- They Don't Care About Robots, Do They? Complete
- Reads 682
- Votes 136
- Parts 38
- Time 5h 18m
Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg. Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Except those cases that involved bots. Until a beautiful woman, a beautiful bot created to mimic a beautiful woman to perfection, hands him the case of a serial bot killer. The investigation takes him from deepest, darkest pits, to the gleaming, cleanest Sectors of the Tether, where Dalton finds himself involved in a conspiracy that could cost the lives of thousands, millions of humans. Walking a fine line between the human and bot worlds, Dalton must face his own humanity and mortality to bring a genius killer to justice. A hardboiled, cyberpunk, noir detective story, set in the same world as "Anna In The Garden". 🥉3rd Place, The Ōkami Awards, Sci-Fi category - Sept '22🥉 🏵Featured by @BadassReads, 'The Dauntless' Reading list - Sept '23🏵 Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture. - THE BAD GUYS IN: HARD BOILED DOUBLE FEATURE Ongoing
- Reads 2,409
- Votes 54
- Parts 16
- Time 1h 28m
In this hard boiled mystery solving double feature, the bad guys team up with two of the greatest detectives In the world: mystery inc and Tom & Jerry. Ever since mystery inc stop the bad guys, they grown up and apart so shaggy and Scooby are now detectives and with Tom and Jerry since Tom left the bad guys he joins Jerry in a detective agency But the two teams must reunite with the bad guys when: in Scooby doo he and shaggy have to stop a monster that's haunting princess and Tom and Jerry must solving a missing person case the missing person is princess They must work together to solve one of the greatest mysteries ever, but the question Is: Can Mystery inc trust the bad guys to save princess, can Tom and Jerry find princess in time before it's too late - Don't Hate Da Playa Complete
- Reads 241
- Votes 40
- Parts 10
- Time 3h 19m
After a hit-and-run occurs outside of his favorite bar, Retired Detective turned Private Eye Josh Slim is asked by the owner to find out the details of the employee's death. While the police are ruling it out as a simple hit-and-run, Slim knows better. When he finds out the victim was quite the ladies' man, Slim teams up with the victim's sexy, single female college professor to find her student's killer. - The Sudden Dark Complete
- Reads 747
- Votes 122
- Parts 24
- Time 2h 0m
An alcoholic, a loner, a police detective on suspension: Max Hendricks is busy hitting his lowest point when he agrees takes on a favour in his spare time to track down a young ex-con who's disappeared with some money that doesn't belong to him and a lot of secrets along with it. But there are other people looking for him, too -- people with murder on their minds and a bitter, tangled past at their heels... - Kisses Are Like Bullets Complete
- Reads 657
- Votes 92
- Parts 12
- Time 3h 21m
Retired Detective Josh Slim has decided to go into the private eye business for some supplemental income; however, the person who just hired him was someone he never expected to see again. An ex-con, who Slim put away years ago, is back out on the streets, and she has enlisted the former detective to help her find a man who stole two-hundred million dollars from her before she went off to prison. Thinking this small job will lead to a bigger payoff, Slim takes it, but soon finds himself involved with strippers, killers, and even The Feds. As things heat up, he wonders if it was best if he just stayed retired. - A Noir Christmas Complete
- Reads 103
- Votes 5
- Parts 3
- Time 11m
In West Hollywood Alex Harlow, down on his luck, bags a last minute missing person job before Christmas Day. Can he find the individual before the festive season starts? This is an homage to the golden era of detective fiction. The hardboiled man in the mackintosh of this story bears more than a passing resemblance to the hero of The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. - The Vanishing Body Complete
- Reads 42
- Votes 0
- Parts 8
- Time 13m
Max Palmer is on the case, and this one involves the wrong body showing up at a funeral. - Max Payne Complete
- Reads 4,991
- Votes 67
- Parts 25
- Time 2h 59m
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain... Check out my debut YA novel here: http://www.blackrosewriting.com/childrens-booksya/thegraveyardgirlandtheboneyardboy Follow me on Facebook @MartinMatthewsWrites - We Will Begin Again Complete
- Reads 45
- Votes 4
- Parts 11
- Time 37m
A detective must solve a mystery of the disappearance of several people, all whom owned self driving cars. I wrote this story for my Master's. Please enjoy. - Fatal Connections Complete
- Reads 921
- Votes 92
- Parts 81
- Time 5h 20m
While battling drug addiction and post-traumatic demons, can a female veteran overcome the forces trying to frame her for murder? When Marine veteran and aspiring private eye Erica Jensen gets a frantic call for help from a client-the female half of a social media influencer couple-she springs into action. Unfortunately, she arrives at their house only to find their bodies, butchered, in the basement. Despite her cooperation with police, the homicide detectives on the case consider Erica a possible "person of interest." As Erica struggles to exonerate herself, she draws unwanted attention from a mysterious stranger. Meanwhile, witnesses who could clear her wind up dead. Can Erica fight forces powerful enough to frame her for murder without getting herself or more civilians killed? - The Money Club a Caleb Joyner Mystery Ongoing
- Reads 111
- Votes 0
- Parts 15
- Time 1h 52m
Caleb Joyner has been asked to find a million dollar embezzler but before he can take a single step in her direction he finds himself in the crosshairs of rival Vietnamese gangs who will soon teach him that some people get the money and some the club! - Arrant Knight, Episode One: Dr. Vulturi Complete
- Reads 15
- Votes 1
- Parts 1
- Time 19m
In a 1930s anytown, USA called Arrant City, a hardboiled detective with a heart of gold - Lenny Zollins - AKA Zollie or LZ - fights crime of the ... unusual variety. - The Split Man (Holden Burke #2) Complete
- Reads 246
- Votes 60
- Parts 21
- Time 2h 39m
"I've known a lot of people with worse lives than you. It's part of the business I'm in -- I get to see all kinds of human privilege, human weakness, human strangeness...and human trouble." Holden Burke has better things to do than run around in the messy love life of a rich kid who wants to find his runaway fling. But that was before a body turned up in a lake, and someone who has a connection to it seemed to have gone missing. Someone who everyone is searching for... (cw: violence, homophobic language) - Jade and Blood: A Samuel Sloan mystery Complete
- Reads 9
- Votes 0
- Parts 1
- Time 33m
Jade and Blood is the first mystery featuring Detective Samuel Sloan, a hardboiled private investigator in Los Angeles 2107 and his holographic secretary Sarah. One Arthur Dowles has contacted Mister Sloan. A valuable jade frog has gone missing from his private collection and he wants it back before the theft goes public. - The Jar of Nephren-Ka Complete
- Reads 216
- Votes 41
- Parts 34
- Time 5h 10m
'Rev' Parata is a PI stuck in the orbit of the Big Easy in the 1980's. Life is rough, and he's barely fending off racists and criminals when a member of the British aristocracy offers him a case that is too good to be true. Chasing down his mark, Rev finds himself face-to-face with powers beyond understanding and turns to his people's medicine to guide him through.
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