by storyofdetectives | Jun 30, 2025 | Suspenseful
Chapter One: Arrival in HollowbrookRain sheeted across the cracked tarmac as the Verrowind Serious Crimes Unit’s mobile lab van rolled into Hollowbrook, wipers thumping like a weary pulse. The town’s commuter rail station, a boxy structure of new brick and ancient...
by storyofdetectives | Jun 28, 2025 | Suspenseful
Chapter 1: Arrival in SaltmereSaltmere greeted the Serious Crimes Unit with fog and the tang of brine. As their evidence van rumbled off the Coastal Route C2, Mira Lorne, lead investigator, pressed a hand to the window. All she could see were the huddled shacks lining...
by storyofdetectives | May 11, 2025 | Suspenseful
Chapter 1: The Ashen CallThe morning fog clung to the new shoots of green trying to pierce Ashburrow’s charred loam. Even after all these years, the burnt tang of old wildfires still lingered in the township’s breath, seeping through the half-shuttered windows of the...
by storyofdetectives | May 7, 2025 | Suspenseful
Chapter 1: The Light Above, the Shadow BelowSilverbarrow had always taken pride in its brightness. From the honey-toned façades that caught the mountain sun just so, to the vibrant laughter that spilled from its market square, the town wore its optimism like a...
by storyofdetectives | Apr 26, 2025 | Suspenseful
Chapter 1: Arrival in the FogThe mobile lab van rumbled along the moss-choked main road, swallowed by the perpetual fog that blanketed Gallows Reach. Every structure seemed to hunch against the damp—a drab skeleton of a forgotten town, its windows glimmering with...
by storyofdetectives | Apr 24, 2025 | Suspenseful
Chapter 1: The Call to DriftwoodThe sun barely pierced the thick fog enveloping Driftwood Cove as Mira Lorne, lead investigator of the Serious Crimes Unit, sat in the passenger seat of the mobile operations van, gazing out at the rugged countryside. The radio crackled...
