An early post to take advantage of Halloween. Thought I’d have a bit of fun and list some authors and books that skew crime fiction toward the supernatural and the uncanny, Have fun!
Criminal profiler Dan Garvie has lived in the long shadow of a childhood horror: at a seaside fair, he crossed paths with a notorious killer and barely escaped.
Decades later, his father dies under suspicious circumstances, drawing Dan back to the isolated island community he left behind. Old anxieties surge as fresh violence ripples through the town, and whispers revive the legend of a figure who lures the vulnerable and vanishes like smoke.
Chasing threads through police files, grief-stricken locals, and memories he’d rather forget, Dan begins to doubt his own instincts—and the stories his family told. Is the monster from his nightmares real, a copycat, or trauma wearing a mask?
As storms gather, the investigation narrows to a few haunted households and one terrible choice. Alex North blends intimate father–son drama with relentless suspense in a novel about memory’s traps, inherited fear, and the peril of looking away entirely.
July 1995: Newlyweds April and Eddie take a wrong turn on the way to their bargain-bin honeymoon and spot a lone woman on a deserted stretch called Atticus Line. She bleeds out in their car before they can reach the hospital, and the Coldlake Falls police promptly treat the outsiders as suspects, and witnesses to a curse.
For decades, strangers have died along that road; locals whisper about the Lost Girl and a truck that appears out of nowhere. To clear their names, April and Eddie dig into old case files, roadside memorials, and the town’s buried loyalties, confronting corrupt cops, grieving families, and their own haunted pasts. Each lead tightens the snare, pushing them toward the truth stalking Atticus Line.
Part small-town noir, part ghost story, Murder Road is a tense, compassionate, propulsive thriller about trauma, marriage, and the stories communities tell to survive—and the ones that won’t stay buried.
Professor David Ullman doesn’t believe in demons. He just makes a living studying them. A leading expert on Milton’s Paradise Lost, David is used to talking about the Devil as metaphor. Then a mysterious stranger invites him to Venice to witness “a phenomenon.”
What he sees there shatters everything he thinks is real. By the time he returns, his young daughter Tess has been taken. The message left behind is impossible: follow the clues, or lose her forever.
The Demonologist is a literary supernatural thriller about a father’s desperation, the seductive voice of darkness, and the awful price of being told: you were chosen
The Gathering unfolds in Deadhart, a remote Alaskan town reeling after a teenager’s throat was torn out. Barbara Atkins—an investigator from the Forensic Vampyr Anthropology Department—is dispatched to determine whether the killer came from the nearby legally protected vampyr colony.
Snowbound tensions flare between townsfolk and colony. As prejudice, politics, and hunger entwine, the case twists toward an unsettling truth about monsters—human and otherwise.
Tudor blends procedural snap with icy dread, delivering a fiercely contemporary, morally thorny vampire thriller.
On a neurology rotation meant to teach her the measured art of Parkinson’s care, resident Dr. Hope Sze instead meets a patient who murmurs, “I shot him six times in the head—but I didn’t kill him.”
The confession yanks Hope from charting into a vortex where medicine, myth, and madness intersect. When a doomsday cult obsessed with Lovecraft’s Cthulhu storms the emergency department, claiming the world will end today,
Hope must triage chaos while decoding a riddle of brain injury, delusion, and calculated violence. Sloth—human inertia, moral drift, the urge to look away—becomes her most insidious enemy as colleagues freeze, systems stall, and the clock drains away.
~ June Lorraine Roberts
Murder in Common is #21 on the Feedspot Top 80 Crime Novel Website
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