Books like Cold vengeance by Douglas Preston

A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

Monza Murcatto, a celebrated mercenary, returns from brutal injury to exact revenge against the Duke who betrayed her.

Jack Reacher is unwittingly taken hostage when a woman is kidnapped, forcing him to use his skills to rescue both of them.

Jack Reacher, an ex-military cop turned wanderer, faces a decade‑old investigation that resurges, forcing him to confront unfinished business he once tried to leave behind.

When a wealthy executive’s private jet crashes, his wife Sid finds herself blamed for his disappearance and forced to unravel a web of lies, corporate intrigue, and FBI scrutiny.

An action-packed thriller about a sports agent who rescues a missing teen golfer during a major golf tournament and uncovers a web of lies and secrets.

Aloysius Pendergast confronts a buried family secret when a murdered adversary appears, leading him to a California mine and a sinister past that looms with vengeance.

Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his wife Constance investigate the theft of a dangerous relic from a Tibetan monastery, leading them onto the maiden voyage of the ocean liner Britannia for a trans‑Atlantic thriller of intrigue and danger.

Nelson DeMille’s thriller follows Wall‑Street lawyer John Sutter as he confronts a Mafia don on Long Island’s Gold Coast, weaving friendship, seduction and betrayal into a suspenseful legal drama.

Special Agent Pendergast investigates the mysterious death of his wife Helen, uncovering secrets linked to a vanished Audubon painting and a deadly betrayal in Louisiana.

Special Crimes Unit agents, led by psychic detective Noah Bishop, must stop a deadly sniper whose murders trail through Tennessee while their own psychic powers begin to betray them.

Lawyer Lady Victoria Wentworth faces a brutal murder that spirals into a high‑stakes art theft, while New York art expert Anna Petrescu battles intrigue in the Twin Towers as a Van Gogh masterpiece changes hands.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett tackles two intertwined mysteries— a missing British executive and falconers denied hunting permits— uncovering a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the state’s rural way of life.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

A FBI agent embarks on a harrowing chase after a serial killer in South America after his wife is kidnapped from the US.

Dr. Dani Justice, a psychic investigator, must outwit a ruthless serial killer who has already murdered a senator’s daughter. Joined by FBI special officer Noah Bishop and an unconventional crime‑stopping collective, the hunt for the monster ends in blood, fire, and lingering danger.

FBI Agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker track two serial killers who target newlyweds, turning honeymoon dreams into deadly nightmares.

When Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast and his ward investigate a missing wine shipment in Exmouth, Massachusetts, they uncover a buried skeleton that hints at a far darker mystery than a simple theft.

In this thrilling collaboration with Alafair Burke, a kidnapping at New York’s Met Gala triggers a suspenseful investigation that unravels a cold‑case mystery, exposing the dangers of fame and media frenzy.

"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.

FBI agent Jane Hawk, now a fugitive, must protect her five‑year‑old son from relentless enemies that close in on her home, testing her courage, wits, and discipline in a deadly labyrinth of terror.