Detective Horror

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage...

In the centre of the freezing Lake Beluarum stands an inescapable asylum, enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop Rock island. When Ambrose Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned.

This “chilling” (USA TODAY) New York Times bestseller from Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein sends Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper on a harrowing investigation deep inside New York City’s most magnificent and mysterious museums. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exquisite...

The compliance officer for a First Nations band has been shot in the head and left for dead. Unable to cross over to the great hunting grounds, Billy Ghostkeeper must stay and discover who murdered him and why. Through strange, funny, and sometimes harrowing adventures, Billy and his gang of “detectives” discover there could be three reasons why he was killed. It could be that the culprit is a dangerous person or group willing to do anything or sacrifice anyone in order to keep control of the band's natural resources.

In this book, Frank Emerson has uncovered a previously lost narrative by Dr. John H. Watson that illustrates how he and Sherlock Holmes, working in tandem with Detective Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard, conducted an intense 15 year investigation and pursuit that culminated with the unmasking, arrest, trial, and ultimate execution of the real Jack the Ripper.

It was just another call at 3:15am for DC Roger Dickson. Plagued by pills, memories, and loss, we go back to the start of the puzzle - the murder of the angel and Father Millar as DC Dickson tries to piece things together. We then get brought up to date: A visit to the Refuge Asylum to dig a little deeper into Refuge's mysteries.

An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of "The Avenger", they start to suspect something too horrific for words.

"A shocking collision made all the more satisfying by Murphy’s brilliant twists...Clear your schedule—you won’t be putting this down until that last, mesmerizing page.” —Carter Wilson, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did One quiet neighborhood...

Questa raccolta di dieci racconti fantastici, caratterizzati dal gusto per il soprannaturale, il mistico e il macabro, rievocano atmosfere vicine alle narrazioni di Edgar Allan Poe. Chambers ha lasciato il segno nella letteratura horror del Novecento e in particolare nel maestro del mistero e del terrore H.P. Lovecraft, che ha affermato: "Quest'opera raggiunge vertici straordinari di paura cosmica". Giustamente famosi sono i racconti che hanno come filo conduttore "Il Re Giallo", una fantomatica tragedia che induce alla pazzia tutti coloro che la leggono.

Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big secret: she’s actually an assassin. And she really needs a babysitter who shows up on time. Nadia Davis is living the dream as a successful working mom with a career she loves, two adorable little girls, and a devoted husband who has...

When three friends lose their way in a serial killer's old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher. Never turn your back on a friend. Jade, Stef, and Zoe are hiking Washington's Bones Hollow Trail, braving...

Follow Detectives George and Leo as they investigate a trail of mysterious murders within New York City. Murders pointing to a very unlikely candidate. Following the clues, they find themselves in a horror setting which they soon wish to escape. It’s a monster they’ve never faced before. A monster they didn’t think they’d ever face. And yet, it’s a monster particularly crafted for killing. After all, this murderer is everywhere, watching silently. Watching you…watching your family…right now.

The pen is mightier than the sword—but both are deadly in the wrong hands When mystery author Berit Gardner agrees to attend a writer's conference in the idyllic French countryside, she dreams of basking in the sun and nurturing budding talent. But her vacation takes a dark turn when the...

This “chilling” (USA TODAY) New York Times bestseller from Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein sends Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper on a harrowing investigation deep inside New York City’s most magnificent and mysterious museums. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exquisite...

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James arrives in Paris in 1938 eager to make a fresh start, but little does she know the trouble that awaits her... Charlie James is chasing her first big scoop as correspondent for British-based newspaper The Times, and she needs to prove to her boss that...

New York Times best-selling author Meg Cabot fills each adventure in the Mediator series with suspense and humor. Suze Simon is a liaison between ghosts and the living. But this teenager is no hand-holder, she's tough on the spirits who need her help. When the ghost of a murdered woman wakes Suze up one night with an troublesome request, the 16-year-old just wants to get rid of her.

An artfully twisty mystery about the psychological toll of jealousy and guilt from Seicho Matsumoto, who has been hailed as "Japan's Agatha Christie" (The Sunday Times) While on an important business trip, Tsuneo Asai receives word that his wife, Eiko, has died of a heart attack. She has...

For fans of Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Alex Jennings, and Tia Williams, a private eye's detective agency offers salvation for troubled couples in a tale full of seduction and supernatural twists. Linda Villaneuva is private investigator who runs a mystical detective agency where she’s able to sense...

Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel is the most famous vampire tale ever told. British solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself imprisoned in a castle in Transylvania and begins to believe his host, Count Dracula, is not entirely human. As his horror mounts, he suspects that Dracula plans to invade and conquer England, one victim at a time.