Detective Stories

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 *** 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]]

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 *** 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]]

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]]

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]]

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]]

From Haruto Suzuki, he became Itsuki Ando after transmigration. Now, as Itsuki Ando, he must navigate all kinds of intrigues and conspiracies while keeping himself hidden from the world. Leaping from a transmigrator to the world's greatest detective, how will Itsuki manage to hide himself from the police and, most of all, the genius detectives who are out to get him by any means necessary? Follow Itsuki Ando on his adventures as he rises to greater heights. PS: The cover image was created thanks to the assistance of "ChatGPT."

In the heart of Manhattan NYPD Detective First Grade Avery Dexter, age twenty-four, a cop and recovering alcoholic, is haunted by a past he can't escape. When the murder of his neighbor's eight-year-old daughter, Emelia Joy, resurfaces painful memories of his own sister's tragic death at the same age, Avery's world spirals into chaos. Tasked with uncovering the truth behind Emelia's death, he finds himself tangled in a web of sinister secrets that link the two murders. As he races against time to track down the killer, Avery must confront his own demons and the painful connection between the two children. With his professional duty and personal vendetta intertwining, he must navigate a labyrinth of grief and vengeance to uncover the dark motivations behind these heart-wrenching tragedies. Will Avery find justice for Emelia, or will the shadows of the past consume him? If anyone who sees this story being plagiarized by someone else, please send me a quick message as soon as possible. I do not tolerate plagiarism at all, and I will sue whoever is responsible of stealing my work. ©️2025 Rebecca Clark. All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior permission of the author, except for the brief description of the book in a book review.

From being the son of a private eye that's a ghost to the world to being in a new family with bizarre members, Y/n had his own secrets to hide from his newly parents. In daylight, he was just a normal kid who had a detective website to help around his town, mainly finding people's lost cats but in the shadows, he was a vigilante hero. He had many names when he wore the mask but he fond of the title that his former father had...and since the day he wore the mask, he called himself Kamen Rider Lone. Now with a few of responsibilities, he has to maintain a safe and good life for his little sister figure, Anya while also continuing what his father started. I own nothing but this story and am grateful for the people who had made the pictures.

By sunrise, the queen was dead. They found Chloe Monroe's body behind the football bleachers-her signature pink nails caked with dirt, her phone shattered beside her like glass promises. The police said it was murder. The students said it was karma. At Crescent High, Chloe wasn't just popular-she was power wrapped in perfume and cruelty. The kind of girl who smiled at you just before she ruined your life. She could make someone disappear from the social food chain with a single rumor, and she loved doing it. But beneath the perfect hair, the designer bags, and the fake apologies, Chloe had built herself an army of enemies. Everyone had a story, a reason, a scar. A girl she exposed. A boy she humiliated. A friend she betrayed. A teacher she made loose his job. So when word spread that she was gone, nobody cried. Not really. They whispered. They speculated. Some even smiled. Because in Crescent High, everyone hated Chloe Monroe. The only mystery left- was who hated her enough to kill her. ★.·.·.·.★.·.·.·.·★ IMPRESSIVE RANKINGS: #1 in Solve, Solving, highschool mystery thriller and teen thriller all in December 2025 #1 in SOLVE 23/12/25 #2 in CASE 26/12/25 #2 in SOLVING 27/12/25 #2 in INTERROGATION 27/12/25 #1 in TEEN THRILLER 18/01/26 #8 in WHODUNNIT 14/02/26

(Y/N): "I'm Daredevil." In the small town of Woodsboro, California, a masked killer known as Ghostface begins murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their knowledge of horror movies to unmask the killer. Until a new student who appear in the Woodsboro by himself and however...he was a blinded new student and he is childhood friend of Sidney before and since they both having a lot of fun to talk with each others by themselves...a young boy had a gift power that he had a superhuman sense with ears and also touching. A young boy had a name is (Y/N) Murdock who called himself is Devil...but he is a real hero and had a name is Daredevil...he will not kill.

When private investigator Tom Hart flies back to Brooklyn for the first time in a decade, it's supposed to be for one thing: to bury his oldest friend, Jimmy Grillo. The cops call it a mugging gone wrong; a random act of violence on a quiet Bensonhurst street. But Jimmy's wife, Ann, thinks otherwise. She believes Jimmy's death has ties to Carmine Perro, a local bookie and loan shark Jimmy owed money to. As Tom digs deeper, old neighborhood ties pull him into a dangerous web of secrets, lies, and betrayal. Everyone has something to hide; Jimmy's gambling debts, Ann's complicated marriage, even the cop investigating the case.

Fukuzawa Tsukasa had been a member of the Armed Detective Agency for as long as she could remember and the adopted daughter of Fukuzawa Yukichi. She is a powerful ability user who can generate and manipulate electricity at will. Though it was completely different from her ability's true form. She had to use a limiter just to suppress her immense power, preventing her from going berserk. Tsukasa had been away from the agency for a classified overseas job and only came back a year after she completed her assigned mission. However, the moment she returned, she had an unfortunate encounter with Nakahara Chuuya, a Port Mafia executive who was also a gravity manipulator. Things had gotten worse when she accidentally broke his expensive wine, and now, she owed him a massive debt that was thrice her annual salary at the Agency, much to her sheer horror. The compensation? She must be at his beck and call every time he needed her great assistance. A/N: I do not own Bungo Stray Dogs or any of its characters, excluding the OC. The credit still goes to the original author of the story. Date Started: 12/25/2025 Date Ended:

Copyright © 2024. A not-so-straightforward love story. The saying "opposites attract" is used to say that people who are very different from each other, in terms of personality or interests are often drawn to each other. The said saying describes two hearts; Khalil Ahmad Sambo and Ameera Bukar Babangida. Khalil Ahmad Sambo, a civil engineer full of optimism, an outgoing individual with a benign aura. He is the man who wears his heart on his sleeve, and his smile is the most visible part. Yet, his standards and values are unwavering when necessary. Ameera Babangida, a reserved, ambivalent, and determined young adult with a pretty normal life, surrounded by loving family and friends and working at a well-known company as an architect, her life is simple. One could say that she rarely, or never even pays attention to anything outside her career and family. Until a trip to Kaduna changed everything in her own little bubble for her. Started: 6|10|24 Completed:

(Yandere L. Lawliet x OC (technically y/n)) 𝑑𝑖·𝑚𝑖𝑛·𝑢·𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 - extremely or unusually small. REWRITING!! ──────── Where 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒐 𝑨𝒐𝒌𝒊 meets the greatest detective in the world without realizing she's been on his radar for quite some time as Y/N L/N. Will she unravel the mystery behind Kira and her cursed life before he unravels her first?

The video starts a little shaky, with Y/n L/n grinning into the camera as she walks through 221B Baker Street. "Hey, guys. Welcome to Baker Street. I'm Y/n L/n, and this is our little world of tea, murder boards, questionable life choices, and-" She turns the camera. Sherlock Holmes is on the sofa, eating toast, curls a mess, looking deeply unimpressed. "-the world's only consulting detective, the great Sherlock Holmes." Sherlock looks at the camera, mouth half-full. "Your standards for greatness are worryingly low." Y/n giggles. "See? Charming." "I am occasionally charming," he says, then points his toast at her. "Usually when you deserve it." Y/n's smile softens. "That was almost sweet." "Don't make it strange." She turns the camera back to herself. "Anyway, don't let Sherl scare you off. He looks dramatic, but he remembers tea orders and pretends that isn't affection." "I heard that." "I know." Sherlock sighs, but there's a fond little smile hiding at the corner of his mouth. "She steals my chips, interrupts my experiments, and somehow makes this place less unbearable." Y/n pauses. "Sherl." "What?" "That was sweet." "It was factual." A sudden bubbling noise comes from the kitchen. They both freeze. Y/n turns slowly. "...Sherl?!" Sherlock shot to his feet. "Bugger." Y/n laughs into the camera as he shoots past her. "Okay, got to go. Welcome to Baker Street!" There was a loud clatter in the background. Then Sherlock's voice, offended and distant: "Don't laugh, Y/n/n, that's nitric acid-" The video cut off there.

A painting resurfaced overnight from the ancestral village of the renowned economist. With the sudden disappearance of the man himself, chaos spreads across the district. Some call him a scammer. Others claim it's a trap laid by his enemies. In search of answers, a team of investigators arrive at the forgotten village - only to be met with dread and silence. The villagers whisper a single chilling phrase: "The painting that tells her tale shall not be heard." But how do you silence something that was meant to be heard? In the heap of mysteries, found a secret buried under the weight of deception. The economist had a daughter. Hidden from the world. Her name is Anamika. ______________________________ Anamika had only one dream - to have a place she could call home, and the comfort of loved ones she once lost. But homes often bear the scars of broken dreams and unrequited tales. After spending 13 years in captivity, her heart knew no bounds of joy when she was told she might finally be free. But destiny has its own twisted ways of binding us. With the mysterious disappearance of her father, and her mother's death years before, home became nothing more than a gilded cage. Everything she had ever loved had long since left that cage - except the sound of anklets, which still echoed through the corridors of her memory. And now, with the sudden appearance of a painting... "A painting that tells her own tale". Anamika stands on the weathered ruins of the world she once saw burning with her own eyes. Tears in her gaze, she prepares to uncover the truth her ancestors buried beneath the opulent tale of their magnificence. Brave enough to face the secrets of her past - But is she brave enough to face the truth of the painting ? ______________________________ Sometimes, the bravest souls are not the most courageous - But the ones with nothing left to lose.

Based on an Algerian Myth. On October 1st, 1981, an entire village vanished without a trace. No bodies. No blood. Nothing. Detective Lost of the Aegis Anomalies Division has one job: find out what happened to the people of Mawder Village. But there's a problem everyone who's ever investigated this case has disappeared. Detectives, forensics teams, search parties... gone. As if they never existed. The only clues are scattered paperwork, a VHS tape stained with blood, and a warning. Armed with nothing but his instincts and a dark sense of humor, Detective Lost marches into the fog-shrouded village. But some mysteries don't want to be solved.

Weary PI Tom Hart takes a case from seductive widow Danielle Carter after her husband's murder. When eerie "I Love You, Danielle" postcards appear, his investigation uncovers deadly secrets, betrayal, and forbidden desire. In a world of rain, lies, and dangerous women, trust can be fatal.