Books like Vanishing Season by Dot Hutchison

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

In a remote mansion’s hidden garden, abducted girls are grotesquely tattooed to become living butterflies. FBI investigators unravel the twisted Gardener’s reign of terror and Maya’s secrets, exposing a chilling case of kidnapping and bio‑art.

At fourteen, Simone volunteers as a kindergarten mentor in her leadership class. The experience feels rewarding until she senses troubling secrets within her student's family and must decide how far to intervene.

"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.

Julia Bishop, a recent widow, takes a bizarre caretaking job for famed horror writer Amaris Sinclair at her lakeside estate, only to uncover dark family secrets and possible supernatural dangers.