mystery novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “mystery”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• My Parents Begged for My Execution on Live TV
  

  Everyone Nina loves turns on her the moment she swallows a handmade ravioli, and she cannot see what they see. By the time her own parents beg for her execution on live TV, she has found out what she has been eating for them.

  contemporary · female lead · revenge

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Tideflats King Claimed the Surveyor Who Trusts No One, and My Signature Was His Brother's Alibi
  

  A marine-loss surveyor who trusts nobody is claimed by the harbor king whose brother burned for a fire she signed off as clean; the man she fears is the only one hunting the truth, and the man she trusts is the arsonist.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• The Man Stalking Me Said Stop Working Alone, and the Kind Vet Was the One Who Let My Tire Down
  

  Maija Kallio, a night plow dispatcher in Duluth, reports the man who stands in her lot to the sheriff, and learns he is guarding her from the kind vet who fills his thermos at her desk.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• My Husband's First Wife Died a Saint, Then I Found Her Key
  

  Edie Sandoval married a widower in a hospital corridor and moved into a Savannah house that keeps his first wife's chair pulled out at every dinner. The first night, she finds the saint's key and a card that says run, and the saint, it turns out, never died.

  contemporary · female lead · forced proximity

  24 chapters published

• I Nannied for a Widower Who Plays a Voicemail Meant for Me
  

  On her first night as a nanny in Portland, Maine, Bridie Ellery hears the widower's dead wife asking someone to call her back, and the number she says is Bridie's old one.

  contemporary · forbidden love · single parent

  24 chapters published

• My Groom Never Showed, So I Cursed Him for Eleven Months
  

  Her groom never came to their wedding, and the best man told the church he had stolen a mob boss's money and run. She cursed him by name for eleven months while she cooked in that boss's kitchen, until his men dug up the best man's car.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• Monsters Got Blamed for Murder, So I Relived the Victim's Last Hour
  

  Eight years after monsters began pouring through hairline Cracks in Chicago's sidewalks, a Cook County deputy medical examiner whose skill lets her relive a dead person's final hour sees a human hand behind a 'monster attack', and writes HOMICIDE over the federal order that every Crack death be cremated unexamined.

  medical · contemporary · thriller

  32 chapters published

• The Enforcer Hunting My Pen Name Reads Every Chapter
  

  The Sword Saint of the Nine Bells Sect cannot testify against the Sect Master, so for twelve years he has told the truth as a banned storybook. The new Chief Enforcer is ordered to find the author. He knew by the third week, and he has not missed a chapter. 钓系清冷受 x 偏执忠犬攻 · 年上 · 双洁 · 1v1 · 先敌后爱 · 受视角为主 · HE.

  male lead · age gap · fantasy romance

  24 chapters published

• They Buried My Mother Quietly, So I Married the Son She Saved
  

  Megan came to a billionaire's house as the hired nurse to learn how her mother died. When she saved the heir's life on the gravel drive, he insisted on marrying her, and she said yes, because his badge opened the sealed wing where her mother's secret was.

  medical · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• My Husband Is Dead Or Is He?
  

  The night before her husband finally comes home after three years, he calls to say he can't make it. The next morning his mother arrives with a walnut box and a death certificate.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• A Grave Beneath the Floorboards
  

  Macy's best friend always swore that if she ever stopped eating spicy food, Macy should call the cops. Tonight the woman across the table spits out one wing, and Macy knows she is not her friend.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Dead Girl's Wheel of Wish
  

  A week after the campus beauty jumped from a roof, a wheel of wishes appears on the school forum and every spin comes true. Jo is the only one who refuses to spin, and the whole school calls her a murderer for it.

  contemporary · female lead · dark

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Whole Town Forgot My Sister Overnight, So I Made Them Look at Her
  

  The night of her engagement party, Callie Coker sits alone for her future mother-in-law's antique camera and vanishes from her sister's couch at midnight. By morning there are three plates on the family table, her room is a sewing room, and her fiancé is engaged to someone else. Only Haley remembers, because Callie pulled her hand into the picture.

  contemporary · female lead · horror

  24 chapters published

• I Joined a Fake Death Game for My Son's Surgery, and the First Rule Killed a Man
  

  Everyone in America thinks the deaths on Last One Home are stunts. Jo Petrillo signed up for her nine-year-old's heart surgery, watched the first rule kill a man four minutes in, and realized the sealed house was the shuttered casino where she once deleted a tape.

  survival · thriller · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Rule One Said I Was the Only Person Awake After Midnight, but My Mother Never Sleeps
  

  A broke caregiver takes the night desk at an old lake hotel in the off-season, where a laminated card says that after midnight she is the only person awake. Her mother has dementia and wanders every night, and on the first night a man knocks on the glass while he is also asleep upstairs.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Inflated Ego
  

  A model torn apart on stage by the most powerful agent in New York plans to ruin him through his granddaughter, until a murder in the agency puts them both in the same alibi.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

• The Heiress and Her Bodyguard
  

  Linnea Haugland is blind, and her father dies in her arms saying her new bodyguard's name. She keeps the man she can't see and doesn't trust.

  bodyguard-romance · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• My Duplicated Husband
  

  After three years of abuse, Lydia kills her husband on their anniversary and buries him in the garden. The next morning he is back at the stove, gentle, and making pancakes.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Poisoned by His Love
  

  Nurse Ivy Pendry is forced to marry a feared mafia boss in her half-sister's place, sure he poisoned his first wife. He owns her bed and her father's debt, and she keeps wanting him anyway.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Priest Kept a Ghost in His Gourd and Let Him Out Every Night
  

  A broke wandering priest carries a fierce ghost cultivator sealed in his gourd and lets him out each night to hunt worse things; when they reach the ferry where the ghost once killed three hundred people, the dead things they hunt start to look like him.

  dramatic · redemption arc · male lead

  24 chapters published

• The Constable Booked the Assassin Every Night
  

  A Six Doors constable hunting the masked assassin known as the Crow keeps booking the Plum Lantern's pipa player for the night, because it is the only place he can sleep. The pipa player is the Crow, and he is booking the constable right back.

  male lead · forced proximity · revenge

  24 chapters published

• Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective
  

  The staff call the CEO's new contract wife the furniture, until a body turns up at the company gala and she names the killer before the police finish taking statements. Oona is a former homicide detective who married Rowan Garvey to get inside his company, because her partner's death leads to someone on his board, and maybe to Rowan himself.

  contemporary · female lead · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

• My Fated Mate Was a Lie, Now the Alpha King Wants the Truth
  

  Idony restores the seals that bind other people's destinies, until her fiance rejects her before the court and she recognizes his new fated match's seal as a forgery. The Alpha King, whose own mating mark is killing him, offers her protection if she can find the queen he was promised.

  female lead · redemption arc · manhwa romance

  24 chapters published

• Owen Betrays My Trust on Opening Night
  

  On opening night at the Sterling Theater, Romy discovers that Owen has secretly given the System's heart-rate alerts to the very people who still want to control her life, forcing her to decide whether to expose his betrayal or keep working with the firefighter she loves.

  dramatic · single parent · showbiz

  3 chapters published

• Rejected at the Altar, Married to the Mafia Alpha
  

  Her mate rejected her as wolfless before both packs. She married his rival on conditions of her own, then found the forged blood oath that could save her refuge.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

• The Night Before We Got Married
  

  The night before our wedding, the ring he gave me showed his heart racing in another woman's arms. She's the one who burned me. So I took the System's offer to die in thirty days, and I'm spending every one of them proving it.

  dramatic · contemporary · single parent

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Drunk Wolf
  

  At my Choosing feast the clans made the wolfless cellarman howl for them, so I tied my cord on his wrist instead of a prince's. Then he turned into the one wolf the law says must die.

  dramatic · female lead · redemption arc

  32 chapters published

• Mafia Heir Turns Me Gay
  

  The Don collapsed over a drink, and his fiancée told the whole Family he made it. The heir dragged him into his office to make him confess, and walked him out as his.

  contemporary · dark romance · fake relationship

  32 chapters published

• Bound to the Mob Alpha's Baby
  

  The doctor said Mickey was six weeks pregnant with a pureblood Alpha's child, then the Alpha's uncle walked in with forty thousand dollars and a syringe. Mickey locked them in the exam room, and the stranger from the rooftop carried him out of the lobby before the uncle told him whose son Mickey was.

  contemporary · dark romance · redemption arc

  32 chapters published

• Alpha Hayley's Destined Mate
  

  Someone cut my brakes, my cousin challenged me for my seat, and then the man I blame for my father's death walked into my pit and told me the scars on my back were his.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  32 chapters published