HPL 2026 Mystery & Suspense

"From million-copy and internationally bestselling author Lucy Clarke, The Castaways is an adrenaline-fueled thriller about two sisters torn apart when a vacation turns unthinkably deadly-perfect for fans of Long Bright River and Lost. Two years ago, a small plane disappeared over Fiji. For Erin, it's been two years of obsessing over every detail, refusing to move forward even as life does. Her sister Lori was on that plane, and Erin was meant to...

"Katelyn Thorsen, known as KT to her friends, is an independent journalist tracking down the story of her career -- a group of white nationalists who have infiltrated the local political culture of the Pacific Northwest. But these are not people to be trifled with and the story of her career may quickly turn out to be the last story of her life. Fortunately, Peter Ash has arrived in town to look out for KT at the request of his girlfriend, June Cassidy....

"New York City, 1992. Meet Parker Snow, the most tenacious reporter for a tabloid paper that thrives on juicy gossip over hard-hitting news: the New York Street. She also has a big black mark on her record from her last street crime story--and a habit of taking a few too many pills to erase the memory. Since the fall of the USSR, a new crop of Russian criminals have been arriving in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. It's now Parker's job to cover them. But...

"New York City, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is dead, and famed detective Lillian Pentecost is under arrest for his murder. Means, motive, and a mountain of evidence leave everyone believing she's guilty. Everyone, that is, except Willowjean "Will" Parker, who knows for a fact her boss is innocent. She just doesn't know if she can prove it. With Lillian locked away in the House of D-New York City's...

Simon Gutmunsson is on the loose...Since the disastrous events of the College Killer case, the FBI is coming to terms with the fact that while catching one sociopath, they've released another. Chillingly manipulative, frighteningly intelligent, and wholly insane, Simon Gutmunsson is the worst of the worst. Now he's free, and on the run with his twin sister, Kristin, and nobody in the FBI is smart enough to keep up...Travis Bell's last investigation...

"Veronica and Stoker are practically dying for a new adventure but when their wish is granted, they find themselves up against a secret society and a darkly seductive duo in this landmark historical mystery from beloved New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. When the corpse of an entitled young man is found entirely drained of blood in a carriage next to Highgate Cemetery, Veronica's interest is piqued. And then...

"A remarkable trio whose lives were cracked wide open by their husbands' crimes unite to catch a serial killer in this dazzlingly captivating novel. Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted serial killers. In sun-drenched California during the summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands' brutal crimes. With their exes-some of California's most...

"Castle meets We Own This City in the fifth installment of the Ashe Cayne series as the smooth Chicago private eye stumbles into the city's internecine (and deadly) world of politics"-- Provided by publisher.

"Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke's iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou. When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his world and family are about to change. With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department who is grappling with sexist and...

"From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, "wisecracking and wonderful" crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family-or murder-wrecks everything. Dahlia "Doll" Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she's the star of her own stage at McPhee's Tavern. As part of Chicago's-yes, Chicago's-country...