Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.
One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby is a gripping Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic intertwined with dazzling family drama.
When the eldest son, Roman Carruthers, is summoned home after his fatherâs car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the familyâand the family businessâtogether. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Danteâs recklessness has placed them all in real danger.
Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, heâs forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save himself, and his own particular set of skills.
Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.
Because everything burns.
Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten.
On a remote, craggy island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friendsâTilly, Anna, Linnea, and Evelinaâmeet every year. Best friends since childhood, the idea is to drink beer, dance by the water, and shake off the weight of life's expectations. The location of the island is a secret to everyone but them. One night of reckless fun and secret-sharing, and then they return to their normal lives.
Ten years later. Ever since she was a teenager, Tessa Nilsson has been consumed by the story of four friends who disappeared on their annual trip to a remote island together. As her true crime fervor turned into a wildly popular podcast, Tessa urgently covered Swedenâs most gruesome cases, but could never find the answers behind what happened to these women who disappeared, leaving a few maddening clues but no concrete answers. Now Tessaâs podcast has crashed and burned, any chance she had at uncovering the truth vanishing with it.
Anneliese is Tessaâs best friend, and before she walks down the aisle, she wants to have a bachelorette party. The Baltic Vinyasa, a sleek, sophisticated yoga retreat on a small island off the coastâone with such similar characteristics to the tragedy years ago that it raises the hair on Tessaâs neck. The idea is to drink gallons of cava, do sunrise yoga, and get in their last chance to bond with the bride. Tessa will not pass this up. Itâs her last chance to find out what happened to the four women, once and for all.
And itâs someone elseâs last chance to get revenge.
Dan Garvieâs life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a childânarrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims.
So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?
With his signature shock and suspense, Alex North brings us The Man Made of Smoke. In turn emotional, introspective, and utterly terrifying, this is a story of fathers and sons, shadows and secrets, and the fight we all face to escape the trauma of the past.
The Manor of Dreams is a haunting novel that delves deep into the secrets hidden within a crumbling mansion once owned by a former Hollywood starlet. This thrilling tale weaves the intertwined fates of two Chinese American families vying to inherit the estate, amidst whispers of long-buried truths.
"They say what you donât know canât hurt you. But silence can be deadly."
Vivian Yin, the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, rose to fame in the eighties but chose to live out her later years in seclusion. After her death, her family gathers for the reading of her will, expecting to inherit her sprawling Southern California garden estate. However, due to an unexpected change in the will, the house is left to another family, returning after decades of estrangement.
In a bid to claim their inheritance, both families move into the mansion, where they are soon confronted by grief, paranoia, and a more sinister, vengeful presence than they could have imagined. Will they uncover the painful truth about the last summer they spent in the house, or will their secrets remain buried forever?
Told in dual timelines and spanning three generations, The Manor of Dreams is brimming with romance, betrayal, ambition, and sacrifice. This gothic family drama explores the true cost of the American dream and the decay that can set in when roots are neglected.
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when sheâs already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train.
Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater.
The bloody messes donât really bother Coraâsheâs more bothered by the germs on the subway railing, the bare hands of a stranger, the hidden viruses in every corner, and the bite marks on her coffee table. Ever since Delilah was killed in front of her, Cora canât be sure what's real and whatâs in her head.
She pushes away all feelings and ignores the advice of her aunt to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. But she can't ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bat carcasses at crime scenes, or the scary fact that all her recent cleanups have been the bodies of East Asian women.
As Cora will soon learn, you canât just ignore hungry ghosts.
For fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Gretchen Felker-Martin, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a wildly original, darkly humorous, and subversive contemporary novel from a striking new voice in horror.
In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twinâs influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.
Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse.
Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself thrust into the glamorous yet perilous world of her late twin sister, Chloe VanHuusen, a popular influencer. Separated at a young age, the identical twins were polar opposites and rarely spoke, except for one viral video that Chloe initiated (Finding My Long-Lost Twin And Buying Her A House #EMOTIONAL). When Julie discovers Chloeâs lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she seizes the chance to live the life sheâs always envied.
Transforming into Chloe is easier than expected. Julie effortlessly adopts Chloeâs luxurious influencer life, complete with designer clothes, a meticulous skincare routine, and millions of adoring followers. However, Julie soon realizes that Chloeâs seemingly picture-perfect life was anything but.
Haunted by Chloeâs untimely death and struggling to fit into the privileged influencer circle, Julie faces mounting challenges during a weeklong island retreat with Chloeâs exclusive group of influencer friends. As events spiral out of control, Julie uncovers the sinister forces that may have led to her sisterâs demise and realizes she might be the next target.
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel.
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.
Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something: a mysterious staircase to nowhere.
One friend walks upâand never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.
Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boyâand what lies beyond the staircase in the woods.
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Mollyâs life is threatened. The question is whoâs out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel.
Molly Grayâs life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancĂŠ, Juan Manuel, only two months away.
But Mollyâs entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her granâs old things for appraisal, and much to everyone's surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensationâthe worldâs rags-to-riches darlingâuntil the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.
The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Mollyâs gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Granâs true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Granâs life is someone Molly knows quite wellâŚ
Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.
A spirited heist caper and an epic love story, The Maidâs Secret is a spellbinding whodunnit that will capture and warm your heart.
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarahâs death is ruled an accident, and every year the family returns to prove itâs true.
But on the thirtieth anniversary of Sarahâs death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for themâthe necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died.
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can findâdiscarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastropheâcities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried pastâand what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why canât she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.
It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally.
But when she wakes, her husband Luke isnât there, and in his place is a cryptic note.
Then it starts. Breaking news: A hostage situation is developing in London. The police tell her Luke is involvedâbut he isn't a hostage. Her husbandâdoting father, eternal optimistâis the gunman.
Something in the Walls is a spine-chilling tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
When the Johnson family moves into their dream home, they never expected it to turn into a nightmare. Strange noises, eerie shadows, and unexplainable events haunt their everyday life.
Will they uncover the secrets hidden within the walls, or will they fall victim to the sinister presence lurking in the shadows?
Join Daisy Pearce on this thrilling journey filled with suspense, mystery, and a touch of the supernatural.
When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10? Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival.
A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be.
Enter Adele, a single mother with a fierce determination to protect her children at all costs. When she begins the game, she unwittingly enters a twisted web of deception and intrigue. Can she maneuver through the treacherous storm and the relentless competition and get home to her family?
In a ruthless battle for survival where the stakes are higher than ever, the blurry line between the virtual and the real proves that the only person we can trust is ourselves.
When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del AngĂŠl to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chanceâparticularly since she has an ax to grind with one of the invitees. The guest list? Six thriller authors, all masters of deceit, misdirection, and mayhem.
Alastor and Mila have masterminded a week of games, trope-fueled riddles, and maybe a jump scare or twoâthe perfect cover for Mila to plot a murder of her own. But when a guest turns up deadâand itâs not the murder she plannedâMila finds herself trapped in a different narrative altogether.
With a storm cutting off the island, and the body count rising, Mila must outwit a killer who knows literally every trick in the book.
Scythe & Sparrow is an exhilarating tale where circus motorcycle performer Rose meets the lonely small-town doctor Fionn. Their paths cross after a night of murderous adventure goes awry, leading to unexpected bonds and thrilling escapades.
A woman invited to her wealthy fiancĂŠâs family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secretâand that sheâs been there before.
A whirlwind romance. When Theodora Scott met Connorâwealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton familyâshe fell in love in an instant. Six months later, heâs brought her to Idlewood, his familyâs isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives.
Stay away from Connor Dalton. Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she canât ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.
Iâve been here before. Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything.
For fans of Jordan Peeleâs films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.
Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamieâbut now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, heâs off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.
When Jamieâs actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their livesâand realityâhang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.
The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage...
... and revenge.
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there... but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He canât sleep, and he canât write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible â a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change but they donât.
Husbands think their wives wonât change but they do.
The nightmare sheâs running from is nothing compared to where sheâs headed.
Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesnât realize sheâs heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination.
Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries sheâs made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle happens: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
But something isnât right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isnât what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.
And now she must do whatever it takes to save herselfâand her unborn child.
A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.
Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding⌠because that was supposed to be her job.
Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a renowned pediatric surgeon, an infamous tragedy survivor, and a national hero. Heâs also very deadâthanks to a fall down the stairs. His neighbors angrily point a finger at the newest Ms. Dougherty, Addison. The sudden marriage to the mysterious young woman only lasted ninety-seven days, and heâd had two suspicious âaccidentsâ during that time. Now Addison is a very rich widow.
As law enforcement starts to circle in on Addison and people in town become increasingly hostile, sides are chosen with Kathryn, Richmondâs high school sweetheart, wife number one, and the mother of his children, leading the fray. Despite rising tensions, Addison is even more driven to forge ahead on the path she charted years agoâŚ
Determined at all costs to unravel Richmondâs legacy, she soon becomes a targetâwith a shocking note left on her bedroom: You will pay. But it will take a lot more than faceless threats to stop Addison. Her plan to marry Richmond then ruin him may have been derailed by his unexpected death, but sheâs not done with him yet.
Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls is a haunting novel that will thrill fans of All Good People Here and We Are All the Same in the Dark.
Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You.
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina. But freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears.
Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast, Ten Seconds to Vanish, that focuses on the cold cases, to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery.
In the present, one sister seeks to untangle a complicated web of lies.
In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate.
This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.
Jessica Goodman meets The Agathas in this taut, twisty YA thriller set in the glittering world of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where secretsâand bodiesânever stay buried.
For the New Orleans elite, the Les Masques Ball is sure to be the social event of the seasonâif they can avoid another dead Queen. When debutante Margot Landry was found dead the morning after her reign at last yearâs ball, it was a tragedy, but not a shocking one. Margot was a wild child with a self-destructive streak, nothing like this yearâs Queen, Lily LeBlanc. With a perfectly poised debutante on the throne, everything is going according to planâŚuntil the ball is hijacked by a mysterious figure in a Jester costume.
That night, Lily sends a text to three of the Maids on her royal courtâher best friend, Vivian; her boyfriend's sister, Piper; and April, her former frenemyâasking them all to meet the next morning. But Lily never shows up.
On the surface, these three debutantes donât have anything in common except their exclusive private school and their ties to Les Masques. But soon, they realize why Lily brought them together: something dark is lurking beneath the glamorous surface of the debutante world, and it might be the reason she disappeared. And the further the girls dig, the more they begin to suspect that Margot's death may not have been an accidentâand that Lily may be next.
When the Jester starts threatening to expose their own secrets, this unlikely trio must team up to uncover the monsters behind the Mardi Gras masksâbefore theyâre left with another dead debutante.
Framed is a compelling work of non-fiction by #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey. This book shares ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions, offering an inside look at the injustice faced by victims of the United States criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is the presumption of innocence. However, once someone is found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty. These men sacrificed friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free.
In each story, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic, hard-fought battles for exoneration. They examine what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, including racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and a corrupt court system that makes them difficult to reverse.
Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is a story of overcoming adversity when the battle seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.
LAPD Detective RenĂŠe Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harryâs daughter.
RenĂŠe Ballard and the LAPDâs Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-three, so the genetic link must be familial. It is his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.
Meanwhile, Ballardâs badge, gun, and ID are stolenâa theft she canât report without giving her enemies in the department the ammunition they need to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her solo mission leads her into greater danger than she anticipates. She has no choice but to go outside the department for help, and that leads her to the door of Harry Bosch.
Finally, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit. Boschâs daughter Maddie wants to supplement her work as a patrol officer on the night beat by investigating cases with Ballard. But RenĂŠe soon learns that Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the cityâs library of lost souls.
How far would you go to belong?
Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunionâitâs been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there. This visit is special because Maya will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi.
But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Mayaâs worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on.
As Maya pieces together what happened in the months leading up to her sisterâs death, she begins to realize how much Naomi hid from her. Despite Mayaâs warnings, Naomi had joined Sterling Club, the most exclusive social club on campusâthe same one Maya belonged to. And if she had to guess, Naomi was likely tapped for the secret society within it.
The more Maya uncovers, the more terrified she becomes that Naomiâs decision to follow in her footsteps might have been what got her killed. Because Mayaâs time at Princeton wasnât as wonderful as sheâd always made it seemâafter all, her sister wasnât the first young woman to turn up dead. Now every clue is leading Maya back to the past . . . and to the secret sheâs kept all these years.
She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. Sheâs seen it allâmen who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.
Then the brutal murder of a young womanâthe latest in a string of deaths across the coastâconfounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she canât shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesnât get to the truth, sheâll be the killerâs next victim...
A dark story about obsession and the things weâll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiestâŚ
Book 2 in the New Species series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.
Dr. Trisha Norbit is flat on her back in a hospital bed, pinned under a really big New Species male. Though drugged out of his mind, he promises her ecstasy and is determined to deliverâbut hospital staff intervenes. 215 is a man Trisha will never forget. But, when she meets him again at HomelandâŚhe doesnât even remember her!
The nosy new doctor wants to know all about the breeding habits between humans and Species. Slade proposes a hands-on education but sheâs not interested in a one-night stand. He canât offer more because heâs haunted by the memory of a woman he once tried to claim. Heâs shocked when he realizes they are one and the same. Heâs blown itâsheâll never give him a chance now.
But, when her life is in danger, heâs the only one who can save her. As they flee through the wilderness, their desire ignites and cannot be denied. Hot sex, on the run, has consequences that are even more dangerous and will change their lives forever.
A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel.
Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows.
To celebrate the hotelâs first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasnât spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened.
But who better than them to appreciate Alfredâs creation? And to help him finish it.
After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
Dearest is a gripping tale that takes you into the life of Flora, a new mom who is deeply in love with her baby girl, Iris, despite her unexpected early arrival. With her husband deployed, Flora finds herself navigating the challenges of motherhood alone, as the sleepless nights blur the boundaries of her reality.
Just as Flora fears she is losing her mind, an unexpected visitor arrives: her estranged mother, with whom she hasn't spoken in years. Can they heal old wounds? Or is there something more sinister lurking in the shadows of their past?
As eerie events begin to unfold, Flora suspects that their home might not be as empty as she once thought. She is faced with the chilling question: Is her grip on reality slipping away, or is she the only thing standing between a terrifying presence and her precious baby?
From the New York Times bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling second book in her national bestselling series. This gripping tale is told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.
Dive into a world of dark intrigue and suspense as you follow the chilling game of cat and mouse between these two compelling characters. The Butcher Game will keep you on the edge of your seat with its intense narrative and unexpected twists.
Nora Nooneâs father, Liam, was many things to many people. To the public, he was a self-made hotel magnate, whose luxury boutique hotels were among the most coveted destinations in the world. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving yet distant family man who managed to keep his financesâand his familiesâseparate. But to Nora, her father was always a mysteryâespecially after his suspicious death at his cliffside home.
Though the authorities rule Liam's death accidental, Nora and her estranged brother, Sam, believe otherwise. As they form an uneasy alliance to unpack the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their fatherâs past and uncover a family secret that changes everything.
With Laura Daveâs signature blend of pulse-pounding suspense and emotional heft, The Night We Lost Him is a propulsive must-read, with a heartbreaking final twist youâll never see coming.
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve...
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amyâs business now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesnât stay still long enough for habits or routines. Sheâs currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie DâAntonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job...
Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?
Sleep Tight is a propulsive thriller that will grip you from the very first page. The story revolves around the sole survivor of a serial killer, who might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders.
Dark and twisting at every turn, this chilling tale will captivate fans of horror and suspense. Beware the one who got away...
Father Silence once terrorized the rural town of Twisted Tree, disguising himself as a priest to prey on the most vulnerable. When the police uncovered his âHouse of Horrors,â they found nineteen bodies and one survivorâa boy now in a hospital for the criminally insane.
Years later, Father Silence is put to death, but the next day, the detective who arrested him is found dead. A new killer, the Outcast, emerges, claiming responsibility.
Detective Tess Claibourne, the daughter of the murdered detective, is drawn into the case when her own daughter is kidnapped by the Outcast. With no leads, she returns to Twisted Tree to visit the boy who survived and uncover the secrets buried in his mind.
With captivating prose and an old-school horror flair, Sleep Tight is a haunting tale from a master of the genre.