Books like The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak

Lieutenant Eve Dallas, a seasoned New York police detective, hunts for a killer in the high‑profile murder of a senator’s daughter and the brutal slaying of three young women, while navigating the dangerous allure of a powerful suspect.

Police lieutenant Eve Dallas confronts a cunning killer who leaves cryptic riddles and a dark past tied to her new husband.

Eve Dallas returns to her New York precinct for a birthday party, only to confront a long‑suppressed killer from her past—Julie Dockport—whose plan spirals into a deadly, personal showdown.

When a brutal murder links a billionaire husband to a homicide investigation, Dallas‑Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas must piece together clues amid a chaotic crime scene.

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Eve Dallas, a police officer and author, receives a clue from a book that leads her to solve a murder in New York City.

Eve Dallas has a new case in Manhattan, while rural Arkansas faces the unexpected terror of Ella‑Loo, whose obsession with her ex‑con boyfriend turns deadly.

A thrilling police procedural with a twist of social investigation, featuring Lt. Eve Dallas, a women's detective in the New York Times bestseller series.

When a red‑haired girl with a bloodstained shoulder is found in a tree in Central Park, detective Kathleen Mallory is drawn into a 15‑year‑old homicide mystery that intersects her own troubled past.

"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 two patrons are murdered on successive nights at a play, detective Kathy Mallory investigates the killings and mystery chalkboard messages backstage.

Detective Merci Rayborn faces division in her sheriff’s department after a deputy is shot dead and a wife is murdered—she believes the deputy was framed and must uncover the truth before more lives are lost.

An FBI agent must use a beautiful advertising executive as bait to catch a serial killer, but the attraction between them threatens to get caught in the trap.

A campus policewoman leads a murder investigation, navigating procedural steps and unraveling clues in a university setting.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.