No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams

No Rest for the Wicked

A Novel

Rachel Louise Adams, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Macmillan Audio

Minotaur · Print & ebook · September 16, 2025

A USA Today Bestseller With an expert hand, Rachel Louise Adams’s debut No Rest for the Wicked reads like an edge of your seat, heart-pounding scary movie.

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Who it’s for
For when you want a psychological thriller with a sharp edge and a little mischief.
Genres
Suspense, Supernatural Horror, Small-Town Fiction
Published
Minotaur, September 16, 2025

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A USA Today Bestseller With an expert hand, Rachel Louise Adams’s debut No Rest for the Wicked reads like an edge of your seat, heart-pounding scary movie. In one Halloween obsessed Midwestern town, everyone’s on red alert after a local politician goes missing. Little do they know it’s only the beginning. It’s been close to twenty years since forensic pathologist Dolores Hawthorne left her hometown of Little Horton, Wisconsin.

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The town is famous for its Halloween celebrations, but also its history of violent deaths linked to the holiday. To Dolores, it’s the place she fled, family, bad memories, and all. Until the FBI calls to tell her that her father--the former mayor turned US Senator--is missing under mysterious circumstances. Some people count to ten to wake up from a nightmare. Dolores always counts the bones of her head instead: sphenoid, frontal, lacrimal. But no matter how many times she counts them, it doesn’t change the fact that her father is missing, that his final words of warning to her were to trust no one, and that now, the rest of her family is giving Dolores a chilling welcome. With Halloween fast approaching, Dolores must face the past she left behind before it’s too late.

Sharp Edges

For when you want a psychological thriller with a sharp edge and a little mischief.

Come here for

  • edgy, playful thriller energy
  • amateur-sleuth texture with women-detective focus

Expect

  • fast immersion
  • category cues you can sink into

Where it sits

Suspense36%
Small-Town Fiction24%
Supernatural Horror16%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • British Mystery
  • Suspense
  • Small-Town Fiction
Authors
Rachel Louise Adams, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Macmillan Audio
Publisher
Minotaur
Published
September 16, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
British Mystery