Read New Mystery and Crime Short Stories

3,520 results

Advanced

Popular Tags:

View:
Mystery and Crime
Short Story


Premium Member Boost

Start Reading

Short Story / Other

December 31, 1969

Reads: 431

Likes: 3

Shelves: 1

Gas stations and rest stops are part of every road trip, an often necessary distraction from the long journey. when Darren and Morissa Miller take a break at an abandoned desert gas station, they find more than old mechanic tools lurking in the shadows. To save their marriage and their… Read More

Premium Member Boost

Start Reading

Book / Thrillers

December 31, 1969

Reads: 36

Likes: 1

Fasten your seatbelts and hold onto your hand rest for the air-tight aviation thrilling series! Robert Johnsen is born to fly; eyes always locked on the horizon. If he’s not working at Pilots N Paws or freight operating, he’s a volunteer disaster responder with AERObridge, venturing into dangerous terrains to… Read More
How to Boost your writing
Start Reading
Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 16, 2019

Reads: 28

Fifteen year old Fawn Rosewood finds her younger sister Delilah brutally murdered in the haunted Forest of Alterspine. She must leave her there and save herself by getting out of that forest. But the incidents that follow might just drive her insane. Read More

#horror, #pain, #mystery

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 15, 2019

Reads: 81

#life, #kids, #failures, #exchanges

Start Reading
This is a narrative way of presenting a story to present of how a criminal is made. Read More

#unwanted, #scam, #make

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 12, 2019

Reads: 88

Comments: 1

Start Reading
DARK FANTASY Dani invites Chantal to stay with her in her beach house - as her model. Dani invites Faith to stay with her in her beach house - as her muse. Dani is dangerous.. Read More

#dark-fantasy

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 11, 2019

Reads: 44

A teenage girl, Viola, discovered that something strange has been happening around her. She has been sharing a bad relationship with her family ever since her beloved mother went missing. Owing to the lack of trust and affection from her family, Viola can only turn to her best friend, Alex,… Read More

#love, #friendship, #family, #mystery, #friends

Start Reading
What is believable and what is not? A hostel warden after an unsuccessful inspection spends a mysterious night only to question what is believable..... Read More

#horror, #mystery, #drama, #crime, #separation

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 09, 2019

Reads: 58

Shelves: 1

This is a mystery, crime, thriller, suspense, and occult short-story. A whodunit, of sorts. Read More

#mystery, #crime, #suspense, #occult, #thriller

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 08, 2019

Reads: 109

Comments: 2

John Handful leaves a town where he is no longer wanted. But nothing is what it seems Read More

#crime, #murder-mystery, #private-detective

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 07, 2019

Reads: 190

Comments: 2

Start Reading
A Mystery on many levels is just beginning to unfold in Crux Harbour, where things are not exactly what they seem. Read More

#murder, #mystery, #serial, #crux, #donald-harry-roberts

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 06, 2019

Reads: 98

Shelves: 1

A young woman approaches a private detective with a peculiar problem. She had been picked over scores of other candidates for a position as a nanny just outside the Suffolk coastal town of Oxmarket. The one immutable requirement was that she cut her hair to a particular style. She was… Read More

#crime, #murder-mystery, #private-detective

Start Reading
A woman sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined "Death at Sea" and knows a murder has been committed. Read More

#crime, #murder-mystery, #private-detective

Start Reading
A short story about a scam. Read More

#scam, #created-fear

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 04, 2019

Reads: 148

Comments: 1

A story on Lia, and how her life was being staged and changed. Read More

#she-is-fake

Start Reading

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

June 04, 2019

Reads: 78

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

REAL LIFE - MURDER Green, Green Grass of Home. Something Stupid. Release Me. Like a Puppet on a String. From: The Seven Scientists by HJ Furl Read More

Featured Review by Alexandra Layne

"So beautifully written, empathetic and descriptive, and such an outburst of emotions! It held my attention until the last phrase." Read More

#the, #window, #face, #at, #seven-scientists

Start Reading
Prepare for long term mysterious, quirky para-something or other, mayhem, thrilling twisted entertainment. Read More

#mystery, #short-stories, #donald-harry-roberts

Start Reading
A story based on a subconscious VIVID Dream state, where a group of Japanese girls go on a camping trip for a HS senior outing and one name Mariko finds a strange event that would undo the trials of an event that would shake the world of Japan and undo… Read More

#spirituality

Start Reading

Reads: 60

Comments: 1

A little girl tells her mother of terrible dreams, a horrible future, only to learn otherwise. The story shifts in unsuspected directions and incorporated rhidden real world events not of the norm, the unusual parties of Seattle, local celebs, rich and powerful. The beutiful young mother's love for her little… Read More

#deepstate, #wws1wsa, #crimes-against-humanity

Start Reading

Reads: 72

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

This is a thank you letter and update made nessessary by ancient agreement. The reader will learn of thier part in an amazing investment only now allowed to come to light. A tail of ancient powerful forces in our day to day lives and their subtle influence upon seemingly random… Read More

#end-of-days, #deepstate, #wws1wsa

Start Reading

Reads: 311

Comments: 3

Shelves: 2

Jack Donovan decides to go on a walk when he comes across a car crash and becomes involved in a mystery with international intrigue. Read this sequel of "If you Could Hear What I See" and "Death On A Beach" and find out. Photo by Mattia Righetti on Unsplash Read More

Featured Review by Alexandra Layne

"Very nicely penned. Your plotting is good as well." Read More

#murder, #mystery, #crime

Start Reading
A young daughter of a high powered General in the Earth Federation went rogue after they had divorced and she was living with her mother, causing unrequest and chaos on Earth against the Federation. Now head to head with her dad, he had to make a choice to embrace her… Read More

#science-fiction

Start Reading

Reads: 79

Life was never the same after a single call. Read More

#mystery

Start Reading
This is a Short story presented in the form of a letter. Hope you enjoy it. Read More

#life

Start Reading

#crime, #mafia

Start Reading
How a girl can be turned into a mental health patient. A story of a girl and what her phases of life were. Read More

#patient, #created, #mental-health

Start Reading
This is a story of Sunaina. A indian girl. Hope you enjoy this Fictional story. Its life scenarios i have seen around me which had help me write this fictional story. Hope you like it. Read More

#indian, #sunaina, #helpless-women, #ameircan

Start Reading

Reads: 57

Based on a newsfeed on WDC.com, by userm ' i am bear' (unbear) and it inspired me to pen this piece. A murder mystery of two kids finding a deserted house, and an eerie clock whose chime hides a murder in the making. Read More

#horror

Start Reading
An erotic tale of a young woman of lust as she is visited by a mysterious stranger. Read More

#romance

Start Reading

#mafia

Start Reading

Reads: 90

Comments: 1

It was Ram's account that helped to solve the mystery of death. Read More

#death, #murder, #mystery, #crime

Start Reading

Reads: 112

Comments: 2

Sometimes we change. Sometimes we try to change. Sometimes... Read More

#mystery, #short-stories, #donald-harry-roberts

Start Reading
A short story about a lonely monk's encounter with a mysterious traveller high up in the mountains. Read More

#mountain, #wind, #whispers, #monk, #traveller

Start Reading
You will know at the end of the story who was actually guilty? Read More

#accused, #hike, #salary, #supervisor, #cctv

Start Reading

Reads: 76

It's 2022 and Private Investigator Derek Steele has been hired to find a missing immigrant rights activist in a crumbling American city. What he finds in his search imperils his life and his beliefs. Read More

#crime, #dystopia

Start Reading

#mystery, #lesbian, #triller

Start Reading
After a disagreement with his over-bearing, dominating, father, Craig Morgan runs away from home. But, he is not alone. What danger lurks ahead, behind, or maybe even all around him? Read More

#mystery, #crime

Start Reading
Disappear and never return. That's what she did, but is it enough? Read More

#fiction

Start Reading
My brother and I went fishing and got caught up in a murder mystery that took 20 years to solve. There must be something to mental wave lengths, After I wrote this story and posted it on Facebook, a woman and her boyfriend were arrested for murder. This is only… Read More

#murder, #fishing, #false-arrest

How to Boost your writing
Booksie 2019 First Chapter Novel Contest

Welcome New Writers

Gabriel Barria
tbird84
ellen67
Ezekiel Hallinquest
Beatnikant
dadandw

Genres

Types