Mystery Suspense Halloween

Sammy and her friends are startled when they interrupt what seems to be an attempted murder on Halloween. While trick-or-treating at a spooky old, house, they find the door open, and inside a man is tied to a chair while a fire rages on the floor. A robbery? But what valuable could be missing from the home of a reclusive old man?

It’s autumn in New England and Truly and her fellow Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes are gearing up for the annual Halloween Festival. Aunt True and her new husband, Rusty, have bought Ethel and Elmer Farnsworth’s dilapidated old farm on the edge of town, where they’re going to raise sheep and where Truly and her grandparents have volunteered to farm- and sheep-sit while the newlyweds are on their honeymoon. But as always, there are mysteries and secrets afoot in Pumpkin Falls. Jack-o’-lanterns outside the shops downtown are going missing—in broad daylight!

With Halloween just around the corner, the fall colors in Georgetown are brilliant. As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from Spooktacular Ghost Stories. But the celebrity medium arrives for the event in hysterics, insisting she just saw a bare foot sticking out of a rolled-up carpet in a nearby alley. Is someone trying to sweep murder under the rug? Florrie calls in her policeman beau, Sergeant Eric Jonquille, but the carpet corpse has disappeared without a trace.

The Presidential Campaign Trail, 2012: A political operative and a volunteer are brutally murdered while caught in a compromising position. Written in their blood on the wall of the crime scene: IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK. And with that, a centuries-old horror known only as the Boogeyman returns...

Halloween is coming to North Yorkshire, and the seaside town of Whitby is getting ready for its annual Goth Festival, where Goths of all ages descend on the town for a week of music, costumes, and spooky fun. When one of Liz McLuckie’s friends has a terrifying encounter with the Barghest—Yorkshire’s legendary Dog of Death—it sparks a series of mysterious fatalities in the town. Are supernatural forces at work, or is there another, more human, explanation?

From the author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die, comes an explosive mystery about a teenager whose true-crime obsession hits a little too close to home when she begins receiving cryptic messages after moving into a new house. "Deliciously twisted fun!"—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York...

From Blumhouse Books, a haunting thriller about a troubled married couple whose vacation to Paris leads them into a nightmare. "Dark and deeply disturbing. I'm still shuddering."--R.L. Stine “An impressively compelling chiller… an ideal choice for late nights alone.” -- CultureCrypt Mark...

An eerie horror debut about a little boy who recovers from a mysterious illness and inherits an imaginary friend who makes him do violent things... Kids have imaginary friends. Rachel knows this. So when her young son, Billy, miraculously recovers from a horrible flu that has proven fatal for...

Castalia and Bobbi find an old, deserted house in the form of the Carnovasch Estate. Upon looking it over, the girls ultimately end up hosting a Halloween party there, inviting everyone from both Strickfield High and Strickfield Academy to come. After one of Castalia’s friends from Strickfield Academy finds a secret passage into an ancient basement, the girls can’t help but investigate.

Es war einmal ein Hufschmied namens Jack Oldfield. Dieser galt als besonders geizig und trunksüchtig. In der Nacht auf Allerheiligen erschien ihm in einem Wirtshaus der Teufel persönlich und wollte seine Seele holen. Doch Jack verhandelte noch einen allerletzten Trunk. Da der Teufel kein Geld bei sich hatte, verwandelte er sich selbst in eine Münze, um den Trunk zu bezahlen. Jack steckte diese Münze schnell in seine Börse, in der sich ein silbernes, kleines Kreuz befand und sich der Teufel somit nicht zurück verwandeln konnte.

How is one to start again after losing the one thing that speaks to your heart and fuels your passion? After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, and Great Aunt Gracie. After solving the murder of a local girl she begins writing freelance articles for the local newspaper. This turns into a full time career and a new passion and inner healing is found.

Four students travel to Ravencliffe, an eerie abandoned hotel perched on steep cliffs on the Welsh coast. After a series of unexplained accidents, only three of them leave. The fourth, Leo, disappears, and is never seen again. A decade on, the friends have lost contact. Oscar is fame-hungry, making public appearances and selling his story. Richard sank into alcoholism and is only just recovering. Bex just wants to forget – until one last opportunity to go back offers the chance to find out what really happened to Leo.

Trixie has been friends with Diana Lynch for years, even before Di's family became fabulously rich. When a long-lost uncle shows up at the Lynches' doorstep and starts ruining Di's social life, Di asks Trixie for help. But Trixie thinks Uncle Monty isn't just an annoying relative, she thinks he's an imposter!

"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch...

Die vierte Leiche führte Holmes und Watson in ein Krankenhaus. Die Krankenschwester Nancy Rogers wurde auf dieselbe Art und Weise getötet wie ihre Vorgänger. Um ihren Leichnam herum standen nun nur noch zwei Kürbisse. Am Abend danach hatte Watson wieder einen dieser furchteinflößenden Träume. Als er endlich wieder erwachte, konnte er Holmes ein Präsent vom Teufel persönlich überreichen. Und dieses Geschenk ließ nur auf einen einzigen Täter schließen.

Holmes wusste nun, wer der Täter sein musste. Anhand von Inspektor Wolffords Befragungen konnte Holmes schnell einen Zusammenhang herstellen.

Hannibal, Missouri. Pulsing with history. And a 150-year-old unsolved disappearance. Kimberly Wantland and her paranormal investigation team travel to Hannibal, Missouri, for their Halloween episode to investigate The Old Catholic Church. Owner Jillian Olson is sure she knows who haunts the building and why he's antagonizing her. But Kimberly hears whispers of far more than the reported ghostly phenomenon. A dark figure implores her to help. But help who? An empty grave and a disturbing experience inside a cave further confound the case.

Meg Walton is looking forward to a fun and carefree Halloween. Unfortunately, with a full moon in the sky and two recently paroled convicts roaming the streets, it becomes clear that trouble is brewing. And when things finally boil over, Meg's Halloween ends up being filled with far more tricks than treats.

When Evelyn Eldritch’s landlord Randolph is poisoned at his own James Bond-themed party, she needs to find the killer fast. Who killed him? The nephew and heir? The best friend? Or the faithful secretary? Evelyn wants to prove to Detective Inspector Taylor that she’s more than just a bumbling baker with a missing witness—that cat-turned-waitress spell is proving hard to explain! But how many clues did Evelyn miss while wrangling her diva cat? It’s clear Randolph drank a poisoned cocktail, but was the cyanide really meant for him?

Spanning six decades, this book tells the story of a small apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with big ideas, especially when it comes to Halloween. Apartment Five Is Alive puts a new spin on the haunted house story. It’s about a studio apartment in New York City that “loves” Halloween and punishes its inhabitants who don’t celebrate it the way Apartment Five “thinks” they should. Fast-paced, written to be experienced in one sitting, the novels follows the various fates of the apartment’s tenants over five decades.