back in time without ever leaving the path to the future. The wheel of time with the rise and fall of human consciousness needs to be broken for the world to have a chance to fulfill its promise.

Finding Jack: 1888 in Whitechapel by NapsStrikesAgain

In a reality not too unlike our own, the hunt for Jack the Ripper was in full swing. However, what if in this reality he happened to be caught? "One small change can do a lot", a wise man once said, and nothing is more true. In this reality, things were different in the Metropolitan Police which would see a big impact in their investigation: women could, too, be employed as police officers. Will this make an impact? Perhaps you should take a peek... ~~~ This Short Story is an adaptation of 'Catching Jack the Ripper' made by StoneRaptor7598 who kindly let me put a swing on things in my own version. Please make sure to go read the original version!! Highest Rankings: 26 - #Murders 347 - #Police 641 - #London 216 - #Brandon 140 - #Investigation

Just Call Me Jack by kameharu_x

Clarence Marlow has never dealt with such a curious case before. As second-in-command at Scotland Yard, it's up to him to solve the case of the mysterious Jack the Ripper, as the papers so eloquently named the serial killer terrorizing the citizens of London. With the help of Bernard Hastings, the kindhearted chief of police, Mary Jane Kelly, a quick-witted resident of Whitechapel, Newt Reuben, the resourceful orphan, and Florica Herne, a beautiful performing gypsy, the case may be cracked. But will Jack the Ripper be undone in time? You, the reader, must collect clues for yourself in this thrilling new tale spun by X herself. Can you solve the case before time runs out? A warning from X: This story is not marked Mature, but you must be aware that there are a few *questionable* scenes that you cannot skip if you want to understand the story. If you don't want to read these particular parts of the story, it is not for you and X will not be offended if you scroll past this and never read it. And an additional side note: X has tried to stay true to the facts, researching killing methods, places, and victims of Jack the Ripper, but most of these happenings are purely fictional. She reserves the right to blend truth with-- well, lies. CREDIT TO TASTYWORDS16 FOR THE INCREDIBLE SHERLOCK SOUNDTRACKS!

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The Terror Of Tarantula ✔ cover

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Section F: Fairy Tales & Physicists cover

My Little Murder cover

Exit to the Right ✔️ cover

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Untangled

I slammed the table loudly and groaned out of pain. Not only the pain from the headache I was having right now. But also from the memories flooding my mind as well. I was slowly remembering everything. "I hate you!"I shouted seething from anger as I gritted my teeth to stop myself from attacking him. He was really tempting me and I knew it wouldn't be long before I would attempt to pull his face apart and rip out his throat. "Not more than I hate you Alexander Norman. Trust me." He said emphasising on the name that seemed so foreign to me yet that was my real name. He had a mischievous glint in his eyes as he seemed to enjoy the internal battle I was having in my head. " So back to my story-" He drawled in an attempt to irritate me before he continued. " Your mother married me because I had her secret and I threatened to ruin her with it if she did not give in to my wishes." "And what exactly was her secret?" I asked. "She killed your father." He responded and glanced at me probably waiting for my reaction at what he just said. ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Scandals brew in the air once more. Lies in the web of deception and atrocities committed, he seeks to unravel them. Would the past rear its ugly head and untangle all the mysteries? Started[November 2022] Finished [August 2023]