Books like An hour to kill by Dale Hudson

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

Miss Jane Marple investigates the mysterious shooting of magistrate Colonel Protheroe in St. Mary Mead, uncovering secrets that ordinary villagers could not.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

A chilling true‑crime account of a high school bully whose violent reign ends when he is found dead in the everglades, a revenge plot pulled off by his classmates.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

Two true‑crime case studies: a wealthy man buried alive with only 48 hours of air, and a fatal shooting in the Sierra Nevada involving locals and wealthy developers.

THhe odor of familiar perfume greeted him when he turned the knob on the door of Fay's bedroom, and in that first instant when he saw the limp, crumpled figure in the wicker chair he knew instinctively that his wife was dead. Dave Wallace had come to Trinidad to forget the past and his scheming, predatory estranged wife, Fay. But Fay had reneged on their divorce agreement and had followed him to the island, had moved in on him bag and baggage and begun running around with three different men. Now she was dead-strangled with her own necklace-and Wallace, who had quarreled with her only an hour before, still bore the scratch marks from her fingernails on the back of his hand. He knew that Fay had been winding up her affairs and planning to leave, that she had been playing her favorite game of blackmail, and that someone was paying her off. Steve Rand, the charter-boat captain, Neil Benedict, the gambler and night-club owner, and Joe Anderson, the real estate operator, had good reason to hate her. Yet of the men in Fay's life, he himself became at once the most logical suspect. For there had been another time when he had resorted to violence and attacked his wife with murder in his heart. If this became known while the police were investigating her death, who would believe he was innocent?

A real‑life Dallas murder plot unfolds in 1983 as detectives unravel the tangled motives behind Rozanne Gailiunas’ strangled and bullet‑riddled death, leading to a contract killer’s trial and a trans‑Atlantic fugitive pursuit.

Paddy Meehan, a Scottish reporter, uncovers a brutal murder after a bribe and a tainted police case. With deadline looming, she must expose the truth before her career and life are threatened.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.