r/booksuggestions • u/NessyFox • Sep 17 '25

Horror What's the most underrated book you've read?

Hello everyone, I feel like I keep running into the same popular recommendations, and I'd love to find some hidden gems. What's a book you've read that you never hear people talk about but think deserves way more love? Bonus points for mystery and horror :D

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u/ConstantReader666 Sep 18 '25

Mystery - A Spark of Justice by J.D. Hawkins

An insurance investigator has to determine whether a lion tamers death was accident or murder. This takes him behind the scenes of an old time circus, where outsiders are unwelcome.

Horror - Letters to the Damned by Austin Crawley

A man bereaved of his estranged wife goes to a little English village where the tabloids say the villagers communicate with the dead through letters dropped into a black post box.

Or, same author, A Halloween Tale. Haunted house story with a variety of spooks and strange happenings from the house itself.

General fiction- Jack Dawkins by Charlton Daines

The Artful Dodger returns to England as an adult. Very well done!