Books like The twisted root by Anne Perry

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.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

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.

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.

A Victorian detective with no memory, William Monk, investigates the brutal murder of a crime‑era hero in London’s elite circles, uncovering secrets that threaten his own past and the city's fragile order.

Detective William Monk investigates the murder of arms dealer Daniel Alberton while a romantic entanglement between Alberton’s daughter and the American Lyman Breeland threatens to eclipse the crime.

A family drama turns deadly when the beloved concubine of Egyptian priest Imhotep is murdered in 2000 BC, sparking suspicion and vengeance that unravel the household.

Sir Oliver Rathbone, a London barrister, takes a case of alleged slander from Countess Zorah Rostova, only to discover a deeper murder mystery involving the late Prince Friedrich and his vanished wife, Princess Gisela.

In a tense Victorian London, Inspector William Monk investigates a brutal murder of an aristocratic girl, aided by former nurse Hester Latterly as he navigates a web of amnesia and political intrigue.

Detective Erika Foster follows a chilling trail from a frozen body in a South London park to the strangulated remains of three prostitutes, uncovering a sinister network beneath the city’s glittering surface.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

A Breach of Promise tells the story of wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert suing for their beautiful daughter Zillah's rejection by architect Killian Melville, who adamantly refuses to marry her.

An Inspector in London: Detectives William Monk and Caleb Stonefield are drawn into the mysterious disappearance of Angus Stonefield and the dark secrets of their twin brother's life.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

After a man’s sudden death, his assistant inherits a curious collection of dropped items and a mission to return them to their owners while building new bonds in a quiet English town.

"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 Anne Perry’s Victorian London mystery, two women are strangled in a famed artist’s studio. Investigators William Monk and his wife hunt clues to clear the suspected Viennese surgeon, Dr. Kristian Beck, unraveling the victims’ hidden lives.