Books like Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

A young scholar uncovers a labyrinthine family legacy, tracing the truth of Vlad the Impaler and the myth of Dracula across centuries and borders, risking life and sanity to confront an ancient evil.

Stephen King’s Revival follows a charismatic preacher’s rise and fall in a small New England town, exploring music, addiction, and religious fanaticism amid family drama and supernatural mystery.

The final chapter of the Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney mystery series sees the Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield return to the grid, forcing the detectives to confront his new‑age, suicidal clientele.

363 pages ; 22 cm

When a past tragedy resurfaces, a woman who built a seemingly perfect family and career must confront the secrets that could destroy it all.

Elyria abandons her life in Manhattan and flies alone to New Zealand, where her isolated journey through forest, field, and park forces her to confront the grief of her sister’s death and her own hidden rage.

In East Long Beach, a high‑school dropout known as IQ uses his razor‑sharp mind to solve crimes the LAPD ignores, pulling a rap mogul into a deadly web of vengeance, murder, and high‑stakes danger.

331 pages ; 21 cm

A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.

A Hungarian novel about the complex bond between a writer and her housekeeper, exploring power, loyalty, and the secrets that bind them.

Five‑year‑old Anna faces a brutal bear attack while camping on a remote island, then must save herself and her brother, confronting hunger, danger and the wilderness to survive.

After surviving a serial killer attack, Rory Miller enters witness protection with her father and sister Darcy in the island town of Juniper Landing. As the sisters reestablish their lives, a new friend’s disappearance threatens to reopen the nightmare.

Professor Kyung Cho, whose mortgage woes threaten his family's future, must confront his painful past when his parents become victims of a home invasion, forcing him to provide the sanctuary his son deserves.

"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.

Father’s daring rescue mission to free his kidnapped daughters unravels a tense family saga of suspense and survival.

Lou Norton, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, uncovers chilling links between a teenage girl's mysterious suicide and the unsolved murder of her own sister.