Books like Child of silence by Abigail Padgett

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

A young detective battles for her life in Half Moon Bay during the Fourth of July celebration.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta confronts a flawless, serial sniper whose copper‑stained bullets murder without trace, forcing her to chase the killer from New Jersey to Florida while uncovering a shocking family secret.

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?As each step closer to the truth exposes yet another layer of deceit, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil resides, protected--until now--by the power of silence.

A San Francisco attorney returns to his Ohio hometown to defend his best friend against a murder charge, confronting a decades‑old tragedy and the secrets that tie past to present.

A young girl discovers her best‑friend mother may be both a thief and a liar, revealing a secret that reshapes their bond.

In an old people's home in California, sleuths Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate sift through garbage to find a killer. The novel is at once a mystery and a look at everyday life in a retirement home, with its boredom and the fear of incapacity. By the author of Ho-Ho Homicide (cover)

After Silence is Nancy Venable Raine’s powerful memoir of her 1985 rape and the decade of trauma that followed, exposing society’s silence and the long‑term psychological and physiological effects of sexual violence.

A Moscow security officer in Stalin’s Soviet Union must chase a serial killer while his own life is threatened by the very state he serves. Suspense, paranoia, and family drama collide in this thriller.

Casey Watson, a foster mother, takes in two nine‑year‑olds—Jenson and autistic Georgie—while navigating the challenges of foster care and her own family's experience with autism.

A widowed nanny in 1930s California unravels a web of suspicion and affection as she battles rumors that her employer killed his wife and faces a sudden arrest that could change their lives forever.