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 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.

Set in a farming community, the novel follows how the arrival or actions of a persuasive auctioneer alters local social bonds and everyday life. The central pressure comes from interpersonal influence, suspicion, and the erosion of trust among neighbors.

A crime reporter becomes personally entangled when a close relative's death points to a pattern of murders; he pursues leads that connect newsroom sleuthing to federal investigations.

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

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

Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel opens with a prospector who arrives on the West Coast goldfields and becomes entangled with a group of twelve local men and a string of unsolved crimes.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

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 country solicitor is drawn into defending a mother and daughter accused of abducting and assaulting a visiting young woman. The plot hinges on assembling testimony, scrutinizing inconsistent claims, and testing how community suspicion and newspaper pressure shape culpability.

A thirty-something woman travels to her deceased grandmother’s rural home to clear it out and discovers a relative’s writings and a second, unsettling manuscript that record obsessions with a forbidding local book.

A small collective of guerilla gardeners called Birnam Wood accepts backing from a charismatic tech billionaire to undertake a project on neglected farmland.