A man taking a winter caretaker post at an isolated mountain hotel brings his family to live on-site during the off-season.

An unnamed young woman marries a wealthy widower and moves to his grand West Country estate, where she finds the household dominated by the presence and legend of his late first wife.

Two strangers meet by chance and one proposes an unthinkable bargain: each will commit a murder on the other's behalf so neither will have an obvious motive. The encounter binds their lives into suspicion and blackmail, creating a psychological contest of guilt, plausibility, and escalating consequences.

Set around a criminal investigation, the novel focuses on a case that raises questions about identity and culpability when the accused exhibits signs of multiple personality or severe mental disturbance.

A professionally curious narrator pursues the life of a shadowy criminal figure across interwar European settings, following clues from travel and chance encounters to reconstruct motive and method.

A group of university students visits a remote island that was the scene of a gruesome mass killing months earlier; once there, ominous events begin and a sequence of murders unfolds within the isolated setting.

Four investigators — a parapsychology-minded scientist, his wife, and two mediums — spend a week inside the most notorious haunted house to test whether life after death or malignant forces linger there.

A troubled fashion model moves into a large New York brownstone divided into apartments and encounters strange disturbances centered on the building and its top-floor, blind Catholic priest.

Set at a small, elite liberal-arts college, the novel follows a tight group of Classics students whose scholarly intensity and social isolation lead to a violent rupture.

An eighteen-year-old narrator lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle in an isolated family home long shunned by their village after a past tragedy. The novel records how the household maintains rituals and defenses while outside hostility and the characters’ secrets exert pressure on daily life.

Told from the viewpoint of a returning World War II veteran, the novel follows his arrival in Los Angeles and the tense relationships he forms there while an external string of murders and police investigation encircle him.

A mid-20th-century suspense novel about a charming but morally unstable man who adopts false identities to infiltrate lives and escape detection. The central pressure is his need to maintain appearances while evading suspicion after his deceptions lead to criminal acts.