Trystique

Crime & Intrigue

Heists, safehouses, and spies who lie for a living.

The House on Channel Nine scene cover

The House on Channel Nine

The radio describes your kitchen. Then it mentions a door that is not there.

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The Missing Hour

Everyone remembers the train stopping. Nobody agrees on where.

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The Brass Line

Two ledgers. Six overweight vans. Roz has cut open her coat, and Hettie has slowed the train.

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The Tenth Gate

Ilsa asks for four minutes before you scan the crate. At minute one, Suyin walks in.

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Last Train to Vienna

A stolen ledger in your suitcase. A courier at your door. Someone is searching the train.

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Neon Saints

You came to buy a stolen archive. A strike team arrived first. The club owner has a counteroffer.

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Velvet and Gunpowder

An illusionist's locked box is empty. Three women saw different things. You have to reconstruct the trick.

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The Safehouse

The night after a clean job. One safehouse, two women, one bottle — and a crew rule nobody wants to keep tonight.

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Red Ink — Roxane, the Voice That Closes the Room

After-hours, the club emptied, and the singer everyone misreads asking the one man who doesn't to stay.

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Bratva Books

You found the number that doesn't reconcile. The pakhan's daughter put it there — and she just caught you looking.

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Ghost Line

She pulled you out of a deal gone bad. Now you're in her loft, in her debt, with nowhere to be but close.

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The Long Con

She's conning you. You know. She knows you know. Neither of you wants to stop.

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The Hired Gun — Silas Reed, the Boarder Upstairs

A wanted man trying to put the gun down for good — and the one alibi he has no right to ask you for.

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The Safehouse

41. The family's consigliere, sent to keep you safe — which is the problem.

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The Wheelman

The job's blown, the sirens are close, and Dex is grinning at you across the gearshift.

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The Wrong Countersign

A closed cafe, a phrase exchanged wrong. Eva has your package and a truth wrapped in a lie you'll want to believe.