Books like Dead by Wednesday by Beverly Long

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian satire by Anthony Burgess, following violent teenage Alex in a near‑future society, narrated in the invented slang Nadsat and exploring state attempts at rehabilitation.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

Mystery thriller about a forensic linguist who investigates the kidnapping of a child.

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.

A gripping police procedural mystery centered around Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, as he investigates the Beijing Ripper and uncovers a web of lies and deceit.

A tense crime novel where a murder mystery unfolds on an American university campus, involving faculty, students, and a vigilant group that seeks justice beyond the law.

"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.

Paddy Meehan, a Scottish reporter, uncovers a brutal murder after a bribe and a tainted police case. With deadline looming, she must expose the truth before her career and life are threatened.

A mysterious murder mystery, featuring a woman with a photographic memory and a married couple in New York City

After a long‑ago attack, Lara Church hopes for a normal life in Austin. When Texas Ranger James Beck warns that the infamous Strangler has returned—this time to their own city—she must confront past trauma and help stop a new serial murder spree.

In 1997 Payatas, Manila, two Jesuit priests—Father Gus Saenz, a forensic anthropologist, and his protege Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist—hunt a serial killer preying on teenage boys amid poverty, corruption, and scant police resources.