Books like The Dying Game by Beverly Barton

In small Adams County, Alabama, rookie Sheriff Bernie Granger battles a cunning serial killer who stalks, woos, kidnaps, and murders residents while she strives to prove herself to her new boss.

Detective Regan Pescoli's hunt for the Star‑Crossed Killer turns personal when she is captured by the very murderer she has been tracking. With the help of her partner Selena Alvarez and Nate Santana, the investigation spirals into a deadly game of minds in Montana's wilderness.

Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli hunt a ruthless serial killer stalking isolated Montana woods, while journalist Jillian Rivers faces the same killer’s deadly game.

Former partners Griffin Powell and Nicole Baxter confront a new, sadistic serial killer who turns their investigation into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

A private‑security agent’s dream assignment turns into a kidnapping nightmare in South America, forcing her to confront past crimes and a former boss’s hidden feelings while her life hangs in the balance.

After a life‑saving heart transplant, TV host Cat Delaney trades Hollywood for a children’s show in San Antonio, where she meets ex‑cop Alex Pierce. Their partnership is tested as heart‑recipients die and a shadowy stalker hunts Cat.

Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli race against time to stop a vengeful killer threatening their quiet Montana town.

Security agent Dante Moran is hired to protect Tessa Westbrook’s daughter, and in the duty that follows he discovers a stirring within himself that hints at more than a client‑contract relationship.

Lisa Jackson’s thriller follows a relentless serial killer targeting Montana residents, with a determined female detective racing to expose him before more innocents die.

Detective Reuben Montoya teams with haunted detective Abby Chastain to hunt a one‑in‑ten serial killer lurking in New Orleans, where twisted family ties and psychological demons threaten love and justice.

Seventeen‑year‑old Jazz thinks he can outwit his murderous father and his own dark urges. He secretly aids the police in catching a new serial killer, testing his conscience and father‑son loyalties.

After five years of unsolved murders, homicide detective Kitt Lundgren is drawn back into the case when the infamous Sleeping Angel Killer resurfaces, offering a chilling partnership that forces her to question trust and violence in her quest for justice.

Former Italian police marshal Guarnaccia is thrust into a grisly hunt for a serial killer, working under relentless detective Simonetti in the historic streets of Florence.

Tess Beckett faces her worst nightmare after her husband, a decorated cop, is revealed as a serial killer who escaped from prison.

Detective Bailey Weggins investigates a series of suspicious wedding deaths in Greenwich, Connecticut, as she seeks to rescue a bride in her wedding dress.

In the rural town of Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, the untimely murder of wealthy heir Jamie Upton sets off a chain of vicious killings that point to a jealous former lover and a hungry stalker.

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli are called to investigate a serial murder that links them to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell-Jane and the Mephisto Club.

When a journalist’s search for a missing friend turns into a dangerous mystery, she must confront a double life, a suspicious lookalike, and her own buried secrets to clear her name in rural Pennsylvania.

A suspenseful investigation into a mysterious murder that grips a small community.

A former FBI trainee, Miranda Moore, survives a serial killer and now hunts his latest victim, a Montana college student, as the FBI interrupts her relentless pursuit of vengeance.

Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling suspense novel featuring his renowned characters Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.

"A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the six other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them. Who will take control? Who will crack under pressure? But then a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real game begins. Combining suspense, unexpected twists, psychological gamesmanship, and a sinister dystopian future, The Dying Game conjures a world in which one woman is forced to ask, "Can I save my life by staging my death?"--