Books like Pretty Maids All in a Row by Anthea Fraser

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

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

In Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner Thomas Moore race to stop a serial killer who targets lone women with surgical precision, while unveiling a chilling link to a wounded medic with a deadly past.

Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles face a desperate hostage crisis when a corpse miraculously revives, kills a guard, and seizes a pregnant Rizzoli. Only Rizzoli can unravel the mystery before the night ends.

Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate a brutal murder in the peaceful Yorkshire village of Keldale, uncovering long‑hidden secrets and fresh betrayals.

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Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a new serial killer linked to the infamous Warren Hoyt as wealthy men are terrorized in Boston’s summer heat.

When a routine milk delivery to Celandine Cottage in Kent turns into a murder scene, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate a crime that ripples through family, cricket and society, forcing them to confront their own limits.

When two bodies surface beside Calder Moor’s ancient Nine Sisters Henge, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is assigned to a chilling investigation that pulls him into the hidden lives of a young couple, a disgraced policewoman and a former undercover officer’s family.

Inspector Hannasyde investigates a poisoned death in the wealthy Matthews family, where each member hides motives as they begin to die one by one.

Seattle detective J. P. Beaumont tackles the mysterious murder of an ex‑convict, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches high into law enforcement and threatens his own life.

Princess Adrianne, once a star of gala nights and charitable events, has hidden for a decade a burning quest for vengeance against her abusive father, the Sheikh Abdu Rahman. When her plans to steal a priceless jewel that once symbolized her mother's love collide with a mysterious man who knows her secret, a dangerous game of love, crime and redemption begins.

Two police detectives uncover a chilling village mystery, linking a recent fatal traffic incident to a decade‑old disappearance and a controversial murder conviction.

In 1929 Missouri, Alma DeGeer Dunahew, a maid and mother, seeks justice after a dance‑hall explosion claims her sister and others, unraveling family secrets and community tensions as she tells her story to her grandson.

Former Florida police chief turned CIA operative Holly Barker joins a special task force to hunt serial killer Teddy Fay, who stalks political targets. When she confronts him, a frantic chase through Manhattan ensues.

"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.

A provocative look at a psychopathic adult working with adolescents in a school setting.

Thomas Pitt, a Special Branch operative, is called to investigate a murder at Connaught Square, where a junior diplomat's body lies in a wheelbarrow. Suspicion falls on the house’s Egyptian tenant, Ayesha Zakhari, as political intrigue and a looming trial threaten to expose hidden scandals.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces a murder in Cornwall that forces him to confront family secrets and betrayals during a tense engagement weekend.