Detective and mystery stories

Overview "Lucy Brownstein is beautiful and mysterious, but we already knew that, because like all stories about women like Lucy, she disappears. The only thing she leaves behind is security footage from the laundromat a Sunday morning in which she can be seen folding laundry, taking a phone call, and then leaving it all behind. John Doherty, who knows Lucy from spending mornings together at her bus stop, told her a dark secret of his own the morning of her disappearance. When John starts digging into...

Overview "Hysteria is a young adult novel about a teenage girl named Emma who witnessed her granmother being kidnapped by something inexplicable when she is young. Now a decade later, strange things are once again occuring and Emma is determined to solve the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance once and for all. One evening she finds an injured boy in an alley and they are transported into Emma's favorite novel, Hysteria. She discovers the not so fictional world is much richer and more...

Overview "I Think He Did It is a cozy mystery set in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains. Walker, a Sheriff's Deputy in a small town, is trying to help his former fiancée, Vera, track down what may have happened to their best friend three years earlier. Walker is determined to do whatever he can to keep Vera safe in a town that has only just emerged from a major corruption scandal, while Vera is determined to cause as much chaos as she can until her friend is found, safety be damned." --...

Overview "This thesis is the first act of an urban fantasy mystery novel set in modern day New York City, at a time when where vampires and humans live, play, and work side-by-side with each other. These pages set up how Morgana Lux, a vampire and journalist at a tabloid newspaper, is drawn into an NYPD Paranormal Crimes Division investigation involving the appearance of dismembered body parts and partners up with Detective Edward Sterling to help identify and stop a killer whose victims are humans...

Overview "This young adult murder mystery follows Veda, a time traveler from another realm who was born to lessen the death and destruction caused by humans throughout their history. When her sister is murdered at her graduation ceremony and the leaders make little progress, Veda takes the situation in her own hands to find out who killed her sister and why. While dealing with grief as well as worsening obsessions and compulsions, she, her best friend and crush, Nazem, and her brother, Elijah, travel...

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A detective novel about a city where the police force is run like an HMO. Only one detective - Nolan Cobb - doesn't frame innocent people. Cobb catches a high-profile case, and falls for a frame-up job that someone carefully orchestrated for him. He conti

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"T-Shirt in Winter, a mystery and suspense novel written in screenplay format, tells the story of a stranger who enters a small southern town centered around a cemetery. A literary blend of southern gothic and film noir, the book examines identity, individuality, authority, and oppression, while probing society’s propensity for snap judgements and stereotyping." -- Abstract

Overview "When eleven-year-old Max, a brilliant boy with serious physical handicaps, and his best friend, Tucker, drag a bone out of the Lindenwood Forest, they unearth a twenty- year-old crime and set off a chain of events that threaten their lives. In their often- swashbuckling misadventures, they are joined by Max's cousin, Isabella, a Black teen from Detroit who's hiding secrets of her own, and Max's uncle, Jordan, charismatic ringleader for the family circus. Complicating matters, the body of an...

Overview "On the eve of her engagement party, Veralyn LaStrauss, apprentice to master cartographer Richard Grayson, discovers her mentor has been kidnapped. His half-brother Matthias is the primary suspect. Named in the ransom note, Veralyn is tasked with finding a mysterious map called the Tagon Map to exchange for Master Grayson's return. During her search, she discovers a note from Master Grayson warning that dangerous magic—tied to the crystal containing the map—has infected her home city of Port...

Overview "Declan Colón Mayhew desperately needs divine intervention. It's not because he's a junior without a real plan for life after college. It has nothing to do with the fact that he's not over his secret ex, a boy whose gentle love Declan doesn't think he deserves. It might not even be because he's not sure what happened last summer, with his mother's broken body and the murder weapon in his hand. Rather, it's because of the death-drenched reoccurring nightmares that lead to him waking up...

Overview "Maria Ramirez and Cameron Darcy's worlds collide when a missing person entagles them in a web of lies and tragedy forcing them to lean on each other to find their way to the truth. Maria, a journalist, tries to leave her small town life and secrets behind when she moves to the city of Baton Rouge. But the past soon catches up to her and she'll have a choice to make if she wants to reclaim herself. P.I. Cameron Darcy is about finding his target, moving in, so he can move on. Always looking...