Books like The last to die by Beverly Barton

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

In small-town Mississippi, celebrated violinist Caroline Waverly retreats to her grandmother's house only to fall for enigmatic Tucker Longstreet, while a serial killer claims the town’s women. Suspense rises when Tucker becomes a prime suspect.

Sarah Stevens, a professional butler and trained bodyguard, must navigate murder, obligation, and a deadly stalker after her employer’s death.

Owner of an upscale fitness center, Blair Mallory finds her life turned upside down when a look‑alike is murdered after stalking her. With the media and a skeptical police lieutenant on her tail, she must uncover whether the death was a case of mistaken identity or a targeted attack.

Former Charleston PD detective Jay Burgess is found dead, and newswoman Britt Shelley has no memory of the night. Firefighter Raley Gannon, wrongly blamed for a 2003 station fire, must team up with Shelley to uncover the truth and survive those who will kill for their secrets.

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.

A security expert is hired to protect a dangerous woman, but when her life teeters on the brink, he must decide whether to keep her safe or open his heart.

Detective Lindsay McAllister faces a ruthless serial killer targeting former beauty queens while balancing her personal grief and the threat of a new deadly victim.

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.

In Salem, Massachusetts, a series of eerie murders and missing women draws a skeptical cop and an occult expert together as they hunt the legendary Harvest Man before he claims another victim.

When Toni MacNally’s plan to turn a Scottish castle into a tourist attraction turns supernatural, she must confront a mysterious ghostly laird and unravel a string of murders involving young women.

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

Former Hollywood star Lorie Hammonds returns to her Alabama hometown, where a series of death threats and serial murders thrust her into a dangerous investigation that forces her former high‑school sweetheart, Sheriff Mike Birkett, to confront a chilling personal history.

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.

A frantic hunt in London as former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter leads Private London to stop a killer abducting young women, while his past connections threaten to surface.

Emma Davis, a rising New York artist, returns to the reopened Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to uncover the truth behind her friends' disappearance, confronting hidden secrets and dangerous threats that may exact a deadly cost for closure.

"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.

Bree Nichols searches for her missing husband and son in Rock Harbor, uncovering a town‑shattering crime tied to a violent storm. The suspenseful tale follows a canine rescue team through Michigan’s wilderness.

Criminal defense attorney Jaywalker is suspended but given a final chance to defend ten cases. When a billionaire’s murder is framed as a crime of passion by his wife, Jaywalker must unravel the truth before his record is lost.

A gripping and suspenseful tale of a woman caught in the crossfire of her own past and the dangerous game she’s forced to play to prove her innocence.

A former Black Ops commando and a paralyzed journalist must confront a shared past when a new threat endangers her life, forcing them to face truths and emotions they both try to leave behind.

A teenage girl is charged with murdering her stepfather, but a determined district attorney and a disgruntled private investigator uncover a web of unsolved murders linked to an online therapy group’s lethal fantasies.

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.