Allison Buccola is the author of Catch Her When She Falls. She has a JD from the University of Chicago and lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and their two young children.
The Family Inside (2025) Katie Garner "Set in a crumbling manor house and brimming with secrets, The Family Inside is irresistible Gothic suspense. An eerie, atmospheric mystery with twists around every dark corner."
The Body Next Door (2024) Maia Chance "A twisty, surrealist cult story...full of secrets, betrayal, and deception, The Body Next Door kept me guessing until the very end."
Watch it Burn (2024) Kristen Bird "NXIVM meets Southern suspense in Watch It Burn, a propulsive dive into a self-help group with disturbing secrets and a growing hold over a small Texas town. Gripping, timely, and ominous, this one is not to be missed."
Anything for a Friend (2023) Kathleen M Willett "An old friend's return threatens to unearth dark truths in Kathleen Willett's newest page-turner. Twisty and full of suspense, Anything for a Friend explores deception, the push and pull of complicated friendships, and the cost of keeping a secret. I tore through it."
Murder by Degrees (2023) Ritu Mukerji "Suspenseful and captivating. Ritu Mukerji brings the operating theaters, drawing rooms, and back alleys of nineteenth-century Philadelphia to life in this darkly atmospheric mystery."
The Good Ones (2023) Polly Stewart "An unsettling mystery about a young mother's disappearance and the cost of centering ourselves in someone else's story. Dark, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, The Good Ones kept me turning pages late into the night."
The Hitman's Daughter (2022) (Mave Michael, book 1) Carolyne Topdjian "A tense and atmospheric gothic mystery with lots of unexpected twists. Topdjian brings the Chateau du Ciel to life, with its haunted library, the twisting labyrinth of tunnels beneath it, and the suspicious cast of residents and guests whose pasts are intertwined with the hotel's dark history."
