10 Atmospheric Mysteries & Thrillers

Mae Pruett, LA’s “black-bag” publicist, works for one of the most sought-after crisis PR firms who protect some of the richest and most powerful clients. Her boss gets gunned down in a random attack and Mae takes it upon herself to investigate what happened. Her search takes her all around LA portraying a myriad of human lives and what it means when we’re faced with impossible odds.

In Crimea 1855, a serial killer terrorizes Florence Nightingale and her nurses. When the main suspect turns up dead, Inspector Charles Field closes the case. But twelve years later, Field discovers a woman’s body with her mouth covered by the killer’s signature embroidered rose. Is this the killer or a copycat? With his own family now at risk, Field must race against time to stop the killer before more bodies turn up.

Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she’s running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as ‘The Saucer People’; a space-age, evangelist cult who believe their compound to be the site of an extraterrestrial Second Coming.
Along with his brother, Felix, and beautiful, randy journalist Amelia “Scrappy” Moon, Charlie uncovers strange and frightening details about the compound (read: a massive, doomsday storehouse of weapons, a leashed chimpanzee!) When the body of their key informer is found dead with his arms ripped out of their sockets, Charlie knows he’s in danger but remains dogged in his quest to rescue Meg.
Brimming with colorful characters and Lansdale’s characteristic bounce, this rollicking crime novel examines the insidious rise of fringe groups and those under their sway with black comedy and glints of pathos.

In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence.
Elsewhere, Jessie and her toddler, Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi/Louisiana line, in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father. Holt, Jace's father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. In only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world.