Hard-boiled Detective Novels Novels & Stories

“You have this last case to prove yourself miss!" Mr Troy said with a fixed cold stare at Jessica. Jessica is a detective of the state agency who struggles evidently in solving cases. Now on a high-profile case involving a billionaire philanthropist and benefactor named Liam, assigned to her after much plea from being terminated, by her boss, Mr. Troy. Liam's family is known for their legacy and questionable wealth, with his mother ever cunning to protect the family legacy since the sudden disappearance of his father. To investigate Liam, Jessica takes up the role of his new secretary but Liam has ulterior motives for hiring her too. Jessica struggles through the new phase of her life as she tries to uncover troubling family history and questionable business dealings but she's caught in a dilemma as tension grows between her suspect and herself. As she delves deeper into the case, she is faced with new challenges, putting her in a pool of hard decisions and possible emotional vulnerability. Wavering through, she's taken by what she finds out about herself, her job, and her case.

When small town girl, Rosette, finally leaves her little town to study at Seattle, she realizes that life outside is much different from her sheltered life and family complete with romance novels. But when between juggling schoolwork and her job, she falls in love with the perfect man, she soon discovers that even love is different in the outside world, and what she believed from her novels was a far cry from the reality of love.

Once a beloved heiress and wife, Vanessa Lucas is labeled a criminal and thrown into prison for a crime she never committed. Her husband, Jacob Wilson, signs their divorce papers with cold finality unaware that Vanessa’s imprisonment was part of a covert national mission that cost her everything. Released under secret orders, Vanessa returns not as a broken woman but as General Lucas, a five-star officer with authority few dare question. Her path soon crosses with Damien Xander, the charming but ruthless heir to the Chamber of Commerce, her unlikely ally and the man who refuses to stand by while she drowns in her past. As Vanessa digs deeper into the scheme that destroyed her life, buried secrets resurface. The same power that once betrayed her now fears her return. And standing between vengeance and forgiveness is the man who once called her his wife.

My long-term relationship has finally paid off. At the wedding venue, my fiancee, Dakota Young, has just begun sliding the ring onto my finger when her first love, Kyle Robinson, calls her all the way from the country he's currently studying in. All of my friends know of Dakota as the woman who loves me more than life itself. But this very same woman doesn't hesitate to bolt in the airport's direction with red-rimmed eyes after answering the phone call. My hand is left frozen in mid-air. That's when I suddenly start seeing live comments before my eyes. "Holy hell! I just took a glimpse at the profile picture of her first love! He looks exactly like the corpse who's delivered to my department!" "Seriously? Don't go around scaring me right now! I believe in the power of science!" "Either he has a twin, or you just got the wrong person! Stay calm!" My jaw goes slack, yet I can't utter a word after a while. I know who Kyle is. That man used to be her classmate back in college. But I also remember very clearly that he's the only child in his family…

My daughter was violated and killed, yet her death was ruled a suicide. After seven failed appeals, I kidnapped the chief prosecutor’s daughter. I tied the chief prosecutor’s daughter to an autopsy table and publicly addressed the prosecutor’s office in a live stream. “I performed the autopsy myself. My daughter didn’t kill herself. She was murdered. “I’ll give you seven chances. Release the actual evidence and name the murderer publicly. Each time a chance runs out, I’ll remove one of her body parts.” The chief prosecutor and his wife knelt on the floor. They begged me desperately to spare their daughter. “The evidence proves your daughter took her own life. Stop this madness now and let my daughter go. She’s innocent.” Viewers in the live stream called me insane. They said I had lost my mind with grief and was taking it out on an innocent person. I ignored their contempt. With a sneer, I picked up a scalpel and pressed it against the judge’s daughter’s abdomen. “The clock is ticking. Hurry up and reveal the true murderer now.” I knew perfectly well the real murderer was watching the stream at that very moment.

As the older brother, I agreed to marry a dead woman just to get the five hundred thousand dollars for my younger brother to get married. My younger brother insisted that the middle-aged couple, who had lost their daughter, only wanted their daughter to experience being married before her death. My girlfriend also persuaded me to do it. She said I just needed to lie in the same bed as her for one night and do nothing. I nodded and agreed. But when I got to that family’s house, the parents pulled out a white bedsheet and handed it to me. “You have to actually be intimate with my daughter. Otherwise, I won’t pay you a single cent.”

What would you do if you were different from other humans? What if you can hear other people's minds? For Khali, this was a curse... until her brother died. To uncover the cause of his death and punish the culprits, she needs to use her curse and find out the truth.

There's a little shop downstairs that sells organ soup. It's always packed with customers. People line up as if bewitched, eager for a bowl. I've often wondered what secret ingredient made their soup so irresistible. This afternoon, I finally found my answer. Floating in my bowl was a piece of human skin—inked with a tattoo I knew all too well. It was the one etched on my boyfriend's arm.

Playing with fire will get you burned. Lilly-Ann is a 26-year-old reporter great at her job, always uncovering the truth. Until she catches a big one, Lenkov a hotel tycoon. Trouble follows her like a thief in the night, as she needs to watch over her shoulder more then she like to admit. Falling head over heels for the wrong guy leads Lilly-Ann to a crossroad. She needs to choice between love or her story which she put her heart and soul into. As a secret is revealed just before she made her choice.

Rai, a 17 year old boy, was abandoned by his father, leaving him to take care of his mother and little sister. Life was great for him until one day, when he somehow got framed for murdering his own 2 year - old sister and mother. When he realised he didn't have any reason to live on, he tried to end his life once and for all. But fate decided to give him another chance. He woke up to find himself in an orphanage named Peace Blossoms Orphanage, which took great care of him and loved him dearly. He was happy again...but it wasn't long before his life was turned upside down when he became a serial killer's target. He soon realized that his forgotten past was related to the orphanage and began encountering the dark secrets that lied within.