Set during the American Civil War, the novel focuses on a freedwoman who takes a dangerous undercover role within a Confederate household to gather intelligence, while a man posing as a Confederate soldier is secretly working the same network for Union purposes.

A government research zone has been sealed off after decades of strange phenomena. A team of four unnamed female specialists enters as the twelfth expedition to survey the area and record observations.

A seasoned mechanic with a criminal past tries to keep his family and failing auto shop afloat by attempting one last heist; the job brings him back into violent, high-risk territory and forces urgent choices about loyalty, survival, and identity.

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.

Three apparently separate family tragedies — a child's disappearance, a domestic killing, and an inexplicable murder — form the puzzle around a private investigator who reconstructs lives through interviews, documents, and visits.

Set in ancient Thebes during the 11th dynasty, the novel places a household under scrutiny after a series of deaths.

A collection of personal documents—letters, diary entries, and newspaper reports—traces a mounting confrontation with a predatory nobleman who relocates from Eastern Europe to England.

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.

A married couple's crisis becomes the novel's engine when the wife disappears and attention turns to the husband as a suspect.

A nested, epistolary metafiction: an editor-like narrator assembles and annotates a manuscript about a documentary called The Navidson Record, which recounts a family's discovery that their house contains impossible interior spaces.

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 seasoned Dublin detective and his partner investigate the murder of a twelve-year-old girl while unresolved events from the lead detective’s own childhood—disappearances in nearby woods decades earlier—complicate his judgment and the case.

Set around a near-future global election system in which small, competitive micro-democracies (centers of political power) and powerful information platforms shape outcomes, the book follows intersecting characters whose loyalties, jobs, and survival link to campaigns, corporate interests, and the flow of data.

A group of older, formerly professional killers—now ostensibly retired—are pulled into a dangerous sequence of events when a job and its fallout force them to act. The book follows their attempts to manage threats, reckon with past choices, and protect one another while outside forces close in.

A coded plea from deep inside frozen Russia summons a linguistically gifted outsider to infiltrate a secret research installation.

Set across multiple time periods beginning in the early 20th century, the novel places two close young women inside a secluded, quasi-religious community on a Scottish island.

A Philadelphia patrol officer working in a struggling neighborhood pursues a string of murders while also searching for her own missing sister.

A tightly plotted conspiracy thriller about a young man drawn into a dangerous web of secrets connected to his brother and a larger, violent past.

In Lagos, a practical older sister wrestles with protecting her younger, more glamorous sister after the younger woman repeatedly kills romantic partners. The central pressure is the older sister’s daily management of evidence, social optics, and her own conflicted devotion while fearing discovery and moral compromise.

A journalist-investigator pursues the murky death and legacy of a notorious film director whose work inspired a devoted, secretive subculture.

A determined investigator reopens a dangerous case tied to recent political violence and personal loss, tracing clues that connect domestic life to wider conflict. The book follows her efforts to untangle family grief and a history of unrest while someone with violent intent may still be at large.

Two aging ex-con fathers unite after their sons — a married interracial couple — are murdered, and they set out to find the killers. The immediate pressure is violent revenge complicated by grief, entrenched prejudices, and the challenge of protecting the son's infant.

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.

An espionage thriller centered on a woman trained by Russian intelligence to use seduction and deception as tools of recruitment and infiltration.

A solitary, resourceful man becomes both would-be assassin and hunted prey after attempting to kill a powerful foreign figure.

A father with a criminal past confronts an urgent family crisis involving his daughter and choices that threaten to undo both their lives. The setup focuses on parental responsibility, the consequences of past crimes, and a high-stakes situation that forces the protagonist to weigh loyalty, protection, and legal peril.

A U.S. Marshal travels to a remote island hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of a patient who is also a serial killer.

An energetic near-future story that interleaves a fast-paced real-world plot with a pervasive virtual-reality environment and a memetic/linguistic threat.

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 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.

Set in a rural Southern backwater, the novel follows Miranda Crabtree, who runs contraband for a local preacher-sheriff to survive and to protect an old woman and a child who fled his home years earlier. Miranda faces escalating danger when she’s asked to make one last, fraught delivery involving that same preacher.

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 speculative epidemic causes people to lose their shadows and, with them, memories and names; survivors must cope with erasing personal history while some exploit or hunt the newly nameless. The setup focuses on how memory failure reshapes relationships, social order, and survival choices in a collapsing world.

A pragmatic private investigator in India is drawn into a case when a household servant disappears; the investigation unfolds through interviews, local social detail, and procedural clue-gathering.

A mother receives a call telling her child has been kidnapped and that she must both pay and kidnap another child to free her — and the release depends on a continuing chain where each victimizer becomes a victim.

A contemporary father and husband faces an escalating crisis when ordinary family life collides with an inexplicable disappearance and supernatural forces. The book tracks how personal grief and a search for answers intersect with occult intrusion, putting domestic stability, identity, and safety under pressure.

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 murder is discovered on the grounds of Belle Vie, a working antebellum plantation in Louisiana that now operates as an event venue. The estate’s manager becomes entangled in the official investigation and the local upheaval that follows, with labor relations and the plantation’s history intensifying the stakes.

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.

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

A retired art professor and collector secretly works as a professional assassin. He is pulled back into service to avenge the murder of an American agent, a mission that entwines high-altitude mountaineering with clandestine espionage and a fixation on art objects.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

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.

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.

An investigative journalist and an exceptional young hacker appear again as a new murder case and linked criminal activity draw both into a maze of secrets. The novel sets a procedural inquiry—murders, trafficking, and corruption—against a cold urban backdrop and follows attempts to unravel who is responsible and why.

Angela Toussaint returns to her late grandmother’s home in a small Washington town and confronts a legacy of grief, violent history, and supernatural threat tied to that house.

Set around a Mexican hacienda, the narrative follows characters entangled in domestic power, inherited secrets, and unexplained phenomena. The central pressure is an escalating, intimate threat—social and supernatural—that forces private histories and loyalties into the open.

A middle-aged woman in an affluent Atlanta suburb watches a striking modern house built next door and becomes convinced something malevolent resides within it.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.