Books like Hard freeze by Dan Simmons

After a catastrophic flu outbreak devastates the world, survivors must choose between two leaders—an elderly black woman heading to Boulder or the sinister Randall Flagg in Las Vegas—setting the stage for a struggle between good and evil.

A science‑fiction thriller in which a self‑replicating nanobot army, engineered through genetic algorithms, takes on a human and collective efforts to contain it.

The Passage is Justin Cronin’s 2010 debut novel that blends science‑fiction, horror, and dystopian themes as it follows humanity’s struggle against a virus‑transformed vampire‑like threat.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

In Dan Simmons’ chilling historical adventure, the Franklin expedition’s steamships Terror and Erebus are trapped in the Arctic for two years, where crew face starvation, mutiny, and a nameless terror lurking in the ice.

Jack Reacher is forced into a FBI investigation of a series of bizarre bathtub murders targeting women who sued their military superiors. With his reputation at stake, Reacher must expose the truth before the killer reaches him.

Detective Poirot solves a murder on a short flight from Paris to London, where every passenger, from a cocaine‑addicted countess to a jealous writer, becomes a suspect.

During a Mexican vacation, two couples lose a friend and delve into a jungle ruin, only to confront a terrifying, ancient presence.

In a 2036 America, ex‑detective Nick Bottom’s vivid memories of a 2010 murder may solve a magnate’s son’s death—and expose a link to his own tragedy.

During the Summer of Love, Easy Rawlins balances the crisis of his daughter’s expensive medical treatment with a dangerous plan involving an armored car heist, a mysterious disappearance, and a web of deception that stretches from LA’s hippie scene to a European tragedy.

Sid Halley, a former champion jockey now freelance investigator, discovers a concealed crime committed by a close friend he has long admired. When the trial is set, Halley is called as a witness, thrusting him into a tense, investigative ordeal.

Model murder sparks a media frenzy and a hunt by private investigator Lucas Davenport, who must confront a suspect from his own ranks and a string of inexplicable killings hinting at a chilling, hidden conspiracy.

Top‑secret secrets of Palm Beach collide with a long‑forgotten case as former cop Stone Barrington returns to the scene to unravel mystery and rekindle buried romance.

Stone Barrington, a private investigator in New York, finds himself embroiled in a dangerous mystery when a nighttime encounter leads to a dead body and a high-profile murder involving a famous TV anchor.

Stone Barrington, a former New York detective turned attorney, confronts a charismatic Texan conman in the city’s streets, while the NYPD, the New York Attorney General’s office, and even the CIA become involved.

Matthew Scudder faces a new death‑row investigation that pulls him into a web of murders threatening his own family, pushing the New York‑based detective to the edge of mortality and suspense.

"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.

At a high‑school reunion in Trippton, Minnesota, a frozen body sparks Virgil Flowers’s investigation into cold‑case secrets and long‑held grudges, proving that the past can turn deadly.

A mystery novel featuring detectives investigating a dance hall murder in New York City.

Stone Barrington flies to London for a client, only to be pulled into a deadly spy rivalry and a double murder that threatens his very life.

A relentless investigation follows former Manhattan DA Andy Rosenzweig as he hunts the elusive hit‑man Frankie Koehler, a double‑homicide suspect who disappeared 27 years earlier and whose existence the NYPD still claims is dead.

In Anne Perry’s Victorian London mystery, two women are strangled in a famed artist’s studio. Investigators William Monk and his wife hunt clues to clear the suspected Viennese surgeon, Dr. Kristian Beck, unraveling the victims’ hidden lives.

Former PI Joe Kurtz is ambushed, leaving him wounded and his parole officer Peg O’Toole dying. With organized crime and police eyeing him, Kurtz must outwit both the Farino family and mob rival Toma Gonzaga to survive.

Detective Bernie Gunther is pulled back into the shadows of Berlin’s 1934 Nazi world and Havana’s 1954 political turmoil as he confronts past enemies and a new threat that could end his life.