Books like Death Around the Corner by C-Murder

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

In the late 1980s, a young woman from the projects falls in love with a prosperous drug dealer, and together they confront the harsh realities of street life and the perilous allure of underground wealth.

>Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold investigate the disappearance of the newly appointed vicar of the coastal community of Clynde. The Reverend Jonathon Denby is well connected, the son of a baronet and with a cousin who is a government minister, so Arnold finds himself under pressure to solve the case swiftly. But when a body is discovered floating in the sea nearby the two detectives find themselves investigating a murder.

A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme that soon implicates Claire. Claire's only hope of clearing her name is to bring her sister's murderer to justice on her own...before a second killer strikes. But someone else is dogging Claire's trail: relentless F.B.I. agent Liam Jameson, who has tracked her to New Orleans. With her own life threatened, Claire reluctantly joins forces with the enigmatic Jameson. Distrust quickly flames into desire. As Mardi Gras builds to fever pitch, they are inexorably drawn into a shadowy world where impeccable tradition cloaks deadly secrets and where no one--not Claire nor even Jameson--is safe from the shocking truth...

The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite blends mystery and crime in a vivid New Orleans setting, featuring the fictional characters Crow and Poe Jared amid a murder investigation.