Paranormal Mysteries for Halloween

Best known for The Atlas Six, Blake brings us a fun paranormal with the Masters of Death. It’s hard to sell a house with a ghost in it, especially if that ghost refuses to leave until their murder has been solved. Viola “Vi” Marek, a real estate agent who happens to be a vampire, seeks the help of a medium, Fox D’Mora, who is more fake than real. But there’s no question he has incredible connections…to the God of Death. Vi and Fox have to find a way to work together so Vi can finally get this unwanted inhabitant out of the house.

I love great worldbuilding in urban fantasy and this series does it well. Set in Edinburgh, Ropa Moyo can speak to ghosts and supports her family by passing messages from the dead to the living. But soon she hears about someone stealing children and draining them of their life force and realizes that these children are much like herself, on the margins of society. She decides that she has to figure out who is behind the awful kidnappings before it’s too late. The fifth book in the Edinburgh Nights series, Secrets of the First School, came out on October 16, 2025.

Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle is like Jessica Fletcher without even having to leave her small town. She has a nose for solving murders, but she’s starting to wonder if something is off—there’s a lot of murder going on for a small town. Then she finds herself as the number one suspect for a murder, and her cat, Lord Thomas Cromwell, seems to be possessed by a snarky demon. It appears that there may be some supernatural entity at work here (besides the cat), and Sherry is going to have to stop it with the help of a new priest and other friends in The Village Library Demon Hunting Society. Because of course, the librarian is going to save the day.

If you need some fun and joy, Misty Simon’s work is the right place to go. Iona Hoover thought that working at her aunt’s pet treat shop would be quiet and peaceful. But when a man comes in, drops a brooch, and leaves, Iona tries to find him to return the brooch. Instead of a happy reunion, she finds him dead on a park bench. On top of that, Iona is visited by the Silver Bettys, whose name was inspired by Golden Girls. They are four ghosts that she thought were imaginary friends growing up. Together, they have to get to the bottom of this crime, while also keeping her aunt’s bakery afloat. The second book in the A Horsing Around Mystery series Blinkers and Blunders came out this summer. Simon also has other series that include magic, such as the Charmed Inn Mysteries which feature bibliomancy!