Books like Hush by Anne Frasier

Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black youth in poverty on Chicago's South Side, becomes embroiled in a brutal murder and must face the consequences of his violent actions in Richard Wright's novel 'Native Son' (1940).

Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

Alan Jacobson’s thriller follows FBI profiler Special Agent Karen Vail as she hunts the Dead Eyes Killer, whose unprecedented murders threaten her career and personal life—uncovering secrets that could cost her everything.

A young woman discovers her perfect love turns into a dark and violent reality, forcing her to confront her fears and rebuild her life in a new city.

When the FBI’s profiler Sophie Anderson is summoned to Tucson, she confronts a ruthless gang, The Murderers' Club, who run a deadly reality‑TV show that kills a contestant every week.

Former Homicide detective Jude Fontaine, liberated after three years of captivity, now uses her heightened body‑language skills to track a killer murdering young women, while her partner suspects her sanity.

FBI profiler Sayer Altair races against a brilliant serial killer obsessed with cages, as a young woman’s starved body is discovered in a Washington, D.C., abandoned house basement.

"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.

In 1931 Chicago, female reporter Emily Thornhill investigates the brutal murders of Asta Eicher and her three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia, partnering with the financier of the case to uncover the truth.

Sheriff Nick Morrelli of Platte City, Nebraska, must outwit a serial killer’s legacy when FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell takes over an investigation that could change his career and family ties.

A former TV anchorwoman, Ali Reynolds, suspects the husband of her contractor’s spouse in a brutal murder and fights to prove his innocence amid disbelief from her detective boyfriend and danger from the true killer.