Books like Long lost by David Morrell

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

An action-packed thriller about a sports agent who rescues a missing teen golfer during a major golf tournament and uncovers a web of lies and secrets.

A London solicitor and Scotland Yard Inspector team up to resolve a baffling kidnapping case that perplexed the police, uncovering a truth hidden in a rural manor.

Austin radio host Paris Bell faces a deadly threat when a jealous listener, “Valentino,” vows revenge after she advises his girlfriend. Racing against time, she teams with a police psychologist to stop the kidnapping and protect herself.

Pilgrim was a legendary U.S. intelligence agent whose vanished career is resurrected when NYPD detective Ben Bradley uncovers a brutal acid‑murder that leads to a global hunt for a jihadist plot.

Adventurous urban explorers risk danger by infiltrating abandoned sealed buildings.

Jason Bourne, a deep‑cover operative with no memory, is rescued after a beachwreck and discovers a bank account embedded in his body that leads him to Switzerland and the truth about his past.

A collection of essays on 100 works of suspense from the ancient world to modern times by modern thriller writers such as David Baldacci, Lee Child, Sandra Brown, and many others.

Inspector Salvo Montalbano is stuck in Vigata during an oppressive August, where a young boy in a beach house disappears into a hidden shaft. His investigation pulls him into a sinister mystery that reshapes his life and relationships.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.

Alice Glendenning, a widow, is hit by a car while trying to find her children, who have been reported missing.

A former Delta Force operative turned bodyguard is tasked by a scientist to protect his revolutionary drug, but a deadly ambush reveals the scientist may be planning the very attack he fears, forcing the protector to confront a new weapon of terror.

Murder, ransom, and moral compromise unfold in Deon Meyer's South African thriller as a desperate father seeks the return of a kidnapped child, confronting the shadows of the nation's past.

A wealthy New Jersey gardener's daughter is drawn into a series of mysterious deaths.

"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.

A Los Angeles bike messenger becomes the target of a ruthless killer after surviving a hit‑run and discovering a package that holds a dangerous truth.

Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates a mysterious murder in the Yorkshire Dales, while Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, once a lover, comes to help and uncover the darker aspects of his family's past.

A singer's album debuts, but her debut album is kidnapped.

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