Books like Racing the devil by Charles Todd

Detective Ian Rutledge investigates a mysterious death at Fountains Abbey, a war‑like alchemy puzzle, and a secret search by the War Office, all while uncovering lies among outcasts in Berkshire’s leper cottages.

After the Great War, Inspector Ian Rutledge returns to London, haunted by shell shock, and is drawn into a murder case that threatens both his career and his sanity.

In 19th‑century England, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge must untangle a bloody murder of a despised London businessman, tracing a hidden chain of guilt that stretches back to a wartime act two decades earlier.

Louis Zamperini’s memoir chronicles his journey from 1936 Olympic runner to WWII bomber pilot, miraculous survival at sea, brutal Japanese captivity, and his postwar struggle with grief, addiction, and eventual healing through faith.

Explores the moonshine‑driven roots of NASCAR, revealing how Depression‑era bootleggers and their Ford V‑8s forged a new Southern sport that evolved into the multibillion‑dollar entertainment powerhouse it is today.

Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet. She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken woman insists it all happened so quickly, she never saw the man's face. Although he is a witness after the fact, Rutledge persuades the Yard to give him the inquiry, since he's on the scene. But is he seeking justice--or fleeing painful memories in London? Wentworth was well-liked, yet his bitter family paint a malevolent portrait, calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit, his village, has a notorious history: in Medieval times, the last wolf in England was killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs, the evidence suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose, and that death is closer than Rutledge knows.

Detective Simon Ziele, fresh from a tragedy in New York, tackles a brutal summer homicide in Westchester County, teaming up with criminologist Alistair Sinclair to uncover the killer behind a murder that may replicate a notorious pattern.

In post‑World War I Lancashire, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge must unravel a twin mystery: a beheaded housewife behind a red door and a mysterious man who vanished in London. Facing silence and betrayal, Rutledge seeks justice before guilt takes hold.