Found 97 works tagged 'Mystery'.
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Learning to write a mystery: Last End
Updated Feb 26, 2020 · 1,880 words (7 minutes) · 14 views
Mystery writing process Caren Gussoff Last End circus folk edification by embarrassment
I'm writing this and you can, literally, watch. Will I fail? Maybe. Will it be ugly? Possibly. Will I be humbled and frustrated and punch-drunk confused? Most definitely.
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Lawyers Gone Bad - Chapter One
Published Feb 24, 2020 · 2,575 words (10 minutes) · 57 views
Lawyers Gone Bad is the story of beleaguered attorney disciplinary counsel, Dean Alessi, and his trusty investigator, Stu Foley, in their fight against lawyers gone bad – that is, lawyers who commit ethical and criminal wrongs. In this case they’re investigating the local District Attorney, who may have committed the ultimate ethical wrong - murder.
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Someone Like You
Published Feb 18, 2020 · 2,234 words (9 minutes) · 17 views
Humor Mystery Satire Science Fiction Women Hysteria
"I'm more of a private dick, but you hear all the penis jokes when you track rogue uteruses." Meet the Columbo of hysteria. An early humor piece, written in 2005.
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Water Pressure - an extract
Published Feb 17, 2020 · 585 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 19 views
This month's extract is a very rough draft - from the first of what I hope will become a series of science fiction/detective novellas.
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By Hook or By Crook
Published Jan 28, 2020 · 2,731 words (10 minutes) · 41 views
Literary Fiction Mystery Romance crime novel mystery/adventure
Resuming his life after prison, Frankie Fiore is unaware of the good and evil forces working diametrically behind the scenes. The good, seeking to enrich him, the evil, plotting to kill him. He doesn’t know it yet, but shortly he will either be rich or he will be dead --- or both.
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E.F.T. A NOIR THRILLER
Published Jan 7, 2020 · 5,568 words (21 minutes) · 78 views
Mystery Police procedural sexual assault computer crime
It’s the late 20th century, the dawn of the computer age. A serial rapist is targeting senior women executives in Vancouver’s major banks and corporations. Oddball Detective Sergeant Harry Lukovitch and his female partner, DC Mackenzie Sinclair, are hunting the attacker. But Harry is falling heavily for Dory Novello, who may not be all she seems. And then it gets complicated.
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The Messiah - Prologue
Published Dec 24, 2019 · 1,607 words (6 minutes) · 1 like · 538 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Illuminati Thriller Christianity Messiah
HE has come! Will the ruling elite crucify him? Find out in this thriller about the coming a Jesus-like figure to the modern world.
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Reflected in Mirrored Skies
Published Nov 30, 2019 · 7,294 words (27 minutes) · 82 views
Mystery Science Fiction Romance venus
Even when colonizing the extreme environment of the clouds of Venus, people find ways in which to argue--and murder is the outcome.
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Becoming the Morrigan
Published Nov 30, 2019 · 995 words (4 minutes) · 84 views
Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction Detective Murder
A noir tale of murder and transformation in the distant future
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Do Good
Published Nov 13, 2019 · 6,531 words (24 minutes) · 1 like · 184 views
Fantasy Horror Mystery ghost story high school
Few people in the world are as universally distrusted and mocked as high school vice principals. When a teacher walks down the hall, groups of students will stop talking, but when a vice principal walks down the hall groups of teachers shut up. It's a terrible stereotype. Vice principals discipline students who are in trouble and evaluate teachers. How can they be liked? How can a person in that job do good?
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