Books like Moment of Silence by Anna Dean

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

A pioneering English detective story in which a priceless diamond, once stolen from a Hindu idol and presented to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, disappears again, sparking intrigue and danger.

Set in the 1830s Midlands, George Eliot’s Middlemarch intertwines village life, politics, and the struggles of its characters to explore social reform, gender roles, and community hypocrisy.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

When train passengers overhear fresh‑prison inmates flirting, a teenage girl’s instinct is triggered—and a year later a mysterious disappearance turns into a chilling stalker threat.

After Sir Edward Grey is murdered, his widow Julia partners with private investigator Nicholas Brisbane to uncover the brutal truth behind his death, confronting London’s hidden dangers and her own painful revelations.

Walter Mosley's acclaimed detective series continues as former K9 officer Leonid McGill navigates political intrigue, family burdens, and a missing‑person case in modern Manhattan.

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.

An unfinished mystery where choirmaster John Jasper, his love for pupil Rosa Bud, and her fiancé Edwin Drood entangle in intrigue and disappearance.

In "Forget Me Not," Ally and Elijah navigate the haunting echoes of their high school, confronting personal despair and the supernatural while seeking reasons to live.

In 1806 Richmond, Miss Dido Kent becomes a budding sleuth when a neighbour’s sudden death bequeaths a fortune to her nephew, leading her to investigate a possible overdose and uncover hidden secrets of upper‑class life.

When a local girl vanishes in the quiet town of Brindle, reporter Todd Fielding must uncover a decades‑old pattern of disappearances, despite the town’s indifference and a looming threat of silence for those who dig too deep.