Your idea, your mystery, and your name on the cover.

Create your own mystery novel with the AI author studio used to write these six published books.

Choose the story you want to tell. CaseBound helps you build the suspects, secrets and clues then outline and draft the chapters with you.

Historical mysteries. Classic cozies. A case only your detective can solve.

You make the creative decisions. CaseBound gives you a process to follow.

Choose your CaseBound edition — start at $27

Author $27 · Pro Author $97 · Master Author $197
One-time purchase · Complete novel engine in every edition · 30-day money-back guarantee

Works with your own Claude account. Claude’s usage limits and any separate subscription costs apply.

Dear future mystery author,

There is a special kind of excitement in seeing your name on a book cover.

Not a document you keep meaning to finish.

A book. With a title. Characters. Chapters. An ending.

Something you can hold up and say…

“I created this.”

Perhaps you already have an idea.

A quiet village with a dangerous secret. A Victorian street where somebody knows more than they admit. An amateur sleuth who notices what everybody else misses.

Or perhaps you simply love mysteries and would like to create one of your own.

Either way, you do not need to arrive with the whole plot worked out.

CaseBound helps you turn that starting point into a case, an outline and a complete first-draft manuscript you can edit and prepare for publication.

And before I tell you about the tools, let me show you the books.

I used CaseBound to create this mystery. Now you can read it on Amazon.

A Murder in Tanner’s Lane was published on 23 September 2026.

I used CaseBound to develop and write it.

You can see the cover. You can visit the listing. And you can read the first three chapters before you decide whether to buy the system behind it.

Read the first three chapters free on Amazon.

Look at how the story opens. Meet the characters. Get a feel for the setting and the writing.

Then picture the mystery you would like to create.

Read a sample of this Victorian mystery novel right here.

(Bermondsey, September 1889. Two days after the apothecary is found dead behind a bolted door.)

He did not note that he had come south on a Saturday he had been told to spend on his own time, on twenty-six words from a woman he had met once, and that he had not at any point that morning considered not coming.

‘Inspector Dunne. Thank you for coming.’

‘You should know what I am before you thank me. Thirty years in the force, twenty of them a detective, and not here officially in any of it.’ He put his hat on the chair beside him. ‘The inquest opens Tuesday, and on the papers my superintendent is not wrong. I have today.’

‘Then we had better use it.’

‘I’ve read Cawston’s report and the surgeon’s, and you’ll have them plainly from me because you’ll have them wrong from the lane. Blunt trauma to the back of the skull. The near corner of the counter, eighteen inches from where the head lay. The surgeon writes that the injury is consistent with a fall against that corner. He writes consistent with three times, and he does not write caused by at all.’

‘He is careful.’

‘He is careful. Careful men are the reason I have a Saturday.’

Mrs McLellan did not write that down, which he thought was a pity.

From A Murder in Tanner’s Lane, chapter 4, created using CaseBound. This passage is after AI and manual editing.

The book is published. Here is what the reports show.

Writing a book is one milestone.

Seeing orders and pages read is another.

Here are the KDP reports for A Murder in Tanner’s Lane, with the reporting dates visible in the screenshots.

38 copies sold.

Note: These are sales. The books have never been free.

38 ebooks or paperbacks recorded sold in the reporting period shown.

3,104 Kindle pages read.

3,104 Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) recorded in the reporting period shown. Page reads are a separate measure from sales.

$110.59 in estimated royalties.

$110.59 in estimated royalties in USD for the reporting period shown. Estimated royalties are not a bank-payment record.

Those figures are modest. I am showing them because they are the reported results behind a book you can inspect yourself.

A story developed with CaseBound became a published book, with digital and paperback sales, pages read and estimated royalties recorded.

And here are six published books created with CaseBound.

One Victorian mystery. Five cozy mysteries across two series.

Different stories. Different series. The same characters and world in a series, consistently. The same CaseBound process behind them.

144 sales across the six selected books.

144 ebook and paperback sales across the six books selected in the report, for the dates shown.

7,310 page reads across the six selected books.

7,310 Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) recorded in the reporting period shown. Page reads are a separate measure from sales.

$280.02 in combined estimated royalties.

$280.02 in estimated royalties across the six selected books, for the reporting period and currency shown. This combined total includes A Murder in Tanner’s Lane; it is not additional to its $110.59.

These are my results for these books and reporting periods. They are not typical results claims or earnings promises. Your results depend on the books you create, their quality, presentation, audience and promotion.

What I can show you is the output: six books, available for readers, created using the studio you can get today.

Choose your CaseBound edition

You bring the idea. CaseBound helps you make the mystery work.

Let us say your story begins with a body in a locked study.

The victim’s business partner had a motive.

The housekeeper has been lying.

And the nephew says he was somewhere else that evening.

That is a promising beginning.

But who actually committed the crime?

How did they do it? What did they leave behind? Why does the nephew’s alibi matter? And which clue makes the whole story click at the end?

CaseBound helps you establish the hidden truth first. Then it builds the investigation around what your detective discovers.

The reader gets the puzzle.

You get the plan behind it.

That is the heart of CaseBound: build the solution, then build the story that uncovers it.

Multiple phases take you from a starting idea to a complete draft.

1. Choose your story. Select a mystery subgenre. Bring your own premise or explore suggested scenarios. Choose the one that makes you think, “Yes. I want to tell that story.” For a historical mystery, start with a period dossier to help ground your setting.
2. CaseBound builds your case with your oversight. Develop the culprit, motive, timeline, suspects, clues and red herrings. Run the twelve-check Mystery Audit to look for weaknesses before they spread through your chapters. CaseBound then creates your story bible, then the chapter outline, with the investigation mapped out. You can edit these if you want to fine tune your story.
3. Bring it to life. Draft chapters against the case file, bible and outline. Read them. Give feedback. Change what you want to change. Work towards a complete manuscript, then edit and prepare it for publication. Master Author includes additional post-draft tools for that work.

Choose. Build. Draft.

You can see the detailed stages as you work. You do not have to invent the entire process yourself.

Here is what your first session can look like.

You choose a subgenre.

You explore a few possible premises—or enter one you already have.

You pick your favourite and begin developing the case behind it.

Already, you have something concrete to react to.

“Make the detective older.”

“Move the setting to a seaside town.”

“I like that secret, but I want a different motive.”

Make the edits you want to the case. You are making creative decisions and seeing your story take shape.

A mystery needs more than a good first chapter.

It needs an ending the reader believes.

Clues they had a chance to notice.

Suspects who remain plausible.

A timeline that survives a second look.

That is why CaseBound includes its twelve-check Mystery Audit.

It examines the case for issues involving motive, alibis, timing, fair play and whether the solution becomes apparent too early.

It requires at least three credible suspects and repairs the areas that fail its checks.

You still review the result. The audit gives you a structured way to question the plot before investing in the full draft.

See an example CaseBound case file.

You stay in charge of the book.

Want a different detective? Change them.

Already have a scenario? Use it.

Have your own story bible? Upload it.

Dislike a chapter? Ask for a revision, edit it yourself or reject it.

CaseBound carries the approved case, cast, world and outline forward through the process, with rules intended to keep them aligned.

Its naming tools include a banned-surname list you can extend. Its voice controls work through craft choices such as point of view, rhythm and dialogue proportion.

You choose what stays. You decide what changes. You review every stage before the next uses it.

Built by an author. Tested on his own books.

Before CaseBound existed, I had written eighteen novels and shorter fiction under my own name and pen names. I have sold 3800+ books (this does not include free downloads) and have over 1.2 million page reads.

I had also proofread more than eight and a half million words for other authors.

That experience teaches you how easily a story can lose its reader.

A clue appears too late. A suspect stops making sense. A character knows something they could not possibly know.

Before writing full time, I worked as a software developer and business analyst.

CaseBound brings those two backgrounds together: the practical experience of writing fiction and a structured approach to the problems behind a mystery plot.

I built it for my own work first.

The published books on this page show what I have created with it.

What happens after you purchase?

You receive the CaseBound tools included in your chosen edition and use them with your own Claude account.

Your creative work follows the same guided sequence: scenario, case, audit, bible, outline and chapters.

Everything you need to get started is covered in four included startup documents.

Choose the CaseBound edition that fits your next book.

All three editions include the complete novel engine.

You can develop a case, audit it, create a story bible, outline the chapters and draft the manuscript with Author, Pro or Master.

Choose Author for the core experience. Pro expands your creative options. Master adds tools for refining and preparing the manuscript after the draft.

Compare the three editions.

Start with the edition that fits your plans. Upgrade later and pay only the difference at the prices then in force.

Buy once. Return for your next mystery.

CaseBound has no subscription, per-book credit charge or metering of its own.

You use it with your own Claude account. Claude’s usage limits still apply, and a paid Claude plan is a separate expense if you choose one.

Finish one manuscript and you can come back with a different premise, another setting and a new case.

If you want to build a catalogue of mysteries, having a repeatable writing process gives you a place to begin each new book.

The manuscript still needs your editing and publication preparation. Selling it also requires decisions about presentation and reaching readers.

CaseBound gives you a process for creating the books. The choices about publication and promotion remain yours.

Your questions, answered.

Your next mystery can begin with one decision.

You have seen the books.

You have seen the reported units, page reads and estimated royalties.

You can read the opening of a published mystery created with CaseBound.

Now think about your own story.

The setting you would love to explore. The detective you would like to meet. The secret waiting behind the first clue.

You can begin without knowing every chapter.

Choose your edition and start developing the case.

Author — $27: the complete engine for your historical or classic cozy mystery.
Pro Author — $97: ten subgenres, expanded research and custom voice tools.
Master Author — $197: everything in Pro, plus post-draft editing, continuity and paperback interior tools.

Launch prices: 20–25 October 2026. Prices rise afterwards.

One-time purchase. Complete novel engine in every edition. 30-day money-back guarantee.

P.S. Every edition includes the process used to build the case, audit it, outline the story and draft the chapters. Start with the genres you want to write. Add the wider studio when you want more options.

P.P.S. The books on this page began as ideas, too. Read the sample and choose the edition that helps you take the next step with yours.

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