A young woman from a Chinese-Malaysian community becomes involved in a ghost marriage ritual that asks her to negotiate between family expectations and a claim from the otherworld.

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.

A literary mystery shaped by old films and the archival traces they leave behind: a narrator follows production records, stills, and fragments of silent cinema to reconstruct a troubling past and the people connected to it.

Set in British-ruled Kolkata, the novel focuses on a detective-style investigation that unfolds within the political and social complexities of colonial India. A central inquiry—criminal in nature—pressures characters to confront local power structures, cultural differences, and the legal realities of the period.

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

A federal police agent comes back to his drought-hit hometown for a friend's funeral and must investigate a family death that the community assumes was a murder-suicide.

Two grieving men find solace in fishing and become drawn to a local, haunted fishing spot whose history links to deeper, primordial forces. Their attempt to escape loss becomes entangled with an older, supernatural presence that tests what they will risk to reclaim what is gone.

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 city divided by rival clans becomes the stage for a power struggle where jade — a material that grants enhanced combat abilities — is the source of status and strength. The plot focuses on inter-family rivalry, questions of duty and leadership, and the consequences of wielding a fought-over supernatural resource.