Horror, Mystery & Thriller

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award–winning...

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA stolen weapon. A troubled young man. A race against time...Inspector Maigret receives a call from his wife to say he has a visitor at their apartment. But when he gets home, the young man has already...

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human...

The search for a missing father begins to unwind a tangle of family secrets in this riveting new novel from the author of Miracle Creek. Angie Kim weaves together a page-turning mystery, a domestic drama and a philosophic inquiry into the nature of...

*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more*In this “wicked slow burn” (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I...

Nice witches finish last…A guilt-ridden former coven is forced to tap into the magic of their past . . . if they want to stop their lives from going up in flames again.On the outside, luxury real estate agent Sarah Nelson looks like every other...

Jeffrey Deaver brings back his most popular protagonist, Lincoln Rhyme. Even better, he faces his classic foe, Charles Vespasian Hale. This story is a reimersion into classic Deaver thrills, with tantalizing prose, successful plot twists and compelling...

Nalini Singh’s paranormal romance world-building continues to beguile with its brilliance. While her third novel is firmly rooted in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, it remains delectably out of this world.In this chilling thriller from New...

A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.   Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine,...

Kate Quinn is back with another enthralling novel set in 1940's London. The Rose Code centers on three women who were once closer than sisters but have been ripped apart by betrayal and misunderstanding. Osla, Mab and Beth are forced together...

Maybe you've been part of The Thursday Murder Club or enjoyed the literary Easter eggs in Magpie Murders. If so, it's time to join The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, by Rupert Holmes. It's the diabolical lessons they...

In this exciting debut novel comes a fast-paced thriller that follows a sports reporter’s journey off the court…and into a world of murder and deception. Former Olympic athlete and sports reporter Kate Green isn’t sure how much more...

In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an island mansion lures two sisters into a spiderweb of scandal, secrets, and murder.   Two sisters, strangers since birth yet bound by family secrets, are...

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum gets a new assignment and as expected, it’s not as simple as it seems. Janet Evanovich is a master of creating crooks, criminals and ne’er-do-wells, and there’s so much of that, and more, in Dirty Thirty...

A woman in search of a new beginning is put to the test in ways she never imagined in an empowering and provocative page-turner by the author of Not That I Could Tell.   Katie’s divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess...

Worth a read before or after you watch the HBO series. This is a haunting story that only gets darker and more devilish the deeper you go. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, the twists keep coming.Now an HBO limited series starring...

Horror fans have been on to the work of Eric LaRocca for some time now. If you’re a new reader, this is one of two places to begin. The other place is 2022’s Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes. Both books...

The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers is the second volume in the graphic novel horror trilogy following She Eats the Night from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda—the creative team behind the New York Times bestselling...

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord, Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.I told you they were real.After his estranged father’s...