Books like Impact by Douglas Preston

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

363 pages ; 22 cm

A former lover’s passion turns to obsession when a college professor discovers the truth behind his ex’s vanished life, forcing him to confront a mystery that endangers his own existence.

Douglas Preston chronicles a daring expedition to the Honduran jungle to locate the legendary White City, or Lost City of the Monkey God, using advanced lidar technology to reveal a hidden metropolis and the deadly mysteries it holds.

The 23rd novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross mystery series follows the seasoned detective through a new homicide investigation in a glamorous North Carolina setting.

Alex Cross is charged with murdering followers of his nemesis, thrust into a legal battle that threatens his career and freedom while he, with former partner John Sampson, investigates a series of missing young girls linked to a dangerous internet cult.

In southeast Minnesota, a school board vote to allow a local reporter to be killed triggers a mystery, as Virgil Flowers investigates a dognapping ring that has expanded into medical labs and a murder.

Renée Ballard, a night‑shift detective in Hollywood, refuses to hand over her cases after filing a sexual‑harassment complaint. She tackles a brutal beating of a prostitute and a nightclub murder, risking her career to seek justice.

Detective Nap Dumas, scarred by the death of his twin and a vanished love, hunts answers that threaten his town, family, and his own sanity in this gripping thriller.

A Southern lawyer battles corrupt law enforcement and a malevolent terrorist group to defend his father, whose decades‑old murder charge unearths dark secrets from the civil‑rights era in Mississippi.

A widowed doctor’s family is shattered when his stepdaughter Anna is murdered, thrusting his new wife into a desperate search for the truth and uncovering a dark secret that shakes their home to its core.

Private investigator Jack Morgan is pulled into a high‑stakes hunt in Paris when a client’s granddaughter goes missing and a series of ceremonial murders targeting the city’s cultural elite begin, all connected by a mysterious graffiti tag.

A frantic hunt in London as former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter leads Private London to stop a killer abducting young women, while his past connections threaten to surface.

A thriller set in an Oregon boarding school, where a mother‑daughter duo uncover a sinister secret behind missing students and a lethal campus culture.

Former Italian police marshal Guarnaccia is thrust into a grisly hunt for a serial killer, working under relentless detective Simonetti in the historic streets of Florence.

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

A retired college professor takes it upon himself to rescue a teenage girl kidnapped and tormented by a sadistic pair whose brutal acts are livestreamed online, following a police investigation that stalls.

"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.

A serial killer has been terrorizing New York City, and only a renowned expert on criminal behavior can stop him.