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My name is Grant Fieldgrove and in the summer of 1990, I accidentally solved a murder. Bakersfield, California, 1990. Local high school student Bebe-Lynn Sanders is missing. Each day that passes causes more and more worry for the entire town. She was seen cutting through Quailwood Park on her way… Read More

Tags: humor, nostalgia, coming-of-age, murder-mystery, 80s

The protagonist is a misogynist; I was reading Micker Spillane's I, The Jury and noticed how ridiculous it was, and I was like, why try hardboiled detective fiction? I actually read hardboiled detective fiction before through Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and Maltese Fiction, but Micker Spillane's I, The Jury was… Read More

Tags: hardboiled, murder-mystery, social-commentary

Every body gets that one unexpected gift for Christmas, but for this odd group, it was more than they could handle. Join them as they crack the case to this holiday heist. Will they face death right into its eye and say no? Or will they fall right into the… Read More

Tags: murder-mystery

Caleb Forrest, a twenty-two-year-old modern-day fisherman, has a tale to tell, a tale of justified murder, as he sees it. Experiencing a sort of amnesia from his last trip at sea, he pushes off aboard his prized Cat boat ‘Sea Gypsy’ for a one-day journey that will take him past… Read More

Tags: adventure, supernatural, sailing, ghost-story, murder-mystery

In the early morning hours of September 13, 1920, a tragic murder takes place at the Pulchalski farmhouse in Southington, Ohio. 12-year-old Stanley desperately runs along a dusty country road sent by his frantic mother to fetch the Sheriff. An infamous scandal unfolds over the next several weeks taking Stanley… Read More

Tags: romance, true-story, murder-mystery, true-crime, 1920s

The following preview is an excerpt from book one of my upcoming ghost novel series, The Lost Souls. The book is still in the works, and none of the chapters are completed, so it may be a while before it is released. Read More

Tags: ghosts, murder-mystery, sneak-peek, teen-horror

In a housing project in 1970s Massachusetts a lunatic is on the loose while the cops and kids in the neighborhood live out their summer Read More

Tags: coming-of-age, murder-mystery, 1970s, housing-projects

This is a work in progress. Part fiction, part non-fiction. Premise: After years of struggle, a woman, desperate to save herself, and her children, from an abusive relationship turns her thoughts to murder. Read More

Tags: thriller, murder-mystery

If you can walk backwards then you can read backwards and you never know when it might come in handy. When DCS Evans receives a report of two girls being murdered he gathers a team and starts the case. Even more confusion strikes when there is another murder on the… Read More

Tags: murder-mystery

You are a detective, solving crimes alongside the local police department. when you meet a young boy whose parents have been murdered (as yours were), you take him under your wing as your protege. but then you start finding clues pointing at him as the murderer... Read More

Tags: murder, murder-mystery, crime-scene, murder-case, crime-case

Tags: thriller, murder-mystery, unreliable-narrator, locked-room

Book / Thrillers

December 27, 2020

Reads: 74

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Maverick, a Misceo corpus, has reunited with his childhood friend, but there's something holding him back from the friendship... something that begins to shake his world forever. Read More

Tags: fantasy, mystery, misceo, murder-mystery

Short Story / Horror

November 13, 2020

Reads: 712

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Quinn Sheffield is having a very strange day... Read More

Tags: horror, halloween, slasher, dark-comedy, murder-mystery

song lyric about the mysterious 1913 murder of Mary Phagan Read More

Tags: murder, murder-mystery, mary-phagan

Chapter 1-Felix Wolff, bombastic narcissist, has been surprisingly elected President-Elect of the United States. While working from his Manhattan office tower to assemble his administration, worthies arrive all day long to interview. At this time, a chauffeur is dead behind the wheel of his limousine. Police are called and Detective… Read More

Tags: murder-mystery, nypd-detective, smart-detective, challenging-mystery

Book / Mystery and Crime

December 02, 2019

Reads: 2962

Comments: 8

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

After a visit from her nephew, Lady Casterton is found strangled, but before the police can arrest the nephew, he is found murdered. The question John Handful must discover is: who killed the killer? Read More

Tags: crime, murder-mystery, private-detective

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

October 03, 2019

Reads: 657

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Sarah was walking her dog.. but she had no idea her life was about to change forever. Walking through her local woodland, she comes across something horrific but she has no idea about the impact it'll have on her life. Read More

Tags: mystery, suicide, thrilling, homicide, murder-mystery

FAKE is a novel about a guy named Alex Kahill who inadvertently gets involved in a quagmire of international intrigue and deception leading to the Trump administration and its connection to Russia. Totally apolitical at the onset, Alex learns very quickly about the sinister connection between Russia and Trump, while… Read More

Tags: thriller, murder-mystery, anti-trump, political-mystery

Tags: murder-mystery, on-going, 1st-chapter

K and Venancio are detectives that work for a shadowy figured only known as The Marquis. In a scenario where the law is only held accountable by investors, the detective pair must navigate several moral dilemmas to solve a string of murders for the cause might be closer to… Read More

Tags: detective, sartre, murder-mystery, magical-realism, blackslivesmatter

Book / Fantasy

June 30, 2018

Reads: 534

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Raven Company, a band of assassins, are employed to find out who killed King Prospero and twelve of his advisors. Read More

Tags: fantasy, murder-mystery

Troubled with his teenage daughter, a psychologist helps police in the interrogation of a pregnant woman who is a prime suspect in the murder of her husband. Read More

Tags: murder-mystery, police-procedural

Mask of the Red Death began life as a play by email role-playing game. I've now edited it into a story, changing some of the plot elements and revising and changing some of the characters. I hope you enjoy it. Read More

Tags: horror, murder-mystery, edgar-allen-poe, masque-of-the-red-death

glance into an alternate past as the story unfolds into a not so typcial murder mystery in victorian england Read More

Tags: victorian, murder-mystery, steampuk

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

February 19, 2017

Reads: 1108

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Priyanka Singh is murdered at her house.Who killed her?See how the police solve this case. Read More

Tags: murder-mystery

A murder mystery involving interesting characters in a peculiar setting with unusual murder weapons and thought-provoking twists and turns. Read More

Tags: crime, serial-killer, murder-mystery, private-investigator

Book / Mystery and Crime

August 09, 2016

Reads: 2445

Comments: 11

The House of Ghosts House

A teenaged runaway with a supernatural gift of perception must solve a murder to save his love. Read More

Tags: love, romance, supernatural, murder-mystery, corn-dogs

Massive number of people have gone missing. Their last trace was found in an abandon hospital typically known as The Haunted hopsital. Dead bodies were found but wait a minute in all those bodies the heart was missing. Where is the heart? None witness and none evidence was found. Police… Read More

Tags: confusion, crime, obstacles, detective, murder-mystery

a tale of two mass murders. they are clever with their tracks and leave behind no trace. but after stealing a necklace, the cops quickly discover their trail. will these killers be caught? or will the world fall under their blades? Read More

Tags: murder-mystery

The story involves the discovery of a woman's body found floating in the River Ardas, in Northern Greece. Believed to be of Middle-Eastern origin, she is buried in a communal grave along with other Islamic victims of drowning and promptly forgotten. When it is later revealed that she is actually… Read More

Tags: murder-mystery, police-procedural, good-crime-fiction

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