Some story ideas:
At a seance, 7 people join hands around a table. The lights dim to black and for several minutes the table knocks and tilts, there are ghostly moaning sounds, glowing shadowy faces appear in midair and the medium channels messages from the spirit world.
When the lights return, one of the 7 is dead. One of the remaining 6 is a murderer. How did they do it?
A man has been held prisoner at a remote military installation for some months. He is being interrogated to discover why he suddenly defected to the enemy - though it is unclear whether it's his side or the other which is interrogating him.
During one session, he realises something.
"Everyone knows that everyone breaks. It's what you do - you break people. And everyone knows you do it well. So why haven't you broken me? I'm hungry but not starving. I'm cold but not freezing. You've been threatening me and disorienting me for months, but I haven't broken. Why not?
You're not even trying to break me are you? What's really going on? What do you really want?"
In a paranoid society where everyone is under surveillance, there is a resistance group. Finding they can't mount any real operations, they resist by pretending to be part of a much larger resistance, playacting cloak-and-dagger secrecy for the hidden cameras and infiltrators, and hinting that prominent government members are resistance members.
In this way, they try to make the oppressors turn on each other.
A series of people disappear, each leaving an apparent suicide note. For most of them, someone reports seeing them briefly several days after their disappearance. Some of those who claim to see then subsequently disappear, leaving notes. Some (and by implication, maybe all) of the sightings turn out to be fabrications.
It starts to look as though a group have produced a cloud of disappearances, hiding one or more murders. A tactic which enables several people to commit murder and disappear to a new life. But which sightings are genuine, and which disappearances are murders?
A corrupt senior police detective habitually plants evidence to get convictions. A new young detective decides the only way to get rid of the corrupt one is...to adopt his methods. Selecting a recent unsolved murder, he plants clues which lead his colleagues to their superior, but when they start to suspect the evidence is planted, he has to outwit them, forensics and the senior detective himself in making the older man appear guilty.
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All good ideas, but all very dark ... which is not necessarily a bad thing, just bear in mind light and fluffy plots work too!
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