Books like Pines by Blake Crouch

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

A New York City cop and a neuroscientist race to prevent a reality‑shifting epidemic caused by false memories that threaten to unravel the world as we know it.

The Passage is Justin Cronin’s 2010 debut novel that blends science‑fiction, horror, and dystopian themes as it follows humanity’s struggle against a virus‑transformed vampire‑like threat.

Stephen King’s Revival follows a charismatic preacher’s rise and fall in a small New England town, exploring music, addiction, and religious fanaticism amid family drama and supernatural mystery.

Jack Reacher, an ex-military cop turned wanderer, faces a decade‑old investigation that resurges, forcing him to confront unfinished business he once tried to leave behind.

A collection of three unpublished novellas by Roberto Bolaño, featuring his cunning detective Arturo Belano amid themes of love, violence, history, and suspense.

A thrilling tale of espionage, history, and the hunt for the Knights Templar's lost treasure, set against the backdrop of New York's most prestigious museum and the federal FBI investigation.

Twenty years after a summer camp tragedy in New Jersey, prosecutor Paul Copeland is forced to confront buried secrets when a new homicide links back to the missing teens, forcing him to face family ghosts and hidden truths.

FBI profiler Atlee Pine, haunted by her sister’s disappearance, hunts a serial killer in the remote western wilderness, uncovering a murder link behind a missing mule in the Grand Canyon.

A Secret Service agent uncovers the chilling truth behind the isolated town of Wayward Pines, where residents are controlled by an omnipotent founder and a deadly electrified fence blocks the world beyond.

Lawyer Lady Victoria Wentworth faces a brutal murder that spirals into a high‑stakes art theft, while New York art expert Anna Petrescu battles intrigue in the Twin Towers as a Van Gogh masterpiece changes hands.

FBI rookie Nicholas Drummond and partner Mike Caine investigate a Wall Street stabbing that uncovers a naval historian’s hunt for a World War I U‑boat’s hidden gold and a looming global threat.

"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 New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, a rural farmhouse becomes the focal point of a chilling murder mystery, as a mother and her psychic, disturbed son face an ancient, unseen terror lurking in the woods.

Deaf reporter Tuva Moodyson investigates a series of murders in the isolated Swedish town of Gavrik, uncovering a web of secrets tied to past killings and a sinister hunter in the spruce forest.

Ex-thief Letty Dobesh turns her talents toward stopping crimes in a collection of three tightly linked thrillers.