Books like Icebound by Dean Koontz

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.

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.

When a murderous sociopath stalks her friends in Napa Valley, former survivor Chyna Shepherd must guard herself and an innocent stranger, risking life and sanity to confront the deadly intensity of Edgler Vess.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

Landscape gardener Mitch Rafferty has only sixty hours to rescue his kidnapped wife, facing a ruthless ransom demand and a deadly confrontation that turns his suburban life into a relentless thriller.

In the secluded town of Snowfield, California, a shocking mystery unfolds after 150 people are found dead with grotesque injuries, sparking a chilling investigation into a mass murder that blurs the line between good and evil.

A 1751 adventure of a sixteen‑year‑old orphan kidnapped by his uncle who follows the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

With a rare gene that renders him hypersensitive to light, Christopher Snow navigates the shadows of Moon Bay, California, until a series of sinister events forces him to confront danger and the town’s hidden truths.

Joseph Conrad’s 1900 novella follows a young English officer who, after a moment of cowardice, seeks redemption on the high seas, blending seafaring adventure with psychological depth.

In Dean Koontz’s thriller "Watchers," a genetically engineered dog gains human intelligence, stirring a deadly conflict when it escapes, endangering those who cared for it and unleashing a state‑level secret.

Blaze is Stephen King's early novel, originally written before Carrie and published in 2007 under his pseudonym Richard Bachman after a rewrite that cut much sentimentality.

When a man's life is twisted by a delusional intruder claiming he is the real Marty Stillwater, the family must flee for survival against a relentless, psychotic killer.

When a sterile silver rain engulfs a quiet Californian mountain town, a couple and neighbors discover that all communication has vanished and a hidden menace now stalks them, unveiling an apocalypse that threatens the world.

Narrated by Eddie, the novel follows a chilling chalk drawing that forces him back to a childhood game from 30 years ago that tragically went wrong—and threatens to repeat itself.

Bestselling author Cubby Greenwich faces a cruel review from the enigmatic critic Shearman Waxx, leading him into a deadly confrontation with a ruthless sociopath who threatens more than his life.

Sid Halley, a private investigator with a bionic hand, probes corruption in the racing world.

Dennis Lehane’s gritty Boston detective novel follows private investigator Patrick Kenzie as he hunts a sadistic stalker behind a woman’s death, confronting a psychopath that the law can’t touch.

Prince Nikolai Volkhov is known at the Czar Alexander's court as "the Ice King" ­ as famous for his cold reserve as for his lack of interest in feminine wiles. Why, then, should he seem to take such an interest in Tanya, a penniless orphan, almost on the shelf? Snatching at her last chance of gaiety in St. Petersburg before she resigns herself to a bleak, hopeless future, Tanya no longer trusts in good luck. She knows that Prince Nikolai's attentions can mean nothing but heartbreak ­ because, like a fool, she has fallen in love with a man of whom she knows nothing...

A Russian noble cursed with extreme longevity and immunity to cold roams two centuries and three continents, questing to uncover the mystery of his strange biology while confronting memories of love and history.

A relentless assassin's hunt in the North, centering on a ruthless killer, a woman he loves, and a beloved mayor hired to kill him with extreme prejudice.

A novel of courage, violence, and passions set against the backdrop of World War II, focusing on soldiers and their bonds within the military setting.

"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.

Engineered a polar expedition, Perry Sachs discovers a centuries‑old artifact under Antarctica’s ice, unaware of the looming forces eager to claim it.

In 1930s Tulsa, Deputy US Marshal Carl Webster hunts bank‑robber Jack Belmont, a young outlaw determined to become a public enemy.