Detective Stories

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** When the biker gang calls in a Jake Bryant's debt, he has no choice but to hunt down an old friend by any means necessary and retrieve their stolen drugs, even if it cost him the woman he loves. ***** Time has run out for Jake Bryant. The Devil's Hand motorcycle gang has cashed in the debt he owes them. Jake must hunt down his old friend, Rick, to retrieve the million dollars worth of heroin he stole from the gang. Soon, Jake finds himself double-crossing both Rick and the Devil's Hand, but his true loyalties will be tested when his girlfriend becomes a bargaining chip. After failing the other women in his life, will Jake finally be able to save someone he loves? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

In the aftermath of a devastating scandal, Olivia Benson finds herself navigating the chaos of motherhood, the return of her long-lost partner Elliot Stabler, and the complicated journey of blending their fractured families. With her daughter Lexi discovering the truth about her father, her son Noah struggling with his own identity, and Chloe Campbell-a traumatized girl who has become like a daughter to her--fighting to heal, Olivia must learn that family isn't about blood. It's about showing up, staying, and loving each other through the mess. This is a story about second chances, found family, and the beautiful chaos of building a home from broken pieces.

In 2045, Psychwatch treats the mentally ill or cages them. Margo wants to bring empathy to every patient but a killer pushes her, and the system, to the limits ***** In a dark future, more than a third of the United States population suffers from mental illness and violent crime is on the rise. In response, Psychwatch is formed - an organization intended to combine mental healthcare and law enforcement - creating monitored areas and neglected ones known as the Psycho Slums. Margo Sandoval is the latest recruit to Psychwatch, bringing a new level of empathy to the controversial agency known for its unforgiving methods. Margo spends her days as an Empath treating everyone possible, until the arrival of a new serial killer upends her life and forces her to confront the evils of the human mind and the system that claims to be the solution.

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** After a great loss, Jake Bryant finds himself in Las Vegas. To fill the void in his heart, he searches for a woman's missing daughter and finds more than he bargained for. ***** Two years after his daughter was kidnapped, Jake Bryant meets a woman in desperate need of help. Seeing the opportunity to redeem himself, Jake probes Las Vegas's seemly underbelly to find the pimp responsible for abducting her daughter. But navigating Sin City's sex trade business proves tougher than Jake thought, and he finds himself digging his own grave at gunpoint. Can Jake find a way to escape? Or will his mistakes lead to more death? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** Jake Bryant must stop the criminal mastermind who orchestrated the murder of his best friend from killing his new family. ***** More dark secrets from Jake Bryant's past come to light. Dolan, the criminal mastermind who ordered the hit on Jake's best friend, Tom, is searching for evidence Tom collected against him for another murder - evidence Tom hid with his widow before his death. Desperate to bring Dolan to justice, Jake finds himself in a race against time to save the lives of those he loves. But with allies double-crossing him left and right, Jake must discover who he can trust before Tom's family is destroyed along with the evidence. Can Jake win the race or will he die just like his friend? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** Jake Bryant, a disgraced Chicago detective, inserts himself into the police investigation of his murdered best friend to protect the woman he loves - his friend's widow. ***** Jake Bryant, a former Chicago PD detective, rushes home after his best friend is killed. Determined to find the murderer, he starts his own investigation into Tom's death. However, the case is complicated by the involvement of a motorcycle gang, drugs, and Jake's feelings for Tom's widow. But Jake has bigger problems when the police set the killer free- who then decides to silence Tom's family as well. Now Jake is faced with the ultimate dilema. Does he trust a broken system to protect Tom's family? Or does he seek his own brand of justice? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** When Jake Bryant's daughter is kidnapped for ransom, he's forced to gamble with her life in order to discover which of his enemies has taken her hostage and to what end. ***** Jake Bryant's daughter, Sam, is in trouble. Her all-star quarterback boyfriend gave her pills to help her study for a test, but the pair are caught on school grounds with the unprescribed drugs. Since Sam's grandfather is a district court judge, she gets off with a slap on the wrist. Austin isn't as lucky. But with Austin's precious future at stake, his brother attempts a Hail-Mary pass by kidnapping Sam for his release. Can Jake rescue her before time runs out, or will they both pay for her mistake with their lives? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Jake Peralta has known he was bisexual since he was eight years old when he first saw Die Hard and had a crush on both Bonnie Bedelia and Bruce Willis. It was when Rosa came out and he gave realized the weight of keeping it a secret was crushing him. This is the story of Jake Peralta coming out as bisexual.

After Denton foils a terrorist attack at an Intergalactic sporting event, he finds himself racing to save his homeworld from a plot of betrayal and revenge. ***** When Denton Staxx, a special agent with the Orbital Security Services, discovers the Intergalactic Olympic Games have been targeted by a terrorist attack, he rushes to Earth to try and stop the event before it's too late. But what he discovers on earth is far worse than he imagined, and Denton is quickly pulled into a galaxy-wide conspiracy that takes him from one solar system to another in the search for a mastermind that will stop at nothing to get his revenge on the richest man in the universe -- regardless of the innocent people who die along the way. [[Wattys' Shortlisted]] [[1st place, Month Elimination Awards, Sci-Fi Category]] [[Best Plot Development, Iced Tea Summer Bash Awards]] [[Best Adventure Scifi Story, The Ooorah's SciFi Awards]] [[1st place, Rebel Awards, Sci-fi Category]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Hunter, a street kid turned FBI agent, is ordered to befriend Calvin Black. But as they grow closer, she realizes Calvin cares more about her than the FBI. Hunter Ashley was taken off the streets as a teen and brought into a highly secret FBI program that's turned her into a full-fledged agent. She is assigned, alongside the brooding agent Micah, to befriend Calvin Black, the son of the notorious Christopher Black. Hunter does her best to hide her survival training inside a typical high school, only she's developing feelings for Calvin, and it looks like Micah is starting to crush on her. In a world where a single mistake can prove fatal, Hunter has to figure out who she can trust, or she'll end up back on the streets. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

In 1882, Doctor Jane Barber has no shortage of problems. From being scrutinised at work for her gender, judged for her youth, and undermined by society as a whole, shes had quite enough. The Boer War was a traumatic experience on its own, but on top of that, Jane now has to find accommodation in London on her own- as the years she should've spent meeting a man and settling down, she spent in a trench tending to wounds. Detective Inspector Arthur Murphy is in need of a roommate. His last was too whiny, the one before that too loud. Another whistled too much, and a brief encounter with one man's dog was enough for Arthur to evict him immediately. When his sister Ada finally puts her foot down, and finds him a roommate herself. Which is how Arthur comes home one day to find his new roommate: a woman. If the Boer War was explosive, Jane and Arthur sharing a shabby flat in London is practically a world war. Spilled tea, scattered case files, and one meddling doctor who won't stop tidying his desk. Arthur nearly kills Jane. Jane nearly kills Arthur. And no, for the last time, as they have to tell many people, they are not married. | Work In Progress Story | Will become a series once this book is complete | Please vote and comment |

විශේෂයෙන් කියන්න දෙයක් නෑ. කතාව ගැන දැනගන්න නම් කියවන්නම වෙනවා ලමයි💗✨️ ___________________________________________

When Harper Watson, a boy with a girl's name, unwittingly ends up at an all-girls cosplay camp, he becomes sidekick to Whim Manor, girl detective extraordinaire. Together, using the power of logic, makeovers, and ignoring adult authority figures, they'll battle evil witches, eviler corporations, and an army of... *spoilers!*

Genre: Anthropomorphic, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Racing, School, Seinen, Slice of Life, Sports, Thriller Synopsis: They are creatures that resemble humans but have the ears and tails of a horse. In this world, they are called Umamusume. Their existence's purpose is solely to carry on the name of the horses, as they continue to run forward for the ones who once owned their names. However... It seems that not all Umamusume want to continue running and walking their own path like normal human beings. Because this particular Umamusume wants to become a Detective. Yet destiny seems to always pull her back to the path where she is supposed to be. So, will she resist destiny, or accept it? Disclaimer: I do not own the game/story of the Umamusume: Pretty Derby. I only own the original characters I will be inserting in this fanfiction. All credits to the original owner of the game/story, Cygames. Also, the events that will occur in this fanfiction will be nothing more than pure fantasy and will have no connection to any real-life events. I will only follow the events that occurred in the game, anime, and manga.

DISCLAIMER: CHASE'S FAMILY, THE BAD GUYS AND THE TWO POLICE PEOPLE ARE MY CHARACTERS. Chase is still looking for his father, digging up any information about him. Suddenly, a police car comes up at the Lookout. An adult German Shepherd named Captain Tristan comes out and says to the PAW Patrol that he's looking for his son. Chase said he was looking for his father. In no time at all, it turns out Tristan is Chase's father! Tristan stayed for a while until his police station back in Adventure City. They said there was a kidnapping spree happening throughout the county but they don't have a lead. Tristan asks Chase to come and Chase says yes. Marshall, as his brother-like-friend, decides to come along. Once they left, they didn't realize they out their friends in danger and at the mercy of the culprits behind the kidnappers. Why? Because Adventure Bay is the next target!

UNRESOLVED | RIKI Recently, several young women have disappeared without a trace. No witnesses. No clues. No answers. At first, the cases seem unrelated. Different girls, different circumstances, nothing that could possibly connect them. Until Detective Kisaragi Rei starts seeing a pattern. Assigned to the case alongside Detective Riki, Rei finds herself working with the one person who knows her better than anyone-and perhaps the one person she never expected to face again. Their relationship is complicated. Their past is unfinished. And working together means confronting everything they've tried to leave behind. But the investigation becomes far more personal when Rei discovers something that changes everything. Now, finding the truth isn't just a part of their job. It's personal. And as Rei and Riki get closer to uncovering what happened to the missing girls, they begin to realize that some secrets were never meant to be found. Because the truth may be closer than they think. UNRESOLVED.

Every second has a purpose. Every choice has been calculated. Detective Ethan Vance has spent years studying criminals, but nothing prepares him for the man calling himself the Watchmaker-a brilliant criminal profiler who has turned his knowledge of the human mind into the most terrifying game Ethan has ever encountered. Deep beneath the city lies a clockwork mechanism unlike anything the police have ever discovered. Its gears turn according to a pattern written in human behavior, secrets, fear, and sacrifice. As Ethan follows the Watchmaker's trail, he begins to realize something horrifying: the clues aren't leading him toward the killer. They're leading him exactly where the killer wants him to go. With every investigation, Ethan loses another piece of certainty. His allies may be pawns. His memories may be manipulated. Even his decisions may have been predicted long before he made them. To stop the Watchmaker, Ethan must enter a game where the greatest weapon isn't a gun, a knife, or a bomb. It's the human mind. And somewhere inside the machine, the clock is already ticking.

For two years, a shadow has haunted the city - striking without warning, vanishing without a trace, untouchable and impossible to stop. He leaves no fingerprints, no footprints, not even a strand of hair. He moves like smoke, walks through barriers, and believes with absolute certainty that nothing can hurt him. The police call him The Phantom. They have chased him to the edge of despair... and found nothing. Then Elara Lin steps through the door. She is not a detective. She is a woman who sees what no one else can - not the evidence scattered at crime scenes, but the mind hidden behind it. She reads patterns invisible to forensics, hears the silent language of ritual and symmetry, and understands that the monster they hunt is not born - he was made. Broken by tragedy, rebuilt by cruelty, taught to feel nothing so he would never be hurt again. Standing beside her is Captain Kael Rainer - a man who has fought for every answer and found only silence. Together, they form an unlikely alliance: her vision, his courage, and a truth so dangerous it could destroy them both. Because The Phantom is not the only one hiding in the shadows. There is a mastermind behind him - a man who turns grief into armor and vulnerability into weakness. And when he realizes someone is unraveling his work... he will come for the one person who can see through the darkness. A gripping psychological thriller about the walls we build to survive, the cost of seeing too deeply, and the quiet courage to believe that even the most broken mind can still find its way back to the light.

When the city rains, it remembers. Detective **Rin Akitsuki** has built his life on logic, control, and distance. In a city where corruption seeps through every streetlight, he's one of the few who still believes in justice - until a string of killings shatters that belief. Each victim is found with a single black feather and no trace of the killer. To solve the case, Rin turns to **Kairo**, a man who shouldn't exist - a ghost in the system with a smile that hides too much. He knows things no ordinary informant could, and his interest in Rin feels dangerously personal. As they chase a murderer through the city's underbelly, secrets begin to surface - not just about the crimes, but about *Kairo* himself. Every clue brings Rin closer to the truth... and closer to the man who might destroy him. Amid the rain-soaked alleys and neon lights, desire and danger intertwine. Trust becomes a risk, love becomes a weapon - and sometimes, the darkest hearts are the ones that burn the brightest. Author: Nightstater (myself) This is a fictional story. Any resemblance to the actual world is pure coincidence.

මෙන්න දැන් ලැබුණු විශේෂ පුවතක්! මේ වනවිට අපට ලැබෙන නවතම තොරතුරු අනුව, අද උදෑසන කොළඹ නගරයට ආසන්න ප්‍රදේශයකදී තවත් සැක සහිත මරණයක් වාර්තා වී තිබෙනවා. පොලිස් පරීක්ෂණ කණ්ඩායම් මේ වනවිට සිද්ධිය සිදුවූ ස්ථානය පරීක්ෂා කරමින් සිටින අතර, මෙම මරණය පසුගිය මාස කිහිපය තුළ වාර්තා වූ අභිරහස් ඝාතන මාලාවට සම්බන්ධ විය හැකි බවටද සැක පළ කර තිබෙනවා. විමර්ශන අංශවලට අනුව, මෙම සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශේෂ අවධානයක් යොමුව ඇත්තේ ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ පුද්ගලයා අසලින් සොයාගත් කලු පැහැති රෝස මලක් හේතුවෙනි. මෙය මීට පෙර වාර්තා වූ ඝාතන කිහිපයකද දක්නට ලැබුණු සංකේතයක් බව සඳහන් වන අතර, ඒ අනුව මෙම අපරාධ සියල්ල එකම පුද්ගලයෙකු හෝ සංවිධානාත්මක කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් සිදුකරන ලද ඒවා විය හැකි බවට පොලිසිය සැක පළ කරයි.