A live-in nanny takes a job at a remote, high-tech Scottish house and later finds herself accused of a murder that occurred there.

A methodical police investigation into a series of linked killings anchors the book: detectives follow cryptic clues that connect victims and a recurring symbolic motif as they race to identify a serial perpetrator.

A contemporary American family becomes entangled with unexplained, possibly supernatural occurrences that surface long-buried trauma and danger. The story places intimate domestic fractures next to uncanny events, creating a pressure between ordinary family life and escalating, mysterious threat.

A compact, tense novel set around a single household where strange omissions and unsettling behaviors create a mystery of who can be trusted. Multiple perspectives and withheld information generate pressure: secrets accumulate inside the house while outside facts remain uncertain.

Set in a recent historical past, the story focuses on a coal-merchant and shopkeeper whose ordinary routines are interrupted when he encounters evidence of suffering connected to a local institution.

A multi-century, character-focused account of a single house in New England and the people who inhabit, alter, and imagine it over time. The book traces lives and local change through episodes anchored to the house, using domestic objects and family relationships to show historical shifts and personal consequences.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

An African-American Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews, travels Highway 59 into a small Texas town to investigate the death of a Black visitor and encounters local resistance, simmering racial tensions, and tangled loyalties.

A woman who works as a local tour guide becomes alarmed by disappearances and unsettling changes in her Brooklyn neighborhood and starts investigating.

Set in Georgian England, Marian Hayes flees London after shooting her abusive husband and falls into an uneasy alliance with Rob Brooks, a cheerful highwayman and con man who has blackmailed her.

A scientist who researches human cloning discovers her husband has used her work to create an identical partner.

A newly placed woman at a secluded country house confronts eerie, inexplicable phenomena tied to the home’s past while she navigates grief, social scrutiny, and household secrets. The book sets up a slow-building collision between domestic routine and uncanny intrusions that heighten psychological strain.