Mysteries, Thrillers, Horror, Oh My!
April 2025
Recent Releases
I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom
by Jason Pargin

A driver is offered $200,000 to transport a mysterious woman and her even more mysterious black box across the country under strict rules, sparking social media rumors and a chaotic race against time. 75,000 first printing.
The Quiet Librarian
by Allen Eskens

In Minnesota, librarian Hana Babic, once the feared Bosnian fighter Night Mora, is forced to confront her past when her best friend Amina is murdered. To protect Amina’s grandson, she must unravel a deadly mystery tied to war-torn Bosnia, facing relentless enemies while balancing justice, survival, and the weight of her past.
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
by Sarah Harman

Former pop star and struggling single mom Florence Grimes is an outsider at her son Dylan’s elite London school. When his bully, Alfie, vanishes, suspicion falls on Dylan, forcing Florence to investigate. As she uncovers startling secrets, she must navigate wealth, deception, and her own path to redemption.
Glass Houses
by Madeline Ashby

A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, crash onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island. Luckily, those who survived have found a beautiful, fully-stocked private palace, with all the latest technological updates (though one without connection to the outside world). The house, however, has more secrets than anyone might have guessed, and a much darker reason for having been built and left behind.
Famous Last Words
by Gillian McAllister

Camilla’s life takes a shocking turn when her husband, Luke, leaves behind a mysterious note and becomes involved in a hostage situation. Over the following years, as she raises their daughter alone, Cam uncovers buried secrets, trying to make sense of Luke’s disappearance and find peace.
The inheritance
by Trisha Sakhlecha

The Agarwal family gathers on a private Scottish island for a reunion where patriarch Raj plans to announce his company's succession, but as long-held secrets, personal betrayals, and simmering tensions rise, the reunion takes a deadly turn, leaving someone murdered in their wake.
The garden : a novel
by Nick Newman

Elderly sisters Evelyn and Lily live in isolation within a walled garden, tending to their secluded home, until the discovery of a mysterious boy hiding nearby disrupts their routine and forces them to confront dark truths about themselves and their isolated existence.
The crash
by Freida McFadden

Eight months pregnant and abandoned by her baby's father, Tegan embarks on a desperate journey to her brother's house during a storm, only to crash and find herself at the mercy of a remote couple with potentially sinister intentions. Simultaneous.
The buffalo hunter hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones

In 1912, a Lutheran pastor documents the chilling confessions of Good Stab, a Blackfeet vampire seeking justice for a historical massacre, intertwining themes of revenge, survival and haunting truths on the Blackfeet reservation.
The dream hotel : a novel
by Laila Lalami

After a dream-analysis algorithm predicts that she will harm her husband, Sara is detained in a facility with similarly accused women, where she navigates shifting rules until a new arrival leads her to confront the forces controlling her fate.
Death takes me : a novel
by Cristina Rivera Garza

When Professor Cristina Rivera Garza discovers a mutilated corpse marked with cryptic poetry, she becomes entangled in a chilling investigation where literary clues reveal unsettling truths about violence, desire, and gender in an eerie, all-too-familiar world.
Graveyard shift : a novella
by M. L. Rio

Five night-shift cemetery workers discover a mysterious, freshly dug grave, leading them to trail the gravedigger and uncover connections to recent strange events in their town, in the new novel by the author of If We Were Villains.
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