Books like The guardians by Andrew Pyper

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.

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

A young scholar uncovers a labyrinthine family legacy, tracing the truth of Vlad the Impaler and the myth of Dracula across centuries and borders, risking life and sanity to confront an ancient evil.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

A chilling tale of an eleven‑year‑old's demonic possession and the two priests who confront it.

Detective Sean Duffy in 1982 Northern Ireland investigates a torso found in a suitcase, uncovering a tangled web of US troops, IRA violence, betrayal, and his own conflicted loyalties.

A New England family saga follows Loo and her father, Samuel Hawley, as they navigate a fishing village, hidden family secrets, and the lingering shadow of Hawley's former life as a professional criminal.

FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich race to investigate the murder of a judge during a high-profile trial, but their investigation turns deadly.

Two best friends uncover a dangerous secret hidden in the attic, forcing them to confront a murderous past that threatens their small town and their own safety.

A suspenseful tale of a professor and his 12-year-old daughter in Venice, where they uncover a terrifying secret.

When a murder echoing a cold case rocks Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to uncover the killer's identity.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Four-year-old missing child found in grave 20 years later sparks a mystery in small Ohio town.

Pitch the boogeyman spreads fear to keep children away from the Guardians, forcing the Guardians—embodied by Good and Evil, Heroes, and fantasy characters—to unite and enlist a reluctant helper, Jack Frost, to restore hope.

After surviving death, Danny Orchard can’t escape his twin sister’s ghost, who stalks him with a murderous intent, leading him to confront a haunting beyond the afterlife for one final chance at peace.

A mystery set in 1969 Connecticut, Captain Carmine Delmonico investigates a series of murders connected to a lethal toxin theft and a scientist accused of framing the killer.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

Consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton investigates a mutilated murder in remote Shetland and uncovers an ancient legend that turns her life into a lethal game.

When Julie is nearly hit by a hit‑and‑run, her friends uncover a mysterious presence guiding her toward enlightenment, forcing them into a battle against a devious deception.

A journalist in London uncovers a decades‑old murder mystery tied to her grandmother's wartime past, leading her on a dangerous transatlantic quest for truth amid double‑crossing allies and hidden enemies.

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.