Books like Mercy by David L. Lindsey

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

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.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

Crime‑beat reporter Jack McEvoy races against time to catch a cleverly word‑crafting serial killer who preys on police detectives in Colorado’s streets.

FBI profiler Atlee Pine, haunted by her sister’s disappearance, hunts a serial killer in the remote western wilderness, uncovering a murder link behind a missing mule in the Grand Canyon.

After a notorious con man's crash, his wife Rhoda remarries wealthy Carl Montaine; when the con man returns alive, he seeks both her fortune and to expose her earlier marriage.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

A Perry Mason mystery involving a substitute face and a complicated triangle of love and deceit.

Private investigator John Marshall Tanner returns to Charleston to protect civil‑rights activist Seth Hartman from a white‑supremacist plot, uncovering a web of corruption and danger that threatens the city's elite.

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

A hostage rescue gone wrong spirals into a deadly shooting spree, forcing freelance operative Jonathan Grave to battle a faceless enemy who will stop at nothing to conceal the truth.

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A man is found by Chief Superintendent Buchanan sitting on the steps of Whitehall. The man has apparently lost his memory. He utters only three words: I witnessed murder... Buchanan calls him Michael, hand him over to a reluctant Tweed, ex-Scotland Yard detective, now Deputy Director of the SIS. Events lead Tweed with his assistant, Paula Grey, to desolate Dartmoor, accompanied by Michael. There they discover two skeletons. Later, two more -- one in London, the fourth on a Sussex canal boat. The wealthy Volkanian family, from Armenia, have a mansion on Dartmoor. Are they involved? Key characters are Lucinda Voyles and Anne Barton. There is a new development. A strange freighter, cargo holds empty, is spotted heading from the Mediterranean towards the Cornish coast. Tweed suspects the vessel is linked to the four horrific murders. The relentless pace of Tweed's investigation accelerates. Can he break the case before a sinister deadline? He fights ruthlessly to do so -- in a riveting double climax.

Travis McGee #18

Mona, a young woman scarred by abuse, turns to murder when her desperate situation brings her to hard‑boiled detective Dillon. Their uneasy partnership drives a brutal hunt for the money hoarded by Mona’s cruel aunt.