Books like Extraction by Douglas Preston

FBI agent Dana Pendergast uncovers a century‑old murder mystery hidden beneath New York City, only to find new killings echoing the past, forcing him to confront a chilling serial killer.

In 1990s Charleston, a close‑knit women's book club fights a sinister newcomer as child murders unravel their sleepy town.

Two brothers split between law and crime—one a top FBI agent, the other a brilliant but twisted serial killer—cross paths when the killer commits the perfect crime.

In southeast Utah, a determined archaeologist hunts the fabled Lost City of Gold, following in her father's footsteps after his mysterious disappearance sixteen years earlier.

Nora Roberts delivers a thriller‑romance about the supernatural and spiritual warfare that intertwines friendship, love, and precognition.

A billionaire’s daring expedition to recover the world's largest meteorite in Antarctica turns deadly as ancient secrets threaten the crew.

A brilliant FBI agent wrongfully imprisoned is drawn into his brother’s terrifying plans, a young woman teeters on the brink of collapse, and an ancient Egyptian tomb’s curse erupts during a glittering New York gala.

In the high‑tech amusement park Utopia, an engineer’s inventions turn into deadly weapons when a gang of criminals seizes control, holding visitors hostage and igniting a tense showdown.

When a corpse swings from a marble angel in her family garden cemetery, heiress Ashley Donegal enlists a team of paranormal investigators, including New Orleans musician Jack Mallory, to uncover a dark truth that threatens to expose hidden family secrets.

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.

A serial‑killer’s survivor, Kristi Bentz, enrolls at All Saints College to uncover a deadly cult and the link between vanished students, risking her own life to expose a menace that hunts her from within.

A massive dragon named Maxis, cursed and isolated, is drawn back into the modern world of New Orleans, where two dragons must confront ancient enemies and a looming threat of vengeance.

In New Orleans, private investigator Aidan Flynn and tarot reader Kendall Montgomery uncover a haunted mansion’s dark secrets and a serial killer lurking in the shadows of a long‑forgotten plantation.

A nurse from Ireland and a New England mansion collide when a missing business partner sparks a mystery woven with family secrets and a spectral presence that holds a deadly power.

Detectives Bentz and Montoya investigate a series of brutal murders of nuns in New Orleans, uncovering a web of dark secrets, forbidden romance, and a possible serial killer threatening the clergy.

"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 a clandestine group of scientists called the Immari unearths relics from an ancient enemy, humanity faces certain extinction. Only a genetics doctor and a secret agent can race against time to discover the fabled Atlantis Gene and halt the catastrophe.