Books like Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels

Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.

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.

Bailey James awakens with no memory and a satchel of cash and a giant diamond, forcing private investigator Cade Parris to juggle danger, love, and mystery while he races to uncover her past.

Tory Bodeen returns to a South Carolina town scarred by her best friend Hope’s unsolved murder. Determined to open a home‑design shop, she seeks peace—and the chance to rebuild a bond with Hope’s brother, Cade—while confronting a lurking killer.

Claire Laurent, founder of the upscale lingerie brand French Silk, faces murder suspicion after a televangelist kills a critic of her erotic sleepwear. In New Orleans, District Attorney Robert Cassidy uncovers layers of deception and passion.

In a sudden elevator crisis in Manhattan, Laney McLeod encounters Deke Sargent, a handsome stranger who helps her confront claustrophobia and the unexpected chemistry that develops between them.

When mystery novelist Grace McCabe returns to Washington, D.C., to visit her estranged sister, she discovers her sister's hidden life as a phone‑sex operator. After Kathleen is strangled, Grace turns detective and sets a deadly trap for the killer.

A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.

After being jilted at the altar, Nina Cormier discovers a wedding church bombed in her presence and must race to identify a killer who will stop at nothing for her.

Dennis Lehane’s gritty Boston detective novel follows private investigator Patrick Kenzie as he hunts a sadistic stalker behind a woman’s death, confronting a psychopath that the law can’t touch.

Rachel, a young academic working on a dissertation about the role of superstition and magic in traditional sewing, finds herself trapped when a mysterious antique quilt brings a supernatural threat into her life.

In this thrilling collaboration with Alafair Burke, a kidnapping at New York’s Met Gala triggers a suspenseful investigation that unravels a cold‑case mystery, exposing the dangers of fame and media frenzy.

"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.

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.

Ex‑L.A. news anchor Ali Reynolds returns to Arizona after a broken marriage and career, only to face the murder of a local real estate tycoon and uncover secrets that threaten her new life.

Martin Arkenhout is a young serial killer who murders and then adopts the identities of his victims, plunging a cautious narrator and his own troubled life into a deadly chase across New York, the Bahamas, Amsterdam, and Portugal.

After losing legal custody of her infant son, Susanna Miller disappears with his child, assuming a new identity and seeking refuge in Annapolis, Maryland, where she must confront past ties and new dangers.