Books like The Face 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.

A bolt of lightning brings a blond-headed stranger into Laura Shane’s life, prompting her to question whether he’s a guardian angel or a devil in disguise.

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, the FBI agent, returns as a psychologist in D.C., tracking a serial rapist that resurfaces from a past case involving his wife's murder.

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 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 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.

Two isolated individuals flee a clandestine, illegal agency with a secret fascist agenda, chased by a ruthless operative who wields full governmental power.

A young programmer joins a cutting‑edge video‑game studio where a mysterious software glitch uncovers a two‑decade‑old secret tied to crime and hacking.

Former cop Charlie Hardie is drawn into a deadly conspiracy when an ex‑actress hires him to protect her from a group of assassins who make murders look accidental.

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.

Aunt Zoe and Private Investigator Ethan are finally free from a mysterious and persistent stalker who knows too much about them.

Actor Lincoln Edwards travels to South Africa to care for a dying friend’s racehorses, only to face three murder attempts and a shocking trap involving a car in a game park.

"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.

Ex‑FBI profiler Jade Marlow hunts the notorious psychopathic killer Allander Atlasia, who has escaped Alcatraz‑II and is murdering victims in a twisted reenactment of his past. A tense battle of wit and terror unfolds in San Francisco.