Cozy Mystery, Gothic, Fantasy, Romance & Horror
Quiet, haunting and emotional stories filled with coastal secrets, strange old places, bookshop magic, haunted objects, glass houses, winter romance, submerged libraries, abandoned mines, dark retellings, gentle fantasy, teen horror fantasy, cozy science fiction, and mysteries that linger after the final page.
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Available Books
Instant digital downloads, grouped by series and genre so you can easily choose where to begin.
Blackwater Quay Mysteries
Hexes & Hardcovers
A cozy magical mystery about a bookshop owner who reads emotions in ink, a judgemental cat, forged records, and a two-hundred-year-old harbour mystery.
Margins & Malice
A cozy magical mystery about stolen journal pages, weaponised ink, forced emotions, and a town tearing itself apart as Elowen searches for the real author.
Folios & Felonies
A bookshop cozy mystery about a hidden folio, a dead historian’s final research, a stolen inheritance, and a century-old secret sealed in ink.
The Good Intent
A Manual for Accidental Gardens
A cozy science fiction story set aboard The Good Intent, where accidental gardens, strange ship systems, and small acts of care begin to change everything.
The Walls That Answer Back
A cozy science fiction sequel about a generation ship where the walls begin responding, old systems stir, and the quiet life aboard The Good Intent becomes stranger than expected.
The Lost Property Office at the End of the Ship
A warm generation-ship mystery about forgotten objects, missing histories, and a lost property office that may understand the people aboard better than they understand themselves.
The Kitchen That Fed The Wrong People
A light-hearted cozy science fiction mystery about a shipboard kitchen, unexpected meals, mistaken deliveries, and The Good Intent’s habit of helping the wrong people at exactly the right time.
Amethyst Eyes & Velvet Paws
Amethyst Eyes & Velvet Paws: A Teen Vampire Cat Fantasy
A gentle horror fantasy for teens about vampire mystery, loyal cat magic, soft shadows, hidden danger, and a strange darkness with a heart-led pull.
Amethyst Eyes & Velvet Paws: Two Shadows, One Hearth
A gentle horror fantasy for teens about two shadows, one place of safety, protective animal magic, and the uneasy secrets waiting beyond the hearth.
Amethyst Eyes & Velvet Paws: The Heart of the Gloom
A gentle horror fantasy for teens about creeping gloom, loyal paws, brave hearts, and the strange magic that waits where darkness gathers.
Gothic Mysteries
The Sea Glass Girls
A coastal gothic mystery about memory, friendship, family secrets, and the things the sea gives back.
The Antique Mourning Shop
A dark Victorian mystery about grief, strange keepsakes, hidden histories, and a shop that remembers too much.
The Night Gardener of St. Edda
A quiet gothic story of old walls, hidden gardens, night work, and secrets growing where no one looks.
The Arch in the Mountain
An atmospheric mystery about ancient stone, hidden paths, buried truth, and a discovery that should not exist.
Psychological & Supernatural Thrillers
Return Policy
A haunted object psychological thriller about a vintage shop owner whose past begins returning through impossible parcels, old listings, childhood objects, and memories she thought had been destroyed.
The House That Looked Back
A supernatural glass house thriller about a remote modern house, a dead woman, five people hiding the truth, and reflections that begin to reveal what really happened.
Romance & Contemporary Fiction
The Winter Light
A coastal romance dance novel about a former dancer returning to a Northumberland village to save an old hall, rebuild a dance school, and face the man she left behind.
Fantasy Mysteries & Horror Novellas
The Archivist of the Abyss
An underwater fantasy mystery about a quiet octopus archivist, erased records, submerged libraries, and a forbidden map hidden beneath his own skin.
The Flower That Reached the Moon
A gentle fantasy mystery about impossible growth, moonlit secrets, quiet wonder, and a discovery that reaches far beyond the garden.
Bad Air
A claustrophobic underground horror novella about a solo mineral collector, a Welsh mine, failing light, and something impossible waiting in the dark.
Oz Protocol Books
The Gray Mass
A dark science fantasy Oz retelling about corrupted wonder, strange machinery, altered worlds, and a familiar road turning into something far more dangerous.
The Archived Lands
A dark fantasy Oz sequel about buried records, broken magic, dangerous memory, and a strange land where the past refuses to stay sealed.
More Books on Amazon
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A science fiction story by Simon Rudd, available on Amazon Kindle.
Not sure where to start?
Each book has a different flavour, from cozy magical mystery and coastal gothic to supernatural thriller, psychological suspense, winter romance, gentle fantasy, dark retellings, underwater fantasy, teen horror fantasy, cozy science fiction, and claustrophobic horror.
Blackwater Quay Mysteries
Start with Hexes & Hardcovers, continue with Margins & Malice, then read Folios & Felonies for cozy bookshop magic, emotional ink, hidden documents, harbour secrets, and magical crime-solving.
The Good Intent
Start with A Manual for Accidental Gardens, then continue through The Walls That Answer Back, The Lost Property Office at the End of the Ship, and The Kitchen That Fed The Wrong People for cozy generation-ship mysteries, found family warmth, odd systems, and gentle sci-fi humour.
Amethyst Eyes & Velvet Paws
Start with A Teen Vampire Cat Fantasy, then continue with Two Shadows, One Hearth and The Heart of the Gloom for gentle horror fantasy for teens, loyal cat magic, soft shadows, and darker mysteries with heart.
Coastal Secrets
Start with The Sea Glass Girls for a seaside mystery with family secrets and a haunting coastal pull.
Victorian Unease
Start with The Antique Mourning Shop for grief, memory, strange objects, and a shop that keeps more than it sells.
Haunted Objects
Start with Return Policy for haunted-object psychological suspense, or The House That Looked Back for a supernatural glass house thriller about guilt, reflections, and buried truth.
Winter Romance
Start with The Winter Light for a coastal second-chance romance about dance, community, old love, and beginning again.
Old Gardens
Start with The Night Gardener of St. Edda for quiet gothic atmosphere, hidden paths, and slow-burning mystery.
Ancient Places
Start with The Arch in the Mountain for buried history, unsettling discoveries, and a doorway into the unknown.
Gentle Fantasy
Start with The Flower That Reached the Moon for a softer magical mystery filled with quiet wonder, impossible growth, and moonlit secrets.
Dark Oz Retellings
Start with The Gray Mass, then continue with The Archived Lands for dark science fantasy, corrupted wonder, and a stranger version of Oz.
Underwater Archives
Start with The Archivist of the Abyss for submerged libraries, erased histories, and a quiet octopus archivist uncovering forbidden truth.
Underground Horror
Start with Bad Air for a tense abandoned-mine novella with claustrophobic dread, bad air, and something waiting in the dark.
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About Simon Rudd
Simon Rudd is an artist and writer based in Portsmouth, UK. His stories often explore strange places, old secrets, atmospheric landscapes, submerged worlds, underground spaces, coastal villages, and the emotional pull of memory, mystery, fear, magic, love, and the sea.
Alongside his books, Simon creates original artwork and prints through PaintingsBySimon.
