By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden's incubus half-brother, comes up with a plan to save Harry from the evil Stygian Sisterhood while continuing to conceal his involvement in the Oblivion War (From the Publisher).”

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Joe Ledger Novels

“When a team of killers breaks into the Department of Military Sciences and steals the world’s most dangerous weapons, Joe Ledger and Echo Team rush to stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from unleashing terror across the country (From the Publisher).”

By Johan Theorin

Winner of Sweden’s best crime novel award. On an idyllic island off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh.

By Stephen King

After four and a half years in a coma, Johnny Smith awakens with a knowledge of the death zone and an ability to see the future, a horrible power that he does not want and cannot escape.

Became the TV show: The Dead Zone.

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

You’d think there’d be a little more action for the only professional wizard listed in the Chicago phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn’t been able to dredge up any kind of work: magical, mundane, or menial. Just when it looks like he can’t afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise. There’s a brutally mutilated corpse, and monstrous animal markings at the scene. Not to mention that the killing took place on the night of a full moon. Harry knows exactly where this case is headed. Take three guesses—and the first two don’t count...

By Stephen King

The story of a convicted killer on death row and one of the prison guards assigned there.

Became the movie: The Green Mile.

By Isabel Cañas
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solórzano’s proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his first wife’s death.

By Shirley Jackson

This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena, but Hill House is gathering its powers and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

By Frank Peretti

Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

By Josh Malerman
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Discovering an extraordinary house at the bottom of a lake in their Michigan community, two teens fall passionately in love while struggling to choose between the property’s ethereal freedoms and the safety of the world above.

By Nancy Werlin

When seventeen–year–old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.

By Jennifer McMahon
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

When an inspired effort to build her dream home is overshadowed by discoveries about her rural property's violent past, a former history teacher becomes obsessed with the stories of three generations of local women who died under suspicious circumstances.

By Sarah Waters
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Waters reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale … (Publishers Weekly).”

By Mark Z. Danielewski

A family relocates and discovers that their new home seems to be without boundaries.

By Joe Hill

When Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her son back.

By Jason Starr
Series The Pack

New to the role of stay-at-home-parent, Simon Burns befriends a tight-knit group of other dads at the playground whose warm welcome into their "pack" may have been literal when he begins to suspect that they are actually werewolves.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“The only wizard in the Chicago phone book, Harry is given the task of investigating rumors of black magic in the Windy City, while, at the same time, searching for some malevolent entities that feed on fear who have been set loose on Chicago (From the Publisher).”

By Daniel O'Malley
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A high-ranking member of a secret organization that battles supernatural forces wakes up in a London park with no memory, no idea who she is, and with a letter that provides instructions to help her uncover a far-reaching conspiracy.

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter.

By Heather Graham
Series Krewe of Hunters Series

When a congressman's media assistant abruptly quits her job and goes missing on her way home, FBI agent Meg Murray teams up with special agent Matt Bosworth to investigate a serial killer with ties to a political conspiracy.

By Sonja Condit

A pregnant woman who moves into her dream home discovers she must solve the mystery of a decades-old murder to rid herself of a ghostly little boy and save her unborn child.