Books like Beneath the Lake by Christopher Ransom

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

In the Lake of the Woods follows John and Kathy Wade as they grapple with political defeat, marital strain, and Kathy’s sudden disappearance on a Minnesota lake, prompting a desperate search and a haunted look at their hidden secrets.

A ghostly love story that intertwines romance and supernatural suspense, offering readers a chilling yet tender exploration of longing and otherworldly encounters.

"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.

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When Dirk purchases a desolate lakeside resort to mend his broken family, he discovers the old lake hides an ancient hunger beneath its still waters.

A teenage girl faces a relentless stalker by the lake, while a mysterious past involving her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned lakeside house lingers in the shadows.