Crime Horror Fiction

I had to do the unthinkable—and now I've discovered that every move I've made has been part of a villain's maniacal plan. All this time I believed I'd found my freedom, I've still had someone pulling my strings. Those days are over. The man who considers himself my master is the worst monster I've ever known. My crew and I won't let him get away with his manipulations or the even more disturbing crimes we uncover. But no matter how talented we are in our killer skills, we're just five people up against a crime lord with more connections than I can count.

As the Blue Jays edge closer to their first World Series win since 1993, the pressure on Toronto feels like it's about to explode. Between the separatist bombings and violent protests at castration clinics, you'd think Toronto had enough to deal with. But when a doomsday cult promising freedom for everyone sweeps the city, high strangeness reigns, and it gets even weirder. Grassfinch is a psychedelic fever dream filled with alien abduction, psychics, organ theft, and, of course, raccoons.

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

Marty Cantrell is an artist with a dark obsession. He follows women. But he’s not a stalker. He doesn’t harm them. They don’t even know he’s there, hiding in the shadows, watching them in their private moments like pieces of art displayed for only him to see. One night, he saves Amelia Cole from the touch of a killer’s blade. By committing a good deed during one of his nightly escapades, he’s come out of the shadows that he’s felt secure hiding in for so long. Now he’s ensnared in a psychopathic killer’s violent murder spree.

The Arrangements is a short story originally published for The New York Times Book Review, which commissioned Adichie to “write anything about this election you like.” The story focuses on Melania Trump and is a homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway...

A masterful, inventive thriller from a remarkably assured and always surprising young writer. Perpetual graduate student Joseph Geist is at his wit's end. Recently kicked out of their shared apartment by his girlfriend, he's left with little more than a half bust of Nietzsche's head and the...

The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk’s internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls “tense and smartly constructed” When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran...

Thirty-two and a half hours: It is all the time this world has left.Kaka has rung the Dhwansnaad, bringing upon earth an evil that will ruin all. Vyas ji has barely managed to save a chosen few. Karan has lost his father. Antima has lost her courage. And no one knows what has become of Jay.In...

Return to the world of the Spectre War in the third installment of this thrilling space opera saga. On a forgotten planet in the midst of an interstellar war, a resistance leader will rise. Teal Sorenson has lost everything in the two years since the alien Spectres descended upon the...

When a blood-stained effigy of body parts is found in a central London park, D.I. Daniel Graves must set about trying to discover what it could mean and find the person responsible. Symbols at the crime scene suggest the occult. Who would leave a murder victim in such a way, and why? As Graves and partner D.I. Charlie Palmer begin to investigate the ritual and the act of human sacrifice, they enlist the help of Charlotte Gooding, a talented professor specializing in the subject. They hope to narrow down a motive—could the killer believe in the supernatural? Witchcraft, even?

Born and raised in rural Alabama, Billy Creekmore was destined to be a psychic. His mother, a Choctaw Indian schooled in her tribe's ancient mysticism, understands the permeable barrier between life and death - and can cross it. She taught the power to Billy, and now he helps the dead rest in peace.

Join Alexander Storm as he leads a diverse team of would-be-heroes around the world in search of the 12 Hours of Night. The fabled Ancient Egyptian papyrus has been split into 12 parts and secreted around the globe at major archaeological sites. With only a set of intricate riddles as their guide, the team must face all manner of supernatural villains as they race against time and a duo of enigmatic demons who are hellbent on acquiring the 12 Hours and opening the gates to Hell on Earth.

A maternal gothic tale of new motherhood and the torment of a centuries-old haunting Before the shadow appeared, Sofia thought mothering would be all sun-drenched light and white linen sheets, as seen advertised by the momfluencers of Instagram. In her gorgeous home anchored in a posh suburb...

“Extraordinary.”—Linwood Barclay “Tracy Sierra is a master of edge-of-your-seat suspense.”—Flynn Berry The heart-stopping second novel from the author of Nightwatching, in which a father-son ski weekend becomes a desperate fight for survival Twelve-year-old Zach is cautiously...

“A morally complex and life-affirming exploration of what it means to be alive, and of the enduring power of love to transform, reanimate, and redeem.” —Celeste Ng, New York Times-bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a...

Difficile la vita di Patricia Campbell: divisa tra un marito troppo impegnato col lavoro, i figli e l'anziana suocera, la sua unica oasi felice è un gruppo di lettura di libri true crime. Un giorno al gruppo si unisce James Harris, bello, misterioso e sensibile, che fa sentire alla donna cose ormai non provate da anni. Eppure c'è qualcosa di strano in lui: non ha un conto in banca, non esce durante il giorno e la suocera di Patricia sostiene di averlo conosciuto da ragazza. Quando alcuni bambini scompaiono senza che la polizia faccia nulla, Patricia e le amiche sospettano che James sia un serial killer.

In the skies above the ancient Scottish city of Dundee, crows are massing. Beneath its streets, a forgotten river runs in darkness, and an ages-old monster slumbers. When the river dries, the creature will wake. In the fall of 1976, teenage student David is drawn by forces he doesn’t understand to a city in the shadow of the crow. All too soon he will find himself tested and terrified beyond endurance.

A dark and twisty debut about a woman whose high school sweetheart is accused of murder—and it’s up to her to find out if he’s guilty You can run from your secrets, but they’ll always catch up with you. When criminal lawyer Justine Stone is handed the lead on her first murder case...

Nothing bad ever happens in the quiet little town of Hope. However, when the circus rolls in one misty morning in late October, everyone decides to go see what they have. Even the Jorgenson family and their 8 year old son Noah head on down to the circus big top, but when it is time to leave he is nowhere to be found. With the help of Sheriff Langley, his parents search the premises, but they don't find him. Now that it is closing time, they are forced to leave in hopes that he will come home. Will they ever find him and all the other children that have gone missing from other towns?

அறிவியலுக்கும் அமானுஷ்யத்திற்கும் இடையே நிகழும் தீராத போராட்டத்தை முன்வைக்கும் இந்நாவல் கணேஷ் வசந்த் தோன்றும் சுஜாதாவின் படைப்புகளில் பெரும் புகழ்பெற்றதாகும். மனதை அதிர வைக்கும் சம்பவங்களும் எதிர்பாராத திருப்பங்களும் தீர்க்கமுடியாத புதிர்களும் நிறைந்த கொலையுதிர் காலம் வெளிவந்த காலத்திலிருந்தே வாசகர்களின் உற்சாகமான வாசிப்பிற்கு உரியதாக இருந்து வந்திருக்கிறது.