Books like Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

When the first snow falls in Oslo, a missing‑mothers investigation leads Inspector Harry Hole into a deadly serial‑killer game that threatens to unhinge him.

Retired colonial policeman Luke Fitzwilliam returns to England to investigate a series of murders reported by a woman he meets on a train, including a threat of a serial killer targeting a village doctor.

Harper Connelly, a private investigator, is hired by a North Carolina town to locate a missing teenager. She discovers a pattern of vanished teens whose bodies lie buried in the frozen ground, and when the killers close in, she must decide how much she will risk to survive the investigation.

In Blacklands, twelve‑year‑old Steven Lamb begins digging in the Exmoor moor in search of a missing uncle, drawn into a chilling cat‑and‑mouse game with the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery.

Louis L’Amour follows William Tell Sackett on a dangerous trek from Arizona’s goldfields to Los Angeles, carrying gold and a reluctant companion, while confronting a deadly gunman named Sackett.

When a Norfolk coastal team unearths six bodies buried in a cliff face, forensic expert Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson dig into a sixty‑year‑old mystery that links the finds to a Second World War secret and a killer determined to keep the past hidden.

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In Baltimore, seasoned private investigator Tess Monaghan is hired to locate a famous Orthodox Jewish man's missing wife and children, uncovering a web of betrayal, vengeance, and murder.

Psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin, battling Parkinson's, is pulled into a murder investigation when the victim—a former nurse colleague—grows suspicious. Police turn their attention to him as he suspects a patient may be the killer.