Gothic Detective Thrillers

The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The Name of the Rose The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is...

Scarlet Fever: A Dark, Suspenseful Old Money Equestrian Gothic Romance Pemberwick Hunt Club has it all: Exclusivity. Bloodlines. Legacy. But some secrets are too dark to stay hidden. Unravel a chilling cold case in the heart of Virginia's elite fox hunting country. June Faulconer, the reclusive host of the hit true-crime podcast Defrosted, specializes in mysteries whispered to be supernatural. But when a cryptic email forces her back to Pemberwick Hall, the ancestral estate steeped in her own family's dark legacy, she confronts a chilling truth: the line between human evil and ancient myth ...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER now in a 7 1/2 anniversary edition with new work from Stuart Turton outlining how he wrote one of the most mind-bending mysteries of all time. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race to find a killer, with an...

The next quilt is red. Homicide detective Kathy Marconi walks away from the NYPD under the shadow of a scandal she didn't start and couldn't survive. Looking for distance, she bids on a crumbling plantation in rural Louisiana, wins it, and tells herself it's a fresh start. It isn't. The house has been keeping its dead for two centuries, and they are not finished with the living. The enslaved people who built the Caine Plantation, who ran the quilts and kept the codes of the Underground Railroad, never left. They want justice. And they have chosen Kathy to deliver it. She's solved cold cases...

When the living sleep, the dead come out to drink In the sultry haze of New Orleans, where shadows whisper secrets and history bleeds through the soil, private investigator Wyatt Thomas—renowned for untangling the city’s haunted past—tackles the enigma of Belle Reve’s destruction. The antebellum plantation mansion lies in charred ruins, officially blamed on an electrical fault. But the streets hum with darker tales: arson fueled by vengeance, fanned by social media vitriol hailing the fire as “justice” for the estate’s brutal slaveholding legacy. Some point to descendants of ...

London, 1822. A killer stalks the streets. Panic spreads. And in a city of beasts, it will take a monster to catch one… A mysterious beast is loose in Georgian London, leaving a trail of bodies and terror in its wake. As hysteria rises, Charles Wheeler — a disgraced thief-taker and former circus “freak” — is offered one last chance at redemption. His employer: Richard Martin, eccentric MP and architect of Britain’s first law against cruelty to animals. His mission: hunt down a killer before the city tears itself apart. But as Wheeler descends into London’s underbelly — its ...

This gripping fictional true crime podcast delves into the story of the enigmatic Dorian Gray, a vigilante who changed the world, rewriting history in the blood of her victims. Her targets were the titans of their era—billionaires, movie stars, politicians. Dorian said they had one thing in common: they had all committed crimes against women. They were rapists, abusers, master manipulators. Dorian left evidence of their heinous offenses with their bodies, and then she vanished without a trace.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A consistently exciting and never predictable series."--Associated Press When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young...

Bubble, bubble, toil, and murder... When a woman is found dead near her village in Norfolk, the verdict is suicide. Not everyone agrees. Detective James Simpson is ordered to investigate and he brings Agatha Aston, a young woman high of intellect and low in patience, Betty Stevens and a lovelorn hound called Talleyrand, with him. They stumble across a tale of murder that stretches back two centuries. Part occult story, part murder mystery - this creepy tale is steeped in witchcraft and strange rural festivals where everything is not as it seems. The second Agatha Aston murder mystery is ...

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A body posed like a Greek statue. Skin preserved like marble. And a killer who thinks he's creating art. When a wealthy New Orleans collector opens a shipping crate expecting a neoclassical sculpture, he finds something far worse—a woman's body, chemically preserved and arranged in a classical pose. Within days, a second victim surfaces in the ruins of a Mississippi Delta plantation, staged with the same chilling precision. FBI Special Agent Katie Ford and her veteran partner Nina Shaw are sent ...

In this haunting thriller from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and bestselling author Chuck Hogan, a horrific crime that defies explanation, a rookie FBI agent in uncharted territory, and an extraordinary hero for the ages. "Inventive and macabre." ―Kirkus Reviews Odessa...

Of all the demons and monsters Samantha Moon has faced over the years, only one is unstoppable: time. Life feels as stable as it’s ever going to get—which should have been her first warning. When an unexpected call from her sister brings devastating news about their father’s failing health, Sam is forced to confront a past she’s long avoided. Since leaving for college, she’s been estranged from her parents. They were distant at best, leaving her older sister to raise the family. And whatever small hope Sam once had of reconnecting died the night she lost her mortal life in ...

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. This is his story. In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket...

BEING DEVELOPED AS A TV SERIES BY FOX "The heroine of this psychological thriller is, improbably, an astrophysicist and psychic. Narrator Karissa Vacker captures Vivvy Bouchet's smarts and the urgency with which she goes after the mystery of Lizzy Solomon's disappearance."- AudioFile “Narrator...

The trials of Gabriel Ward continue in A Case of Life and Limb, available now. Bloomsbury presents A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith, read by Matthew Lloyd Davies. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BRITISH BOOK AWARD, CRIME & THRILLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal...

From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die. When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton...

A murdered librarian. A missing manuscript. An obvious suspect. Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment in the cozy British mystery series The Trials of Gabriel Ward. The librarian's dead body lies in a pool of lamplight on his desk. A priceless medieval document has been stolen from...

THE ELECTRIC MAN A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Mark Collins In the fog-choked wharves of Victorian London, a night-watchman is found dead at his post — throat and hands scorched black, his face frozen in a rictus of pure terror, though not a mark of any ordinary weapon can be found upon him. When a second victim is discovered days later, burned in the same impossible fashion, whispers begin to spread along the riverside: something enormous, something wreathed in blue and crackling light, is walking the Wapping fog by night. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to a case unlike any ...

AN ELLE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEAR "I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." —Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal All is calm, all is bright . . . until reluctant sleuth barrister Gabriel Ward is tasked with finding the culprit of yet another grisly crime in the...