Atmospheric mysteries, uncanny places, and crimes that refuse ordinary explanations.
Benjamin L. Smith writes mystery, supernatural suspense and uncanny fiction built around grounded characters, unsettling discoveries and places that do not behave quite as they should.
The Shadow Casebooks
The Shadow Casebooks are Supernatural crime, forensic investigation, folklore and genuine supernatural danger.
Follow Detective Constable Greg Lawrence, forensic scientist Emma Colbeck and historian Professor Marcus Tremane through cases where murder, buried history and the uncanny collide.
From The House of Cain through The Huntsman’s Due, each investigation has its own mystery and threat, while the characters, consequences and darker world around them continue to develop across the series.
The Hollingwick Mysteries
The Hollingwick Mysteries is a warm supernatural mystery series set in a historic coastal town where old secrets have a habit of resurfacing.
Sheriff Clara Holt investigates strange deaths, buried histories and impossible events alongside Elias Wren — a murdered gentleman from nearly two centuries ago whom only she can see.
Blending small-town mystery, dry humour, historical intrigue and a slow-burn relationship complicated by the fact that Clara is alive and Elias is not, each novella tells a complete case while the town — and their connection — continues to deepen.
The Other Places
The Other Places are standalone atmospheric mysteries for readers who like strange places, unexplained events and ordinary people forced to confront something that does not quite obey the rules they expect.
Each novel tells a complete story with new characters, a new location and a new mystery. There is no required reading order — only the recurring possibility that the rational explanation may be correct without being complete.
Free Stories
Discover the wider catalogue through a growing collection of free short fiction.
Some stories lead into The Shadow Casebooks. Others connect to The Other Places. Each can be read on its own and offers a shorter journey into the mysteries, strange places and supernatural edges that run through Benjamin L. Smith’s fiction.
Choose from stories including The Wrong Kind of Sense, Beneath Saint Mere, Special Working, The False Track, The Names of the Dead, The Man Who Came Home, The Pictures Were Wrong and Before the Lines Were Thrown.
About the Author
Benjamin L. Smith writes fiction for readers who like investigation, atmosphere, strong characters and the possibility that the world is stranger than it first appears.