Books like Velocity 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Odd Thomas travels across California and Nevada, following a vision that reveals the murders of three children, and gathers a cast of eccentric allies to confront a sociopath and a network of killers.

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

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 suspenseful mystery by Mary Higgins Clark, encompassing elements of psychological thriller, serial murder, and missing persons.

"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.