Mystery Thriller Books by Mike Wessels
In Deadly Truth, hard-boiled private investigator Elric Voss is drawn into a dangerous mystery involving a missing man, a powerful family, and a conspiracy built on secrets no one wants exposed. Perfect for readers who love noir atmosphere, sharp tension, and mystery thrillers where truth cuts deeper than lies.
The Price of Silence
An Elric Voss Prequel Short Novel
Before Deadly Truth, private investigator Elric Voss learned the one lesson that would haunt him for the rest of his life: some secrets cost more when they are kept—and others kill when they are told.
In The Price of Silence, Elric is still trying to survive as a struggling private detective when his landlord, a slippery opportunist with a price for everything, points him toward a secretive Price Industries biometric study. What begins as a lead turns into something darker: a hidden experiment, a powerful company, and a truth Elric cannot keep buried.
But Elric has a dangerous flaw. Secrets don’t sit quietly inside him. They press against his skull, crawl under his skin, and demand to be spoken. When one revealed secret leads to blood, Elric is forced to face the terrible cost of his own nature.
Noir, suspenseful, and morally sharp, The Price of Silence reveals the origin of Elric Voss’s burden—and sets the stage for the dangerous world of Deadly Truth.
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Deadly Truth
An Elric Voss Mystery Thriller
Deadly Truth is a hard-boiled mystery thriller featuring private investigator Elric Voss, a man drawn to secrets that other people would kill to keep buried. When he is hired to investigate the disappearance of Daniel Price, heir to the powerful Price Industries, what seems like a missing-person case quickly becomes something far more dangerous.
As Elric follows the trail, he is pulled into a world of family betrayal, corporate corruption, political influence, and criminal power. His search takes him from rain-soaked streets and locked apartments to the smoky glow of a jazz club, where the mysterious Selene Polari may be a clue, a temptation, or a trap.
The deeper Elric digs, the more he uncovers a hidden system tied to Daniel’s disappearance—something powerful enough to shape lives, control outcomes, and put anyone in danger who gets too close to the truth. In a city built on lies, every answer comes with a price.
Dark and suspenseful, Deadly Truth is a noir thriller about buried secrets, dangerous loyalties, and the cost of uncovering the truth.
Midnight Witness
An Elric Voss Mystery Thriller
Midnight Witness is the second Elric Voss mystery thriller — a hard-boiled noir in which a case that begins with a dead man’s voice on a recording tape ends somewhere far darker than Elric ever intended to go.
When a municipal corruption investigation surfaces a witness who died fourteen months ago, Elric Voss takes the case nobody else will touch. The voice is real. The death certificate is real. And the machine running quietly beneath the city’s most powerful offices has been there for decades, waiting for someone to ask the wrong question.
Elric asks it.
What follows pulls him into a world of sealed records, political enforcers, and a reform effort the city’s power structure has already decided to bury. His partner Selene Polari is the sharpest conscience in the room — and the most exposed person to be standing beside Elric when the machine runs out of patience.
Then a young woman named Mara Thorn enters the investigation. She is not what she appears. And before the case is over, neither is Elric.
Atmospheric and morally relentless, Midnight Witness is a noir thriller about the cost of knowing too much, the men who govern cities from underground rooms, and the secrets that outlast everyone who tried to keep them.
