Books like A little less than kind by Charlotte Armstrong

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

A dark New England mansion, the House of the Seven Gables, casts an ancestral curse over the Pyncheon family, revealing secrets, mysterious deaths, and a complex mix of gothic, historical, and moral themes.

Alison's thoughts of Craig Carter keep her from forgetting the past, but he is too dangerous for her to be friendly with.

In this anthology of fifty romance novels, each story takes readers to a different U.S. state, offering a romantic tour written by Janet Dailey with thorough research by her husband Bill.

After her father's death, Stacy retreats to a secluded Texas cabin to heal, but the arrival of the proud rancher Cord Harris challenges her plans and sparks a fierce determination to stay.

Set in the fictional town of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, Appointment in Samarra follows Julian English as his brief Christmas crisis forces him to confront his excesses, revealing the fragility of the American middle class.

A headstrong orphan named Miranda becomes a servant on the Welsh estate of the Glendowers, where her bold spirit provokes jealousy while a series of mysterious deaths thins the household’s loyalty and tests her trust.

After leaving her affluent stepfather’s home, Ann Beverly becomes a farm housekeeper, discovering love and a new life in the Yorkshire countryside alongside her employer, Patrick.

An intriguing tale of a woman who discovers her past while solving the mysteries of a small, isolated town and finding herself entangled in a web of dark secrets and warnings.

A Russian Jewish man named Yakov is wrongfully accused of ritual murder during the Tsarist era.

A romance novel about a woman who becomes the future Olympic runner under the tutelage of a trainer who sees her as nothing more than a property for himself.

A runaway woman finds refuge in the small town of Last Chance, New Mexico, where kind strangers and hidden dramas challenge her plans and may offer a new path to home and self‑realization.

"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.

Low Country Liar invites readers on a romance-filled journey through South Carolina, the first of fifty state-themed novellas written by America’s premier romance author.

Set amid 13th‑century England and the reign of Henry III, Edith Pargeter’s "The Marriage of Meggotta" follows the secret, passionate bond between Richard de Clare and Meggotta de Burgh, as political intrigue and looming civil war threaten to tear them apart.