No Rest for the Wicked

By Rachel Louise Adams

Book Overview

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. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250362113
• ISBN13: 9781250362117
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Dark happenings in small town

I will admit, I really wanted to read this because of the cover which was nicely spooky and I thought it might have a supernatural bit with cats and Halloween. That was not the case. Yes, there are cats and it does happen around Halloween time both in the present and past events but they are not the main part of this case of the missing former senator and what horrible thing that happened twenty years ago in this small town that goes crazy at Halloween. It was an interesting case, especially with Dolores returning to the town but unable to remember much of her childhood there. Good tension. Her working with the the two FBI agents and the subsequent murders of other people in the town definitely kept my interest because I just had to know what had happened and if my guess was correct. I had it mostly correct of what happened, but the reveal of who the killer was was a big surprise. So, if you are looking for a police procedural type mystery with family trauma, estranged child returning home, and dark secrets kept hidden for years that are finally brought to the light, then you will enjoy this book. If you are looking for supernatural and cats, this is not what you are looking for (unless you like feral cats that have a small subplot in finding a body). Not a bad debut but very misleading cover.