Found 103 works tagged 'Mystery'.
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Death in the Hospital
Published Mar 31, 2020 · 5,287 words (20 minutes) · 1 like · 132 views
Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction Strange post-apocalypse whodunnit murder mystery
Min is an aging healer in post-apocalyptic England with an unusual set of skills. This time, she'll need to use those skills to track down a killer in her makeshift hospital before tense relationships in her town fray completely.
Stephen Cox lives and works in England, and he's the author of the critically-acclaimed Our Child of the Stars.
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Mastermindless
Published Mar 30, 2020 · 7,633 words (28 minutes) · 135 views
Fantasy Mystery Archonate Hapthorn
The story that introduced Henghis Hapthorn, foremost freelance discriminator of Old Earth in its penultimate age.
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Thicker Than Water
Updated Mar 18, 2020 · 18,239 words (67 minutes) · 14 views
Horror Mystery suspense small town thrillers superstitions
When Duncan MacDoyle learns of a death in the family, he is forced to return to the hometown he left after his mother died. Immediately reunited with the superstitions of the towns people, Duncan is plunged headlong into the history of the eccentric old mill town and his family's role in its mysterious past.
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Valley of the Shadow
Published Mar 16, 2020 · 646 words (3 minutes) · 65 views
Fantasy Horror Mystery Historical Ghoul flash fiction Historical horror Civil War
In this piece of flash fiction, a Civil War soldier encounters a fate more horrific than death on the battlefield.
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An Ocean of Stars
Published Mar 13, 2020 · 803 words (3 minutes) · 33 views
Fantasy Mystery belonging Love book ocean stars reading
Reading is as important to her as breathing, and through reading she finds meaning in her life. But what happens when the book which holds the greatest stories she has ever read is finally reaching an end?
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The Vindicator
Published Mar 6, 2020 · 14,187 words (52 minutes) · 1 like · 160 views
Fantasy Mystery Dying Earth Cascor Raffalon Matthew Hughes
This is a tale of Raffalon, a thief of the Dying Earth. But it also features his sometime associate, Cascor, a former provostman become freelance discriminator (ex-cop, private eye). I'm about to start a new series of stories featuring Cascor and a couple of other characters who come into this story. So I thought it was a good time to bring him back into view.
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Learning to write a mystery: Last End
Updated Feb 26, 2020 · 1,880 words (7 minutes) · 24 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) · 375 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) · 41 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 · 46 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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