Books like Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

In Oyinkan Braithwaite’s sharp, darkly comic debut, Korede must navigate life in Lagos when her beloved sister Ayoola repeatedly claims new boyfriends as victims of her murderous streak.

Veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger returns to the U.S. to investigate a murder that places him against powerful adversaries, blending sharp suspense and crime investigation.

When a boy disappears, FBI consultant Timothy Blake is called in to negotiate a ransom, but the case quickly turns into a hunt for a cunning kidnapper who may have a personal connection to Blake’s secret past.

Mystery thriller about a forensic linguist who investigates the kidnapping of a child.

Six long years ago, misguided ambition had made Jessie Harper say goodbye to rugged, beloved Bodie Lattimer. Now her driving desire to be the country's best horse trainer threatened to sever another relationship ... with her daughter. Years of dusty roads and barroom brawls had gnawed away at Bodie, leaving him empty except for the same warm hunger he'd always felt for Jessie. Now that he was back, he'd fight to help her keep her daughter. Then he'd prove to Jessie that ambitions were fine ... as long as the winners' circle had room enough for three.

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is haunted by her inability to solve a brutal double murder, leading her to investigate another opportunity as Senior Investigating Officer, but her personal life is put in jeopardy.

A blind woman investigates a serial killer through her musical therapy skills.

Already a book club favorite, Hunger is Erica Simone Turnipseed's captivating follow-up to A Love Noire, in which heartache fans the flames of lust when freethinking Noire and Innocent, her urbane African ex, reunite. Noire and Innocent are both having a thirtysomething crisis. A beleaguered graduate student, she's got no money, no man, and no Ph.D.—yet. His former identity as a successful investment banker and eligible bachelor has disappeared. A year of predoctoral research in Haiti leaves Noire drained. And a trip home to Cote d'Ivoire offers Innocent little more than intermittent sexual gratification. In the aftermath of 9/11, Noire and Innocent are back in New York City and find solace in each other's beds. But even that arrangement collapses under the weight of Innocent's revelation that he has unfinished business in Africa. For Noire and Innocent, patching together their unraveling lives becomes an exercise in hope and humility. With Hunger, Turnipseed lives up to the promise of A Love Noire, maturing into a writer who fearlessly explores the intersection of sex, love, identity, and loss in a cross-cultural context.

A collection of twelve sharp, humorous short stories that poke fun at modern womanhood, blending everyday domestic scenes with darker twists of revenge and reinvention.