Atmospheric Thriller

She never stopped searching, and the buried secrets led to a disturbing final twist. 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 nights in the same dying mall where she vanished, patrolling empty corridors lit by flickering fluorescents and haunted by unanswered questions. I can’t leave. I can’t stop looking. I can’t outrun the guilt that’s been rotting inside me ...

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...

Five thousand dollars. One night. Pretend to be a stranger's wife. June Marlowe has played a hundred forgettable roles. But when she's hired to impersonate a missing woman at a family gathering in a private hospital wing, she walks into a performance with no script and no way out. As the night spirals, June realizes she wasn't hired to save a marriage. She was hired to bury a secret. And the woman she's pretending to be is still in the building. Because in this family, inconvenient people don't disappear. They get stored.

When perfume becomes poison, and desire becomes deadly... Julia Cavendish possesses the rarest gift in the fragrance world—a nose so perfect it can deconstruct any scent to its molecular truth. But this blessing is also her curse. Trapped in a soul-crushing job creating cheap knockoffs, Julia's hypersensitive gift threatens to drive her toward the same madness that destroyed her legendary perfumer grandmother. One devastating review of Gabriel de La Tour's latest fragrance changes everything. When Julia's brutal honesty costs her everything, she finds herself drawn into a deadly game that...

The Norfolk Salt Marsh Chronicles: Books 1–5 A Gripping British Coastal Mystery Box Set Five atmospheric mysteries. One haunting coastline. Countless secrets buried beneath the tides. Welcome to the wild and windswept salt marshes of Norfolk, where shifting sands conceal old crimes, forgotten histories, and deadly truths waiting to resurface. In this compelling collection, author F.H. Braddock brings together the first five novels in "The Norfolk Salt Marsh Chronicles", a series of richly layered British mysteries steeped in coastal atmosphere, local folklore, and long-buried secrets. ...

A SERIES OF GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED, Set in the USA and Liverpool. Soft Target Soft Target 2 'Tank' Jerusalem 18th Brigade Blister TTF Series Synopsis In the gripping and high-stakes series by international bestselling author Conrad Jones, the Terrorist Task Force (TTF) stands as the last line of defense against a looming threat. As Islamic extremists unleash a series of coordinated attacks across iconic American locations—starting with a shocking assault on Downtown Disney in Las Vegas, followed by chaos in San Francisco and an attack at the Grand Canyon—the nation grapples with fear ...

When Deputy Jimi Jimenez crosses Virginia’s last working swing bridge into the teeth of a brutal nor’easter, he expects a routine wellness check on storm-battered Gwynn’s Island. Instead, his headlights sweep across a scene that shatters the island’s sense of security. From the porch of a rustic fishing cottage, he discovers something that stops him cold: blood splattered across the walls just inside the front door. This is no routine call. For Sheriff Amy Wade, newly elected and already fighting whispers that she is in over her head, this murder is more than a crime—it’s a ...

The house sees everything. And so does he. When architect Lena Marsh and her husband Tom buy Cliffside — a stunning glass house perched on the Cornish cliffs — it feels like a dream come true. Designed by the brilliant Julian Voss, who tragically fell to his death six months ago, the house is a masterpiece of light, space, and glass. The auction price was suspiciously low. But Lena doesn’t ask questions. She’s too busy falling in love with the views. Then she finds the cameras. Hidden in the walls, embedded in the mirrors, wired into every room. Julian wasn’t just an architect —...

What if the Vatican’s best exorcist wasn’t even... alive? From the bestselling author of The Paranormalist series comes a terrifying new vision of demonic possession and supernatural horror. Exorcists are dying—murdered mid-ritual, their bodies desecrated. Something is killing the Church’s holy warriors, one by one. To stop it, the Vatican unleashes Michael, a new breed of exorcist immune to possession, forged for spiritual war. A living weapon the Devil may fear. Assigned to monitor him is Father Callum, a grizzled priest who’s seen evil in all its forms. Their mission leads to a...

In Gullhaven, Maine, the sea does not forgive. It keeps records. Knox Fosser arrives in the fog-bound harbor town as a hired enforcer for the Old Coast Mob. But he has not come for money, loyalty, or power. He has come for his son. Calder Briggs is a young fisherman trapped inside the brutal machinery of Gullhaven’s criminal underworld—a system known as the Devil’s Pardon. Some men are forced onto black-water fishing boats as nameless labor. Others hide in town under new identities, their crimes buried beneath salt, silence, and fear. To reach Calder, Fosser must descend into a hidden...

A tense and atmospheric Midwestern domestic suspense perfect for readers of All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers and All The Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham. On a warm Fourth of July night in Duck Lake, Michigan, the Wentworths’ world shattered. As fireworks lit up the sky, Richie and...

A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed. It’s a cold winter evening and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an...

The first message arrived at 2:13 in the morning. Mara Venn, a university archivist who spends her days preserving damaged photographs, has spent eleven years grieving her brother Elias—missing and presumed dead after his truck was found abandoned in the Nevada desert. No body. No blood. No footprints. But tonight, Elias called. Pulled into a labyrinth of conspiracy, Mara discovers the UFA—a secret organization that treated memory as a transferable substance, a kind of weather that could be measured, stored, and forced from one person to another. Her mother, Celia, was part of it. Her ...

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...

Six dark Highland mysteries. One relentless detective. Sarah Lynch has become Fort William's most skilled investigator, solving impossible crimes across the unforgiving Highland landscape. This collection brings together six standalone mysteries that showcase her methodical brilliance, from locked-room puzzles to environmental murders, family betrayals to ritual killings. THE WHISKY GRAVE (Book 7) A master distiller found dead inside a sealed whisky cask. Family secrets fermenting for generations. Sarah must navigate century-old feuds and modern greed to expose a killer hiding behind ...

A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It’s Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe...

Some voices disappear into the storm. Others wait beneath it. Nine years ago, commercial salvage captain Mara Vey lost her husband, Daniel, to the Gulf. There was no body. No wreck she could bring home. Only a violent night on the water, an incomplete account of what happened, and questions Mara learned to live with because answering them might cost more than grief already had. Now another boat has been found adrift off Blackwater Point. Its crew is missing. And its radio knows Mara’s name. At first, the transmission is easy to dismiss: static, interference, the kind of distorted sound ...

“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...

Nathan Colby moved to the isolated timber country to rebuild his life in quiet. Trusting only the physical work and his steady routine. But when a series of brutal animal attacks leaves local woodsmen dead, Nathan finds big, unidentifiable tracks along his own fence line. A mysterious stranger warns him that he has been marked by a terrifying being that cannot be reasoned with. Werewolf: Drywell is a tense, atmospheric survival horror story about a man forced to confront a lurking nightmare before it claims what is left of his mind. The woods are closing in, and some secrets refuse to stay ...

The USA TODAY bestselling novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to...