Classic Mystery - Stories

Robert, a contract assassin, is asked to kill Senator Elias Hutchinson but refuses, wanting to leave his violent life behind. When another killer is hired for the job, Robert turns against his former employers, battling rival assassins, Chinese hitmen, a persistent Homeland Security agent, and a mysterious newcomer. As the threat from the organization’s leader, Mehment, grows, Robert races to identify and stop his replacement before it’s too late.

Special Inspector Kellen McAdams could do with a break, but duty is calling him to Barlow Bay, where mummified corpses of illegal immigrants are causing some headaches. With a battlemage scared of himself and a bubbly druid as supports, this should hopefully be an easy one…

Even on good days Damien is a neurotic bundle of nerves. He might be a freelancer for the Barlow Bay Police Department, but getting called in makes for a decidedly bad day. And a frustrated SI and an overly sexy druid are not exactly helping…

Kate Bell got reported missing.

While Violet and Dust try to find the young witch, Nathan gets hired by the parents to "control the narrative".

The Bell family is old politic - and full of drama, scandal and more?

Or is something brewing within the secretive coven?

Well, that the non-existent bell in the old Monk Tower starts ringing surely looks like a bad omen...

Age-altering magic which shouldn't even exist is giving Cursebreaker Dust a major headache.
Special Inspector Kellen McAdams, who arrives as support, gives Dust a very different kind of ache.

How is movie maker Durham connected to the case? Or are the pub owners hiding a dark secret?

Five dead women, dressed up like clowns, holding a note: you should laugh more.

Detective Violet DeLaney and her team are investigating - there has never been a serial killer in picturesque Quincefield before!

Alex Mason and Jack Langdon have more in common then they might acknowledge. They, along with Niomi Asouta, find themselves in a paradisical location on a very important photo shoot for Ardmani. This could make or brake their careers, earn them and the company they work for lots of money. But behind the facade there are darker movements embroiling them all in a murderous whirlwind with dramatic consequences.

Note: Detective Eliott Carter appears in my short story The Vanishing Act posted on GA.

In this short story we are introduced to his sidekick, Danny Fink (Prompt 113 - Challenge). Together they investigate a fire at the Pink Flamingo club.

Damien Moreau has disappeared and his vanishing act causes waves. A well known figure in the world of art and antiquities who cannot be found raises questions. Not least from his protégé, the budding artist Ethan Blake. The investigative skills of Detective Eliott Carter are called upon, but the eventual turn of events leads only to a deepening mystery.