9 Best Halloween Mystery Novels for Spooky Season Sleuthing

Starting off with a traditional (and the inspiration for the A Haunting in Venice film), this installment of the Hercule Poirot sequence is centered round a celebration chaperoned by thriller writer Ariadne Oliver. When one of many friends — a youngster who claimed she as soon as witnessed a homicide — is killed, Poirot is named in to each catch the killer and examine whether or not there was fact to the sufferer’s claims.

Recently tailored right into a Hallmark movie, this paranormal cozy thriller makes for wonderful Halloween studying and watching! The last item violinist Gethsemane Brown expects after transferring right into a quaint Irish village is to conduct a homicide investigation.

But when she discovers that her home is haunted by an alleged assassin — whose unrestful spirit swears he was framed — she has no selection if she desires any peace and quiet. The killer is certainly nonetheless at massive, and the extra Gethsemane, the extra she places herself in grave hazard.

As a reader, I’ve by no means been happier than seeing this sequence lastly get the find it irresistible deserves on TikTok. It has *the* good autumnal vibes, set at a comfortable New England bed-and-breakfast run by two witch sisters who couldn’t be extra completely different. Their niece, Brynn Warren, has lately returned residence following the sudden dying of her husband. While mourning his loss, Brynn should additionally reconnect along with her repressed powers to clear her aunt’s identify when one of many B&B friends is discovered lifeless.

The finest manner I’ve heard this sequence described is Gilmore Girls meets Practical Magic. It’s intelligent, atmospheric, and filled with memorable characters. It’s a superb option to get into the Halloween spirit whereas performing some armchair sleuthing.

Claire and Sophie are inseparable finest buddies—partially as a result of Claire is a medium and Sophie is a ghost, murdered ten years in the past whereas they have been each in highschool. When Claire is employed to carry out a seance at a rich household’s English mansion for their matriarch’s eightieth birthday, she discovers a troubled spirit on the premises and takes it upon herself to (with Sophie’s assist) uncover who among the many household is a assassin.

Miriam Quiñones-Smith is a Cuban American meals anthropologist who hosts a cooking present in Miami and has lately found her knack for fixing crimes.

Unfortunately, whereas she doesn’t search instances out, they appear to search out her when she’s at her busiest. In between Halloween festivities, she should examine the dying of a neighborhood chef who was employed to cater on the Women’s Club fall gala. Read to the top for themed recipes!

While mourning the lack of her husband, Odessa Jones decides to shut their shared catering enterprise and make a profession grow to be actual property. All this whereas additionally managing her psychic powers, which give her visions on the most surprising instances.

Thankfully, Odessa has her eccentric Aunt Phoenix to consolation her and assist her handle her second sight…and help her with some newbie sleuthing when she receives a imaginative and prescient that the prime suspect for native homicide is harmless.

With a tagline like, “Be gay, solve crimes, take naps,” you already know you’re in for a pleasant thriller. Meet the Undetectables, a coven of witches (and one ghost, who additionally occurs to be their first consumer…no, the case didn’t go effectively) who moonlight as a detective company of their small city.

When they’re referred to as to face off towards the Whistler — a supernatural serial killer — they need to unravel the clues left behind shortly or danger changing into a part of the physique depend. Metaphorically talking, in fact, for the ghostly member of their coven, however a really actual risk for the remainder of them.

Evelyn Grace is an heiress in Nineteen Fifties New York City fighting agoraphobia following her mom’s dying. While she calls her father’s Pinnacle Hotel residence, she’s making an attempt to increase the variety of locations she feels snug in and make new buddies.

Throwing a Halloween fundraiser gala with the assistance of her boyfriend, Mac Cooper, looks as if simply the factor to get out of her consolation zone whereas nonetheless having enjoyable…till a partygoer is discovered lifeless and the night’s visitor checklist turns into homicide suspects.

This paranormal thriller is ready round an natural apothecary in North Carolina, the place Alexandra Daniels hopes to reconnect with the estranged household she hasn’t seen since her mom’s dying.

Hoping to search out closure, Alexandra settles into life in Bellamy Bay, solely for her newfound security to be challenged when a buyer is poisoned, and her Aunt Lidia is framed for the crime. Now Alexandra should catch the actual killer whereas investigating her household historical past and uncover whether or not there’s any fact to the rumor that they have been descended from water witches.