Thrills Stories

This story will become free again on 3 March 2025. It will be removed from Wattpad at some point in the not too distant future. Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists. Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats. With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists. To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . . "Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series". [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T

Just a regular job.... Get in, crack the safe, fetch the diamonds. That's what hobby cat burglar and acclaimed jewelry maker Calendar Moonstone has aimed for. Instead she finds a dead body, meets a handsome Detective, has a nosey insurance investigator on her tracks and manages a complicated boyfriend situation. And must solve a century old jewelry mystery!

Ashley Everson had cheated death, but not on his own. After a miraculous recovery, he discovers he's not alone in his body anymore. Something lurks, whispering in his ear a language he can't understand, inviting a chasm of reality he didn't even know existed, inverting his life as he knows it. Is it responsible for his survival? Or is it just using him to hide from something much worse? What does the entity even want? What does it mean to his own mortality? Where did the entity even come from? Ash decides to find out before something much worse hunts down whatever is hiding inside of him. **Awarded 1st place in the Paranormal category for the Cleaved Awards 2019.** **Highest Ranked. Number 3 in Mystery. Number 2 in Thriller.** #bookiestars #EliteAwards2019 #diademawards #tea2020

While investigating the chilling deaths of three teenage girls in the remote town of Briarwood, Detective Evan O'Riley is drawn into the unsolved mysteries of a notorious 1960s serial killer. Three sixteen-year-old girls have plunged from the roof of their school. The question lingers: did they jump, or were they pushed? Tasked with uncovering the truth, Evan O'Riley---seasoned by years of crime-solving in Riverton---arrives in Briarwood, determined to discover whether he's facing triple homicide or a heartbreaking suicide. As he delves into the case, Evan uncovers unsettling whispers about the town's infamous SAD Killer, whose string of brutal murders left Briarwood haunted---and whose identity was never discovered. Fifty years later, the ghosts of the past resurface as Evan combs through long-buried evidence, tracks down survivors, and seeks out old investigators tied to the original crimes. Driven to find answers for both the present and the past, Evan is relentless in his pursuit of justice. But as old secrets come to light and the investigation intensifies, Evan realizes the SAD Killer's legacy isn't as distant as he believed---the danger may be closer than anyone imagines.

[Hightest Ranking #68 in Mystery/Thriller] Pretty Little Liars meets Criminal Minds. Class is in session and failure isn't an option. Isabeth Ovien is the campus do-gooder with a sinister secret. Faith Payson is the campus bitch. And Benjamin Lemen is the outcast they all try to avoid. But when students at their elite boarding school start dying they have to do the unthinkable; work together. Old wounds are reopened. Secrets are discovered and lies are unearthed, but will it be enough to stop the evil that's lurking. Sometimes you have to break the law to do the right thing.

Alianna Winter thought her detecting days were over when she solved the case of the Merryweather Jewel Thefts. But never had she ever been so wrong. An innocent visit to the country village of Lesser Farthing twists into one of the most dangerous investigations Allie has faces so far. Two apparent suicides-but neither ringing entirely true. And the murderer will do anything to cover his tracks... -The third book in the Alianna Winter series. Her earlier cases: 1.Death At Scarlet Leaf 2. The Merryweather Jewel Thefts Her later cases: 4.Murder Is At Hand 5. The Incident Concerning The Alsatian Dog 6. At The Plaza Majestic 7.Madame Juror 8.A Murder Shall Commence 9.The Impossible Poisoning 10.The Final Endgame The Toby Smart Spin-offs: What Makes A Detective What Breaks A Detective

Fashionista Cheline Morgan's life is turned upside down following the discovery of a corpse outside the building where her best friend lives. After coming to terms with the death, Cheline attempts to solve the mysterious circumstances surrounding it, while her best friend appears more guilty by the minute. Will she find the murderer before her BFF ends up in jail or worse...dead? Cover by the incredibly talented @x_Luminous_x.

***This story is told completely through Toby's POV*** My life has stopped... I was supposed to keep training. I was supposed to keep developing the skills that it took to be the slenderman's proxy. I was supposed to be there for Sally when she couldn't sleep. I was supposed to be between Jeff and Ben while they tried to show me a movie I could never sit still long enough for. I was supposed to be standing in front of Masky while he yelled at me about my carelessness. I was supposed to be there to receive Hoodie's reassuring smile. I was supposed to be with them... but I'm not. Something horrible happened to me...

Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is. ***** A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche? *2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller* [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque

"Oh, look, we're back home! You'll be a lamb for me now, right? Unless you'd like a bullet in that pretty little head of yours, I'd suggest you do as I say." "Starving. I've been starving for so long that I don't even care how I get it. I just want it, I need to know someone needs me." // Young Acacia finds herself kidnapped by the murderous son of a famous sociopath. How will she manage to survive the violent outbursts and mental torture?

"Soothe the devils in my head, love me to my death." In which a psychiatrist gets kidnapped by a serial killer, only to lose her mind.

In the second book in the series, the Valentine family struggles to survive, living under fake identities. Their hidden existence is threatened when a mysterious Silicon Valley billionaire takes a special interest in Johnny and Stella.

In 1950s Los Angeles, prolific "people-finder", RICK YOUNGE must find an embezzling mob accountant, a missing dead husband (who might not be so dead after all), a mystery by-mail 'secret admirerer', and his own kidnapped dog, all while trying to keep the lights on for another month and stay sober long enough to ponder what life's all about in this debut adventure for L.A.'s most 'by-the-seat-of-his-wrinkled-pants' private detective.

When Amanda was diagnosed with a reproductive disorder that was yet to be researched, she never expected to get pregnant in the strangest way possible carrying the most extraordinary child in her womb. Having an IQ of 290, which was even higher than highest ever recorded, Adam a twenty-year-old is going to set foot into the Savant University of Sciences, the best of its kind in the entire country of Pairan. What's extraordinary about him is his ability to read minds with the only condition needing to be fulfilled is that he have eye contact with them. What will happen when a series of mysteries and the buried past are unmasked to only bring up more secrets. What he doesn't know is, not every secret is a healthy one. This book is being put on hold for a while. The story is being modified and reconstructed.

Here comes something simple that turns into a mysterious case with too many traitors and questions left unanswered. 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚. An introvert with too many thoughts and actions balanced... for now. Humorous, 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁, quiet but a good liar. But what if the world she could manage and tolerate? Modern and known? 𝗛𝗮𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹? The one she'd read in stories, books, mysteries and dark articles. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣. Mysterious and cold - unlike what she had ever met before. A voice elegant just depends, with choices some maybe can't tell. Until the game becomes similar for both. Until their intelligence competes and surprises. Until the humour she would think in her head had became quiet. And his mind... slightly changed.

Seventeen year old Elias is less than happy when his family decides to up and move to a small, dreary town. Of course, his opinion doesn't matter. Not when all his dad cares about is his dutiful stepmom and do-no-wrong little sister. Compared to them, Elias' feelings are worth about as much as dust in the wind. But he quickly discovers that his new home is much more than it seems...when he stumbles upon a dead body-the morbid work of the local serial killer, La Mort Noire. Suddenly, Elias finds himself locked out of his comfort zone; tutoring a creepy rich kid that draws skeletons, hanging with a bubbly boy who sticks to him like glue, staking out criminal houses, and taking the biggest risks he'll ever take in his life, all in an effort to solve the towns mysterious deaths. Because to gain his fathers favor, Elias will do anything. Even hunt down and unveil a twisted murderer.

--- She lost six months of her life. He lost the only person who ever made him feel something real. Vidhi Murthy returns to Mumbai with a scholarship, a fake smile, and a single goal - uncover the truth her adoptive parents buried. Someone erased her past. Someone took her brother's voice. And someone is still terrified of what will happen if she remembers. Advik Malhotra is the last person she wanted to see. Arrogant. Powerful. The secret trustee of Celestial Academy. The same man who once looked at her like she mattered... then broke her like she didn't. He thought pushing her away would protect them both. He was wrong. Now she's back. Colder. Sharper. Done being the girl who cried. While a desperate mother loses her mind in a locked room and a detective chases ghosts, Vidhi starts pulling at the threads of a lie that spans years. Advik watches her every move, caught between hatred, guilt, and a pull he can't kill. She came for answers. He came ready for war. But in a game where everyone is lying... only one of them will walk away unbroken. **Fool to Believe You** Dark Romance. Psychological Thriller. Enemies to Lovers. Where love is a weapon, memory is a battlefield, and the quietest girl in the room is the most dangerous of all.

~A Kidnapper's Dream~ Once Upon A Time... There were no princesses or princes. There were no knights in shinning armor. There were no dragons to be slayed. There was a twenty-two-year-old woman named Jessalyn and it seemed like God hated her. When Jessalyn was little her parents mysteriously disappeared and a few years later she was almost murdered, but instead she was left disfigured. This was all because of the man who saved her that night, a man who left so quickly that she couldn't even see his face. Now, when Jessalyn is all grown up she's given up on everything in her life and she ends up being kidnapped. At first, Jessalyn thinks it's like Hell on Earth with her strange kidnapper, but slowly she starts to rethink it. Will Jessalyn let her emotions get the best of her? -Amazing cover by: @crazycherries Story takes places in the Victorian Era.-

A search for missing sister who no one is sure is alive or dead, a turbulent family riddled with deadly secrets that threaten to ruin them all, and a serial killer charging through the countryside all culminate in this tale of forgiveness, sorrow, and retribution. Set in the 1950's. Updated on Sundays and Wednesdays ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

She was a poison, one as sweet as honey and as lethal as monkshood. She made love to him while stabbing him in the back.