Books like Bleeders by Bill Pronzini

Lord Peter Wimsey is drawn into the mysteries of a disinterred corpse, uncovering a century‑old crime that reverberates through a quiet East Anglian village.

Dorothy L. Sayers introduces Lord Peter Wimsey and the aspiring detective Harriet Vane in this classic detective mystery, where a courtroom accusation sparks an unlikely romance.

Sid Halley, a former champion jockey now freelance investigator, discovers a concealed crime committed by a close friend he has long admired. When the trial is set, Halley is called as a witness, thrusting him into a tense, investigative ordeal.

Sid Halley, an injured jockey turned private investigator, tackles a scheme to bankrupt Seabury racecourse in order to sell the property to developers.

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.

In Blacklands, twelve‑year‑old Steven Lamb begins digging in the Exmoor moor in search of a missing uncle, drawn into a chilling cat‑and‑mouse game with the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery.

Forfeit follows racing correspondent Brett Checkov as he tips a non‑starter, while private investigator James Tyrone faces a deadly plot that threatens his wife and the racing world.

Spenser returns to the outlaw‑riddled desert town of Potshot, Arizona, to investigate the murder of a local tour guide and confront a ruthless gang led by the enigmatic Preacher.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

"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.

In "Sentinels", the nameless detective is drawn to a California backwater when a worried mother’s case leads to a missing college student, Allison McDowell, and her enigmatic boyfriend on a drive from Oregon to San Francisco.

Infamous gangster Charlie Hook wants someone to write his biography. He chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as ghost writer. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion. Who killed the last of the London Godfathers? Laurie needs to find the killer to keep his job. There are several possible suspects: the Russian businessman with something dodgy in his Hampstead garden, Hook's two sinister public schoolboy sons, and the relatives of men whom Hook had killed decades ago. And what secrets lurk in Hook's empire? Laurie's search for the killer takes him to the bars of Thailand, and the bowels of the Old Bailey - as bizarre and hair-raising a journey as it is potentially lethal ...