Ghosts in the Pines

Ghosts in the Pines by Scott Eubanks, a Thriller release out on October 20, 2026.

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Ghosts in the Pines Release Date: October 20, 2026

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A missing sister. A frozen town. And the ghost of a twenty-two-year-old cold case crashed straight through the living room wall.

โ€œThereโ€™s nothing better than a twisty, well-written suspense novel. From the first sentence on, this novel gives such a real sense of North Idaho, with a great cast that builds so nicely to a breathless climax. I loved it.โ€

โ€”Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and Edgar Award winner

The remote ski town of Cedarpoint, Idaho, is enduring the coldest winter on record. Coffee shop owner Mira Hawkshaw is melting down in private. Sarcastic, razor-sharp, and fiercely independent, Mira is surviving a divorce from the local Chief of Police by drinking too much, sleeping with the wrong people, and letting her dangerous edges show. One of the finest hunters in Compass County, sheโ€™s been turning those instincts on herself lately.

Then her older sister, Sarahโ€”a devoted hospice nurse and the townโ€™s resident saintโ€”vanishes into the biting cold.

The police are left baffled by the only clue left behind: a red โ€™94 Bronco deliberately wrecked inside their family cabin. Itโ€™s an impossible calling card. Itโ€™s the exact same make, model, and year of the vehicle their father drove into oblivion when he abandoned the family twenty-two years ago.

In a small town built on old lies and deep-seated shame, local gossip says her father fled the country. Miraโ€™s instincts tell her something far more sinister is buried in the woods.

Unable to trust the compromised local policeโ€”and with her soon-to-be ex-husband tracking her every moveโ€”Mira launches her own hunt into the frozen wilderness.

The deeper she digs, the more she realizes that whatever claimed her father might have come back for her sister. And if Mira can’t discover what happened, sheโ€™ll be the next one to join the ghosts.

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โ€œScott Eubanksโ€™s gritty, exquisitely plotted page-turner pulled me deep into a world of secrets, murder, and a pulpy Pacific Northwest setting. The tension never lets up, and every twist feels earned. These characters will stay with me for a long time.”

โ€”Tamara Berry, Edgar Awardโ€“winning author of the By the Book mysteries

โ€œScott Eubanks is a latter-day Dennis Lehane. He perfectly captures the intertwining relationships of small-town Idaho while crafting a gripping mystery.โ€

โ€” Frank Za๏ฌro, award-winning author of the River City series

Unflinching and dripping with atmospheric tension, Ghosts in the Pines is a gritty Pacific Northwest Gothic noir perfect for fans of Tana Frenchโ€™s sharp character psychology, S.A. Cosbyโ€™s visceral prose, and C.J. Boxโ€™s wilderness suspense.

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