Books like The lying voices by Elizabeth Ferrars

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

When her daughter Amelia is suspended and later found dead, a mother faces police, guilt, and a mystery that forces her to question the truth of her own grief.

Perry Mason tackles a perplexing homicide in Los Angeles, where a frantic client and a mysterious lieutenant complicate the investigation.

Aurora Teagarden and wealthy businessman Martin Bartell marry at the Julius House, but a violent attack reveals the house and their shared pasts may destroy their fledgling marriage.

Inspector Alan Grant investigates a mysterious murder on a night train to London, where a dying man's unfinished poem—about talking beasts and singing sands—clues him to a hidden conspiracy.

Sandy Frederick returns to the volcanic isle of Thera for a dive with her obsessed father, confronting ancient mysteries, dark superstition, and a tangled web of betrayal, blood, and death that may determine her fate.

If a middle‑aged woman is hanged for murder, who would have known her tragic past? Ruth Rendell’s Barbara Vine novel dissects a family’s buried secrets, exploring the slow descent into violence and control.

Inspector Thomas Lynley goes undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell, uncovering a web of secrets in the affluent Fairclough family.

Frank Cairnes, a popular detective novelist, turns his investigative skills to a personal tragedy: hunting the runaway driver who killed his son Martin.

In the quiet village of Prior's Umborne, a series of poison-pen letters stirs suspicion. Nigel Strangeways is called upon to uncover the culprit before more harm occurs, amid secrets and a mysterious death at the dreadful hollow.

A financier is shot dead inside the House of Commons, and a young parliamentary private secretary, summoned by the victim’s daughter, turns investigator in a tale of political intrigue, betrayal, and danger within Britain’s government.

When Rachel Gairdner takes off for Australia to visit her brother Ian, she expects to enjoy a well-deserved holiday in that exotic land down under. But things don't appear to be going as planned. First, her brother fails to meet her at the airport as promised, and shortly after arriving at his house, Rachel discovers that Ian has disappeared. Then, later that weekend, she awakens to find a doctor hovering over her. It seems Rachel has attempted suicide--there's even a note in what looks like her handwriting at her bedside. Realizing that she was drugged, Rachel now fears that someone is trying to kill her. But who would want to murder a twenty-nine-year-old schoolteacher from Edinburgh? Could Ian, her only living relative, somehow be involved now that Rachel has recently received a surprisingly large inheritance from their aunt? And what of the hasty departure of the Constoupolises, the seemingly friendly Greek couple from whom Ian rented a room? And the sinister-looking character named Slattery, who's been snooping around ever since Rachel arrived--is he the key to brother Ian's disappearance or the attempt on her life? All Rachel knows is that her dream vacation has suddenly turned into a terrifying nightmare...and it's only a matter of time before her mystery assassin strikes again.

Holly Dunthorne returns to her childhood village to find an old friend accused of assaulting an elderly resident and later a murder, leaving her to confront how much the community—and she herself—has changed.

Globally acclaimed general’s memoir ghostwriter Sara Marriott becomes a silent witness to a puzzling series of murders in a quiet town, when an answered phone delivers a chilling warning that turns a simple assignment into a deadly investigation.

Aunt Alice Robertson struggles to descend her ancestral home's grand staircase, and after a tragic fall her nephew suspects foul play. Inspector Long must unravel rumors of hidden heirlooms and tangled motives that hint at a dark family secret.

A stormy night walk leads Dan Braille, novelist and patient, to a chilling disappearance. When authorities learn he feared poisoning, a darker truth surfaces.

Widowed professor’s widow, Imogen, navigates family drama and a murder accusation after her husband’s sudden death.

*You called the police. That was the first thing to do. You did it at once...* Yet Matthew Tierney found himself sitting in a chair, staring at the strangled body of his wife; he was paralyzed by shock, unable to reach for the telephone on a nearby table. Perhaps it was this delay in calling the police that made him a prime suspect (an airtight alibi notwithstanding) or perhaps it was the substantial inheritance that his wife had recently come into--and that was now his. Tierney, however, has a few ideas of his own about who might have wrapped a cord neatly around his wife's throat. His investigation takes him to the lovely seaside resort where she had often vacationed, and where it seems that murder, too, is now on a holiday. For Tierney's prime suspect--his wife's lover--is found dead...and evidence again points a finger directly at Matthew Tierney...

Set on June 26, 1963, Jack Higgins’ thriller follows a desperate Allied team—including six monks, an American priest, a British major, and a young doctor—to avert a catastrophic plot that threatens Winston ‍Berkeley’s visit to divided Berlin.

A London bookseller’s ordinary life spirals into danger when he probes the mystery of an enigmatic woman, leading him from the streets of London to Madeira as a murder unfolds.