Books like Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas and his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, together with a ragtag group of allies, navigate a dark desert landscape where past and present collide. As murderers and supernatural forces emerge, they race to stop a looming cataclysm.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Cross uncovers a new pair of rivals and a mysterious serial murderer in Washington and Paris, seeking revenge and justice for Gary Soneji's suicide and the murder of his fiancee.

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.

A dark New England mansion, the House of the Seven Gables, casts an ancestral curse over the Pyncheon family, revealing secrets, mysterious deaths, and a complex mix of gothic, historical, and moral themes.

A psychological thriller that follows Martie Rhodes as she and her husband Dusty confront a series of mind‑bending events involving a draconian psychologist, drug‑rehabilitated brother, and the terror of self‑fear.

In "Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner follows wheelchair‑bound retired historian Lyman Ward as he researches his grandparents’ pioneering life on the American West, uncovering truths that reshape his own story.

Lillian Booth rises from the opulent plantations of The Meadows to become the mistress of the Cutler's Cove hotel, navigating family secrets, betrayal, and love amid the Great Depression.

Roman fantastique. Roman policier (suspense).

A journalist investigates a man who performs miraculous rescues.

Maya, an orphan from California, moves to her mother’s ranch in Wyoming after her grandmother’s stroke. There she learns to trust herself, grow with the herd, and discover a wild mare that once rode her mother.

Mallory and Ginnie embark on a nostalgic journey when Mallory discovers her boyfriend has been cheating on her with a cyber 'wife.'

In a lonely hilltop house, Meridia witnesses her father vanish into mist nightly and hears her mother speak in eerie, pot‑and‑pan enchantments. The novel weaves family secrets, psychological tension, and mythic motifs into a chilling debut.

A young girl discovers her roots and family history in the Gold Rush, moving from Massachusetts to California with her family.

In the swamplands of Louisiana, a young woman defies her family's turmoil to navigate love, pregnancy, and secrets while contending with a wealthy cannery owner's schemes.

"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.

Sixteen‑year‑old Mina must decide whether to follow her vampire parents or stay human while navigating friendship, crushes, and new classmates in a California school’s mysterious vampire‑themed elective.

A tale of the petticoats between sisters and the haunting secrets of the dollager family, this novel will keep you on the edge of your seat with its psychological tension and spine-tingling plot twists.

Four gifted girls at New York's prestigious Senetsky School of the Performing Arts discover that success comes at a price when a dark family secret threatens their dreams.

Sam Capra, a CIA operative in London, is shattered when his wife Lucy, pregnant with their first child, cuts him off just before a building explodes, leaving him to uncover the truth behind her mysterious disappearance.