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Halloween is a time of mystery and mischief. Here are some hair-raising novels that will keep you on your toes, ranging from thrillers and murder mysteries to horror stories both supernatural and not.

Known for intensely searching memoirs including "Inheritance," Dani Shapiro comes back to fiction with "Signal Fires" after a long, hard road.

Bethanne Patrick's October highlights include the biographies of Bob Dylan and Samuel Adams, new fiction from John Irving and Celeste Ng and plenty more.

Bethanne Patrick's September highlights include sequels from Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer along with exciting debuts.

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

Join book club nights with Alta Adams chef Keith Corbin and bestselling novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Bethanne Patrick's August highlights include fiction from Mohsin Hamid and Marianne Wiggins, a sequel to "Dopesick" and a revisionist feminist history.

'Gods of Want,' author K-Ming Chang's follow-up to her dazzling debut, 'Bestiary,' collects stories of young immigrants haunted by ghosts and longings.

Bethanne Patrick's July highlights include romance, sci-fi and sacrilegious hijinks, as well as probing memoirs and a new Harvey Weinstein exposé.

In Joseph Han's hilarious first novel, 'Nuclear Family,' the Cho family's lunch chain is under threat after a supernatural incident at the Korean DMZ.