Atmospheric Mystery

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient...

She was trained to find patterns in history. She never expected to find a deadly one hiding in plain sight. London, 1940. The Blitz has turned the city into a nightly nightmare of fire and destruction. Dr. Evelyn Landon, a historian recruited by the Ministry of Information, spends her days reading civilian diaries, cataloging the fears, hopes, and small rebellions of ordinary Londoners under siege. It's quiet work. Safe work. Until she notices something impossible. "Such a shame the roses are wilting early this year." Roses don't wilt in November. They freeze. And that single wrong detail ...

Exiled from Glasgow for exposing corruption, DI Sarah Lynch was sent to Fort William as punishment. The remote Scottish Highlands were meant to end her career. Instead, they became her purpose. From dark lochs to frozen peaks, from burning moorland to ancient forests, DI Sarah Lynch investigates murders that the powerful want buried. Each case transforms her—from bitter outsider to Highland protector, from exile to home. This complete six-book series includes over 180,000 words of atmospheric British crime fiction: 📖 THE DARK LOCH - A body in the water exposes illegal poaching and ...

She can't leave the dying mall until she learns what happened to her sister. The truth is waiting in the darkness. My sister Audrie disappeared from Nightfall Commons Mall fifteen years ago. She was eight years old. She vanished from the play area while I was supposed to be watching her. The police gave up. My parents gave up. Everyone moved on. Everyone except me. Now I work in that same dying mall, walking the empty corridors every night, searching for answers in a building that's barely alive. I can't leave. Can't stop looking. Can't let go of the guilt that's been eating me alive since ...

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The House on Thornhallow Moor (Book One of the Between Heartbeats Series) On the wind-swept cliffs overlooking Blackwater Hollow stands Thornhallow Moor—a house bound by secrets older than the sea. When Clara Wren returns to the neglected Victorian estate of her childhood, she expects memories, perhaps even closure. But the house has waited patiently for her arrival, harboring more than just dust and echoes of the past. Whispers drift through empty rooms, footprints glisten with seawater, and in the shadows stands Silas Vale—a ship’s captain lost to a storm over a century ago. Bound ...

Regarded as a witch by the locals, Lydia bears silent testimony to her Appalachian town’s dark underside. The townspeople might believe the bad luck began when a night of teenage partying led to the preacher’s son falling to his death. But Lydia knows Peculiar’s troubles started when a local child never made it home from school, when an arsonist set the mountains ablaze, and when her own daughter seemingly vanished. The past can’t remain buried forever and now, from the swarming of the bees to the change in the auras she sees, Lydia knows the killer’s hold over the townspeople has...

“Haunting, fast-paced, and unforgettable.” — Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Guilty Here “A lush, moody mystery. Darkrooms is gripping and atmospheric, as two women wrestle with guilt and injustice.” — Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author...

An international bestselling author crafts a “compelling thriller with excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) in which a young widow inherits a mysterious Tuscan estate and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy—twisty and...

“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book....Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime). Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the...

In 18th-century England, a widowed confectioner is drawn into a web of love, betrayal, and intrigue and a battle of wits in this masterful historical novel from the author of the “delicious puzzle-box of a novel” (The New York Times) and USA TODAY bestseller The Square of Sevens. Following...

Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke’s iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman—pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou. When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux’s property, he...

“The perfect thriller to read with your toes in the sand while looking over your shoulder.” —The View Don’t miss the instant New York Times bestseller from Megan Miranda, where a mother’s secrets, campus mysteries, and long-hidden truths ignite a haunting legacy. Beckett Bowery never...

From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, “wisecracking and wonderful” crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family—or murder—wrecks everything. Dahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of...

Journey to the plains of Central Australia in The Pearl Sister, the fourth book in the number one bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. A spellbinding story of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation. CeCe D’Aplièse has never felt she fitted in...

Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter’s death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America’s deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion—and find closure. When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter’s literary hero.

Some things don’t need to be shouted…They just need to be spoken aloud. When the ancient bell of St. Aelred’s Church tolls at midnight for the first time in over a hundred years, the sleepy Cotswold village of Hazelmead wakes to horror—local historian Arthur Penrose lies dead beneath the tower. Innkeeper and amateur sleuth Emma Sharpe only came to help plan the Harvest Tea and Festival, but the mystery pulls her deep into Hazelmead’s shadowed past—a vanished priest, wartime thefts, and a secret sealed behind stone. With her clever terrier Cooper, and the ever-gruff but charming ...

Some secrets were meant to be buried. She's about to dig them up. Dr. Layla Al-Qahtani has spent her career decoding the silent stones of Arabia's ancient past. But nothing has prepared her for what awaits in the unmarked tomb at Site K7. A name. Shalamtu. A title that translates to impossible power. And evidence of deliberate, systematic erasure spanning two thousand years. As Layla investigates, she uncovers: An inscription describing a female religious leader wielding authority that contradicts everything historians believe about ancient Arabia Connections to suppressed French geological...

Are you a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz? If you're looking for something fresh and new, join the millions of readers who have already delved into the heart-pounding World's Scariest Legends. "Those who enjoy Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and other masters of supernatural suspense will relish The Dancing Plague's ability to move through time, relationships, and intrigue to question the roots of mass hysteria and paranormal experiences." —Midwest Book Review What would you get if you smashed together Stephen King's coming-of-age tale The Body (aka Stand by Me) with Richard Laymon's The ...

A chilling collection of Ray Bradbury short stories, The October Country combines dark fantasy, classic horror stories, imaginative tales, and gripping mystery and suspense, offering an unforgettable exploration of the human soul's darkest corners. “That country where it is always turning late...