Books like Killing Hour by Andrew Gross

Two ex‑Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, chase a serial killer who imitates infamous murders, while protecting a man's innocence in a high‑stakes burglary that threatens a dysfunctional aristocratic family.

A gripping thriller about a family dealing with their teenage son's potential suicide after a friend's suicide, with a twist of unexpected brutality.

A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.

Max Walker, the family's golden boy, discovers his intersex identity amid family secrets and political ambitions, forcing him to confront love, identity, and the limits of his parents’ secrecy.

A lightning‑fast thriller where a National Archives staffer uncovers a buried arm that threatens the presidency and reveals a 200‑year‑old secret society’s hidden purpose.

In Saxon Falls, a second teenage girl vanishes while a Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent uncovers chilling similarities between her and Kelsey Willard, the first missing victim, forcing the Willard family to confront long‑hidden secrets in a race against a possible serial killer.

Detective Constable Cat Kinsella investigates a brutal murder that forces her to confront a family secret, questioning whether her father’s lies conceal a lifetime of crimes.

At Wyndemere House, Fern and her mother serve a wealthy family while their lives are reshaped by a new wife’s strict rules and a forbidden friendship with the Finchson son. The rigid class hierarchy leaves them powerless to protect their future.

A single mother in Washington, D.C., deals with the secrets of her family's past and the threat to her safety and stability as she begins a new life with her children and a tightly knit neighborhood community.

THhe odor of familiar perfume greeted him when he turned the knob on the door of Fay's bedroom, and in that first instant when he saw the limp, crumpled figure in the wicker chair he knew instinctively that his wife was dead. Dave Wallace had come to Trinidad to forget the past and his scheming, predatory estranged wife, Fay. But Fay had reneged on their divorce agreement and had followed him to the island, had moved in on him bag and baggage and begun running around with three different men. Now she was dead-strangled with her own necklace-and Wallace, who had quarreled with her only an hour before, still bore the scratch marks from her fingernails on the back of his hand. He knew that Fay had been winding up her affairs and planning to leave, that she had been playing her favorite game of blackmail, and that someone was paying her off. Steve Rand, the charter-boat captain, Neil Benedict, the gambler and night-club owner, and Joe Anderson, the real estate operator, had good reason to hate her. Yet of the men in Fay's life, he himself became at once the most logical suspect. For there had been another time when he had resorted to violence and attacked his wife with murder in his heart. If this became known while the police were investigating her death, who would believe he was innocent?