classic crime fiction novels

Crime Prison Island

After the nuclear war, the world was controlled by twenty mega-corporations that established a global government. Governed by AI, it judged everything. Gao Xin, who had only wished to live a peaceful life, inexplicably became a scapegoat for the elite and, unable to pay the imprisonment fee, was sentenced to ten years of exile on Crime Prison Island! On this island, there were no laws, no constraints, the only order being the numerous game arenas set up by the officials. The criminals could only participate like racehorses for the entertainment of the elite. Yet, on this prison island filled with Radiation, cyborgs, and many powerful villains, Gao Xin had no strength, no talent, and no background—like a sheep thrown into a crocodile pool, no different from being on death row. How could an ordinary person like him survive under the oppression of the strong, the geniuses, and the wicked? Unless in this world, there was a path, a path that allowed even the weakest to continuously break their shackles.

Demonic Blue Moon · Urban

Gene Fusion System: Crime Hunter

Luo Fei is a rookie police officer but has a system that can empower him with different abilities of animals including dogs' sense of smell through gene fusion. When helping a lady to find her cat, he smells a stench from the neighboring apartment's balcony. It smells like... the stench of a rotting corpse!

Murderer Li Si · Horror

Hayle Coven Novels

I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn. ***WORLD'S BEST STORY2014*** Her mom's a witch. Her dad's a demon. And she just wants to be ordinary. I batted at the curl of smoke drifting off the tip of my candle and tried not to sneeze. My heavy velvet cloak fell in oppressive, suffocating folds in the closed space of the ceremony chamber, the cowl trapping the annoying bits of puff I missed. I hated the way my eyes burned and teared, an almost constant distraction. Not that I didn't welcome the distraction, to be honest. Anything to take my mind from what went on around me. Being part of a demon raising is way less exciting than it sounds. Sydlynn Hayle's teen life couldn't be more complicated. Trying to please her coven is all a fantasy while the adventure of starting over in a new town and fending off a bully cheerleader who hates her are just the beginning of her troubles. What to do when delicious football hero Brad Peters--boyfriend of her cheer nemesis--shows interest? If only the darkly yummy witch, Quaid Moromond, didn't make it so difficult for her to focus on fitting in with the normal kids despite her paranormal, witchcraft laced home life. Add to that her crazy grandmother's constant escapes driving her family to the brink and Syd's between a rock and a coven site. Forced to take on power she doesn't want to protect a coven who blames her for everything, only she can save her family's magic. If her family's distrust doesn't destroy her first.

Patti Larsen · Urban

The Dark Novels

In a world where the chosen one has defeated the demon lord and brought peace to the realm, now 500 years have passed since the demon's defeat. Aetheria, the world, appears peaceful, but is it truly so?

Q_Tip · Fantasy

I Rewrite the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the Starry Skies

Xia Chujian, a native of the Beichen galaxy, has always thought of herself as ordinary and unremarkable. But, the youngest Marshal of the Beichen Empire, Huo Yushen, doesn't think so. Because he has never seen anyone who could look directly at the indescribable beings in the depths of the starry sky without collapsing and going crazy. Only she is the exception. Xia Chujian is puzzled: ...What's wrong with looking at it? "Can't people look at something ugly?" The heartbroken crowd: ...I'm tired, let's just destroy everything!

geriatricvibes · Sci-fi

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Paranoid school bully, he just wants to spoil me

Lu Tang was the daughter of Fengshi Group, but unfortunately, she was not favored. When he was 15 years old, he was brought back to the school. After that, he transferred to No.1 Middle School. Deer Candy used to be ignorant and incompetent Now that she was in a new school, she decided to turn over a new leaf and become a sweet little cutie in No.1 Middle School. Hence, she had Qin Ci head over heels for her. - One day, Lu Tang's former brothers came to Jiang City to see her. On the way, they quarreled with a group of people. They all went to Deer Candy to complain and ask her to back them up. Deer Candy didn't think it was good to fight, but she still agreed. After all, she had to do everything for her brother. At their place When Lu Tang heard her brother's harsh words, she felt that he was a fool. She went forward to stop him, and then she saw Qin Ci's gloomy face. Oh my, her disguise was broken just like that? A certain man: Didn't you tell me that you're soft and easy to push down? So this is how you push me down - In Qin Ci's heart, Lu Tang was soft, cute, and easy to push down. However, who would have thought that she was actually a tyrant flower? Her heart was extremely black. Little cutie in front of people, female Rakshasa behind people Master Qin: I wonder when my Ba Wang Hua will marry me Later, when they met again, Lu Tang was already a public idol, and Qin Ci was a rising star in business, the president of Deca. De-deer Ca-candy-sugar So, candy, I've come my whole life just for you They finally met again, putting an end to the unsettling feelings of this youth. Deer candy was the sweetest candy Qin Ci had ever eaten. (Special reminder: The male protagonist sometimes goes 'intermittently insane')

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[Cultivation: My talent can be synthesized]

After transmigrating to the chaotic world of immortal martial arts, as the lowest level of society, Wang Yun thought that he would spend his life in a muddle. Until one day, he discovered that he had a golden finger. As long as he focused on one thing, he could pick up related terms and synthesize various talents. [Bodhi Wisdom Fruit]+[Six-Foot Golden Body]+[Thirty-Two Forms]=[Vairocana] [Innate Dao Body]+[Three Flowers Gathering at the Top]+[Five Qi Facing the Origin]=[One Qi Three Pure] [Flesh Derivation]+[Myriad Changes]+[Vacuum Crush]=[Force Breaking All Laws] …… Let's see how Wang Yun gradually grew from a civilian who dredged the river to a grand cultivator who mastered divine powers.

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Just as they became parents, the apocalypse arrived. The husband and wife brought their children to the apocalypse for six years and found the space necklace, but they still couldn't escape. After opening his eyes, he returned to the pre-apocalyptic world. The space could actually be planted, and his mental ability had appeared in advance and even mutated. The couple didn't have any big ambitions. They just wanted to peacefully and low-key farm and raise fish in the apocalypse, raising the little bun until he was fair and fat. "Yes, we believe that you guys are very low-key."→_→ (Team members)

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Pirate's Refreshing Crystal

When Ke Er was playing Mobile Legends, he had just started a Golden Ranked game when he inexplicably came to One Piece's world. Moreover, he had even dressed up here, so don't expect to have a D in his name. He couldn't be a strong second generation, nor could he be an official second generation. In One Piece's world, there were still countless powerhouses. Ke Er suspected that he might not survive past three episodes. Fortunately, the Refreshing Crystal that he had bought while playing the game had fused with his soul and transmigrated with him. In order to survive in this world, Ke Er could only work hard in cultivation. As long as he didn't die from training, he would train to his death.

A cup of original soy milk

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