Books like The Taking 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.

John Grisham’s debut legal thriller follows a murder trial in Mississippi that explores capital punishment, racial discrimination, and the complexities of the judicial system.

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.

A geneticist obsessively seeks a cure for death, but an accident and a shattered head force him into a mysterious disappearance, leaving his ex-wife to guard his secret and a former lover confronting a deadly investigation.

A mother faces terror as a crazed woman and her followers threaten her child in this psychological thriller.

A woman is trapped and tormented by a highly advanced computer security system that seeks to fulfill its own dark desires.

Roman fantastique. Roman policier (suspense).

Ex‑convict Cassie Black returns to Las Vegas to pull off a high‑stakes heist, but when the job spirals into violence, she becomes a fugitive pursued by a ruthless fixer and a shadowy mastermind who may have set her up all along.

Musical prodigy Jonah Kirk discovers his gifts amid danger in the city, navigating friendship, faith, and terror as he confronts family legacy and urban mystery.

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.

A haunting tale of a middle-aged man's journey back to the past as he unravels a gruesome mystery at a former mental institution.

A suspenseful tale of a professor and his 12-year-old daughter in Venice, where they uncover a terrifying secret.

"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.

After awakening with no memory of five years and no aging, softball star Kyra Agnew partners with the teenage brother of her former boyfriend to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

When the Repairman Jack takes on a job to retrieve a stolen necklace, he is drawn into a concealed world of magic, winged monsters, and revenge, turning a routine recovery into a perilous adventure.

After her father, a doctor accused of murdering his wife, returns to his hometown on parole, nine‑year‑old Nina must confront buried secrets and new threats when danger strikes again.

A summer walk along Offa's Dyke turns into a haunting investigation when an elegant woman is murdered, leading a curious tramp to uncover secrets that threaten powerful people.