Murdermystery Stories

A powerful man murdered. His daughter vanishes. A female detective hiding behind a man's identity steps into a maze of secrets, stolen art, and deadly lies. Who is Claire Dubreuil really? What connects a forgotten past to a billion-dollar empire? And can Elise Martin solve the mystery... without revealing her own? Nothing is what it seems. Everyone hides something. Even her.

"I should go," Father Jud said breaking the silence. He didn't move. Nell nodded. "You probably should." He smiled, almost rueful. "I don't want to." ~~~ Nell Ward is an Investigative Archival Specialist, good at her big office job in New York City. Until she is sent, unwillingly, to the small parish of Chimney Rock. There she is tasked with investigating possible fraud while digitalising the records of a local church. Only things get complicated when she meets the much younger, and hotter, than expected Assistant Priest. Father Jud. It all gets a whole lot worse when the corrupt Head Priest is murdered and a Southern Detective shows up. ~~~ 3rd in #HotPriest 4th in #MurderMystery 8th in #JoshOConnor

In the heart of blue skies, there lies three clans who had always been at peace; allowing any warrior to go onto another clan's territory. They had been taught with kindness and respect, so the first leaders decided that any cat from the clans could come and go wherever in the clans' territory. Until... A murder. A unknown serial killer had gone loose, killing those who suspect them. A group of apprentices from each clan and two young warriors decide to team up and work together to find this murder-before time runs out.

A killer is stalking the teenagers of Flushing, Queens. As he hunts his first victim, Paula Daking has a vision of the murder. Terrified, she tries to tell herself it was just a nightmare, but it soon becomes clear that it was all-too real. After learning that the victim is her best friend's little sister, Vanessa Bondovski reaches out to her old friends to reform the amateur detective club they created in junior high. As they come together to take on a case with much higher stakes than their previous adventures, the girls realize they may be in over their heads. Soon, Amanda Chan's closest friends are murdered one by one. This development leaves her more determined than ever to solve the case and catch the killer, but what will she do when it becomes clear that the killer is closer than anyone thought?

World: Elderglen Elderglen is not gentle. Magic rots before it heals. Oaths scar the tongue. Steel remembers hands. Black Hallow squats on a knife-edge cliffs where the Midnight Rail cuts the earth open and stitches it shut again. The train is old law given wheels, sentient, punitive, and hungry for balance. Waymarks are not symbols here. They are verdicts

It begins like any other ordinary day at the Midnight Cafe Shop. AC and Gabriel are there for no special reason-just coffee, conversation, and a brief escape from routine. The place feels warm, familiar, safe. That illusion shatters when one customer suddenly dies. The staff panic, but explanations come easily: a medical condition, bad timing, tragic luck. Then it happens again. And again. What once felt like coincidence starts to feel deliberate. The air inside the café grows tense, every glance suspicious, every silence heavy. AC wants to believe they're overthinking it-that bad things just happen sometimes. Gabriel can't ignore the unease gnawing at him. He begins noticing patterns others dismiss: where each victim was seated, what they ordered, the timing of their deaths. The truth reveals itself slowly and chillingly-someone is sending a message. The deaths are coded, arranged with intention, and the pattern points toward who will be next. Now trapped in a place that no longer feels harmless, AC and Gabriel race against time to decode the killer's design. Each discovery brings them closer to the truth-and closer to danger. The killer isn't hiding in the shadows; they're right there, blending in, watching fear spread with every passing minute. As the list shortens, the question becomes terrifyingly simple: will AC and Gabriel uncover the murderer in time, or will the Midnight Cafe claim them too?

do you have a ghost in your house? do you want him to stay? stranger things s2-

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This story may contain mature themes including crime, violence, and psychological tension. Reader discretion is advised. Law enforcement procedures in this story are fictionalized for entertainment purposes. ✧═══════༺༻═══════✧ Murders. One after another. The city is paralyzed with fear. One man among thousands holds the truth - and the guilt. Clues are surfacing, but none make sense. Ajay Agarwal - hotshot celebrity and head of the elite SCI Division - stumbles into the case unknowingly. The media wants answers. The politicians want results. The killer wants something else entirely. Each victim is somehow someone Ajay knows. Coincidence... or vendetta? With pressure behind him and bloodshed ahead of him - can Ajay stop the killer before time runs out? ✧═══════༺༻═══════✧ © 2025 A.A / AA004007 All rights reserved. No part of this story may be copied, reproduced, or distributed in any form without the author's permission. This story is protected under copyright law. Wattpad timestamps confirm authorship and original creation. Respect the work. Don't steal it. Or Ajay will hunt you down for me.

A 16 old girl named Sadie Bonnett wanted to be a detective in her small town,and her school gave her a chance to become one by making a project about the not solved murder than happened 8 years ago that was announced as closed.

Insanity is one word to describe the state Michael Townsend feels himself in has he is persisting he isn't grieving, he can't grieve someone he hasn't lost. But can his mind be taken off his problems? the darkness that wanted to take him as he lay in his cold bed. The answers is somewhere between waking up and going to sleep, the only moments Michael can see her dark brown eyes again.

What would you do if you had all the fame in the world...only for a little murder to take it all away? *** Once regarded as 'The Sherlock Holmes of LA', Sarah Rathmore has lost everything. Her money, her reputation, and her career. All because of one bad case. But now, she has a chance to redeem herself. She's hired by the man who ruined her life --- The showrunner of the reality TV series, The Final Bow --- to solve the truth behind the unfortunate murder that's happened near the stage. What seems at first as an open-and-shut case reveals a web of deception that surrounds the darkest corners of the glittering set. Can Det. Sarah solve the case before she too is consumed by the dark side of fame? *** Updates every Monday and Thursday!

Inspired by Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and ITV's Endeavour, with a queer twist! When medical student Jane Beresford recieves a letter from her family asking her to return home to attend a funeral, she thinks she can take this as an opportunity to reunite with the family of the deceased and support them in hard times. Unfortunately for her, there is always some queer affair or the other in Hazel Hall. With her trusted flatmate Cynthia Jones, she returns to her childhood home to learn that the serene countryside is not all that it seems...

One believes in power. One believes in truth. One makes the rules. The other follows them-but always on her own terms. It is a story where love is not gentle; it is claimed. A rising politician, Trijal believes in power, control, and the certainty that in this world, trust is always temporary. Every move he makes is calculated, every bond measured by its usefulness. Shraddha believes in truth-in quiet strength, in integrity that does not bend easily, she believes in sometimes silence speaks louder than voice. When their worlds collide, power meets resistance, control meets defiance, and desire grows where it should not. Bound by rules, secrets, and unspoken choices, they must learn that power can command obedience-but only the heart can demand loyalty.

Loneliness is something Elise is accustomed too. Being dealt a bad hand, Elise lives in an orphanage in a small town, with her own friends being the clouds in the sky. Her bright imagination and curious way of thinking brings her down to earth, where she deals with bullies in class, frustrating teachers and the growing fear that she'll never meet someone like her. However, when the mysterious death of a classmate occurs, Elise becomes curious about what is truly happening at Sagemore Orphanage.

- 𝖇𝖆𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖋𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖎𝖉𝖔𝖑 𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖌 What happens when a group of talented yet distinct actors is set to perform a play on Broadway about a wedding? Director Jawed Khan is making this play his comeback. But of course, no show doesn't suffer through 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 hiccups. However, when a brutal killing sweeps the stage, most of the actors let the police do their job, unlike newcomer actress Megan Carmichael, who struggles to let the case go this easily. When Detective Benoit joins the case, he and Megan team up to identify the perpetrator and bring justice to the cast and crew of the production. That is, before time runs out. - 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅-𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆!

Detective Jaykren Hatanaka and Julius Delaron are childhood friends who also happen to be partners in their detective work. After not taking on a case for a while, they suddenly learn that one of their other childhood friends has been murdered. When no leads could be found, Jaykren makes it his duty to solve this case. But things in Sanchez University gets weird as nostalgia clashes with the paranormal, but just what is the meaning behind all this?

"I never thought she would jump. She never had the reason to." When the popular Kobayashi Rui of Doshisha private academy takes her own life by jumping in front of a metro train, a first year; Minase is unable to shake the feeling that Rui was killed instead. Her death just didn't make sense, even more so as a forensics student herself. Mere days after the fateful incident; when Minase is taking the subway home, she hears Rui's voice from the lone telephone booth- except no one is there. Every time she steps onto the platform, she hears snippets of Rui's voice as well as conversations playing from the hung up telephone, but no one else seems to be able to hear it. Over time, the snippets of conversation turn to pleas for help, distorted screams and recordings of Rui's last moments, revealing ugly truths one after another. The whole city is changing; crows perch everywhere in Kyoto, along with supernatural happenings that shouldn't be there. Minase sets off to find out Rui's killer before it's too late, except now, her fate is too far down the twisted path to easily steer away.

This is the firth installment of my Abersoch mystery series.

Marta Díaz Aponte, a city-born caretaker working in Hayatozca's sole orphanage, is met with the grim sight of a young man found dead in the playground with strange marks on his neck. Terrified, yet determined to keep her orphanage safe, she teams up with a paranormal investigator who is as mysterious as the killer she seeks. Her fiery resolve may be both a blessing and a curse, as she unearths secrets buried within the rural town she calls home, grows closer to her scarfed collaborator, and faces a supernatural murderer threatening both her loved ones and her sanity. ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ Sporadic updates until completion! Current cover made by me. Chapter banners created by the talented @VeraChendra © 2025 Nightingale257 || Available only on W a t t p a d.

✦ . ⁺ . ✦ . 　⁺ . ✦ 'Dedicated to whoever never truly survived art of betrayal, and to the ones that caused it.' 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘴. 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘴. The Lies Of A False Saint. ORIGINAL ADVENTURE/MURDER MYSTERY BOOK AND PLOT LINE -first draft!! not edited nor finished. SLOWBURN. ✦ . ⁺ . ✦ . 　⁺ . ✦