Books like Vicious Circle by C. J. Box

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

Game warden Joe Pickett arrives in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, where his integrity makes him unpopular. A hunting outfitter’s murder and a secret endangered animal force him to confront a powerful energy company and his own past.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

When animal bodies are found mutilated in Wyoming, game warden Joe Pickett suspects a killer rather than a grizzly. After two men are discovered disfigured, he faces a modern‑day Jack the Ripper terrorizing the frontier.

In Wyoming’s remote Black Hills, game warden Joe Pickett lands at a mysterious ranch where rumours of hidden wealth and murder swirl. He must uncover the truth while confronting dangerous locals and unexpected betrayal.

Joe Pickett is drawn into a covert FBI operation in Wyoming’s red desert after his friend Nate Romanowski seeks help to clear his record, leading both men into a deadly conspiracy.

In the rugged terrain of Wyoming, game warden Joe Pickett probes the disappearance of a local businessman tied to a wetland dispute, while his investigation uncovers evidence linking the businessman to the murders of two EPA employees.

Joe Pickett takes one last patrol as a temporary game warden in Baggs, Wyoming, where a series of violent campsite crimes and a missing runner hint at a deadly, supernatural threat lurking in the mountains.

In “In Plain Sight,” game warden Joe Pickett suspects a wealthy matriarch’s disappearance is linked to her greedy sons, only to face violent pranks that force him to confront his own dark past.

In Joe Pickett’s latest adventure, his daughter April goes missing and a girl’s body is found—poisoning the lives of a rodeo champion and the game‑warden world. Pickett must uncover the truth before danger turns deadly.

Rory Yates, a Texas Ranger on the brink of promotion, faces a murder accusation when his ex‑wife Anne is found dead, forcing him to investigate the brutal crime and clear his name.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett tackles two intertwined mysteries— a missing British executive and falconers denied hunting permits— uncovering a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the state’s rural way of life.

Former jockey Nicholas Foxton witnesses the brutal, execution‑style murder of his financial‑advisor colleague at the Grand National, and must unravel a web of mystery that pits identity, loyalty, and extreme‑risk investments against each other.

In Wyoming, game warden Joe Pickett escorts a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip—only to discover he may be the hunted. A tense thriller blending mystery and suspense.

"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.

Catherine Ling, a seasoned CIA operative, embarks on a perilous mission to rescue an imprisoned journalist in Tibet, navigating betrayal, a personal vendetta, and her promise to protect her son.