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After losing his wife to cancer, Al is searching for a fresh start. Once an advanced-level pickleball player, he hopes that moving to the small border town of Rio Viejo and returning to the game he loves will help him heal. But just as he begins to settle in, players… Read More

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An up-and-coming magician just wants a good start in life, so he visits a strange travel agency that hooks him up with The Host. He's sent to an island to fulfill his fantasy, but things are not as they seem and he soon realizes he should never have come to… Read More

Tags: murder-mystery, fantasy-island, sleep-killing

doug havacek retires after thirty-two years as a deputy sheriff in southeast wisconsin. he buys a house in algonquin county in northern wisconsin to enjoy his retirement in the north woods, remodels the house, and checks out the fishing on local lakes. to give himself something to do when the… Read More

Tags: detective-fiction, murder-mystery

In the heart of London's shadowy streets, Detective Inspector Lina Haines finds herself embroiled in a case that blurs the lines between her professional duties and personal loyalties in "From Hell". When her husband, Benji Haines, is implicated in a gruesome murder, Lina must navigate the treacherous waters of a… Read More

Tags: stalking, whitechapel, crime-thriller, murder-mystery, jack-the-ripper

In the heart of Chicago's underworld, four souls converge at Maxwell DeWitt's birthday celebration, where secrets unravel, and redemption hangs in the balance. Can they confront their pasts and emerge unscathed, or will they be consumed by the shadows of the night? Read More

Tags: dark, chicago, noir, whodunnit, murder-mystery

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Tags: love-triangle, murder-mystery, crime-story, perfect-murder, detective-stroy

Outside a small Louisiana town, people mysteriously disappear during summer thunderstorms. Even more confounding is that the killer leaves no bodies, only bones. Three Louisiana lawmen tackle the case that will change their lives forever and reveal a new, bizarre killer. Dodging a persistent television news reporter who believes this… Read More

Tags: murder-mystery, bayou-monster, louisiana-fiction

3 detectives hunt for suspects in the murder of a middle-aged woman. What happens is shocking. Read More

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Sample my writing with a short story that fast forwards to the best part of any cozy mystery, the recap. The ending of the story where the master detective spells out the crime, the suspects, and whodunit but from a unique POV. Read More

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A cautionary tale of how big government, big pharma and bad science can result in big trouble for the United States and the World. A story that explores the possibility of duplicity between powerful forces whose methods are deadly wrong, and one man's struggle of survival and his efforts to… Read More

Tags: survival, murder-mystery, government-conspiracy, cozy-mystery, covid-origin-novel

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In a world where you learn magic, young Hera is just startng out. She attends Misfitters School of Misfitted Wonders, but when a murder strikes, its up to her to stop a war. Read More

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How much healing is done in therapy and Reiki, and how much in personal soul-searching - that takes you on the path to murder mystery so gruesome, the previous civilization has actually collapes because of it? Max Frei was able to blur genres and escape the world into more magical… Read More

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Book / Thrillers

December 27, 2020

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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

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Short Story / Horror

November 13, 2020

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Comments: 2

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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

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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: 4449

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

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