Books like Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

Set in post‑World War I Boston, _The Given Day_ follows two families—a black and a white—caught amid revolutionaries, anarchists, and a brewing union movement, culminating in the 1919 police strike.

RIP AIDS romance NEC 2.4: Pack of secrets in LA, 9 deaths, 12 nights, 10 times too much

When a commuter plane crashes into a Los Angeles apartment building, L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker must uncover a hidden mystery amid terror, missing passengers, and a decades‑old murder that threatens his family and his sense of justice.

A police lieutenant and his police‑spouse partner investigate a synagogue desecration that leads to a rich young man's murder and a web of concealed secrets tied to hate crimes and family guilt.

Lt. Peter Decker is stunned when a relative is found murdered in a Manhattan hotel and his niece disappears. Racing across the country, he dives into New York's underworld, confronting crime, secrets, and his own faith.

Little Emily Steiner is dead. She left a North Carolina church meeting late one October afternoon and strolled along a lakeside path toward her house two miles away. Who met her on the path? Who followed her home, kidnapped her from her bedroom, and left her body by the lake days later? It's a puzzling and terrifying crime, reminiscent of the work of serial killer Temple Gault, who has long eluded Dr. Kay Scarpetta and the FBI's Investigative Support Unit in Quantico, Virginia, where Scarpetta consults as a forensic pathologist. At the request of the North Carolina authorities, Scarpetta and her colleagues, Benton Wesley and Pete Marino, fly to the mountains near Asheville to assist. They find a mother in mourning and an investigation in disarray. It's particularly frustrating to work a homicide after the fact. An inexperienced pathologist missed or misinterpreted some of the evidence, leaving Scarpetta with inconclusive medical and laboratory reports, and photographs that only raise questions. What, for instance, is the strange mark on the child's body that causes Scarpetta to plead with a reluctant judge for an exhumation? What is the meaning of trace evidence from a plant not indigenous to the Carolinas? And where did the killer obtain the unique blaze-orange duct tape, with which he bound Emily and her mother? Most puzzling of all is the question of when Emily died. She disappeared the night of October 1. Her nude body was found a week later. Scarpetta's obsession with time leads her to The Body Farm, a little-known research facility in Tennessee where, with the help of some grisly experiments, she might discover the answer. It is Scarpetta alone who can interpret the forensic hieroglyphics that eventually reveal a solution to the case as staggering as it is horrifying. Scarpetta not only must search for a killer, she must endeavor to help her niece Lucy, who is accused of espionage while interning at the FBI's highly classified Engineering and Research Facility in Quantico. And she must reach out to Marino, who retreats deeply into a strange relationship that may wreck his career and ruin his life. Scarpetta, too, is vulnerable, as she opens herself to the first physical and emotional bond she has felt in far too long a time. This is Scarpetta even more realized and poignant than we've seen her before, tenacious and brilliant, tender and gentle. The Body Farm is a stunning achievement from a bestselling author at the peak of her powers.

When billionaire Genoa Greeves seeks justice for her teacher’s murder, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker must unravel a new execution‑style killing that mirrors the old case, uncovering danger, greed and family ties along the way.

Detective Peter Decker investigates a brutal murder of a teenage girl, uncovering a hidden, violent underworld among Southern California’s upper‑class youth.

LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina face a brutal murder at billionaire Guy Kaffey’s Coyote Ranch, forcing them to navigate a web of inside jobs, corruption, and deadly rivals across Los Angeles and Mexico.

Detective Peter Decker must untangle a puzzling disappearance of a diamond dealer’s family from their Los Angeles estate, but the case deepens when another dealer is murdered in Manhattan, pulling Decker and his wife Rina into a global web of intrigue that ends in their own backyard.

First‑year LAPD rookie Cynthia Decker faces a terrifying stalker while juggling a car‑jacking investigation, all while keeping her growing danger hidden from her father Peter and stepmother Rina.

Mass murder at a Los Angeles restaurant forces homicide detective Peter Decker to investigate a mysterious shooting that may involve multiple weapons and a hidden web of California power and corruption.

Detective Peter Decker investigates a brutal rape at a secluded yeshiva in the California hills, guided by calm witness Rina Lazarus as religious customs and personal ties complicate the case.

LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn left in an alley, sparking a dangerous hunt for its mother through Los Angeles’ gritty streets as she teams up with detective Peter Decker to uncover a violent killer.

Detective Peter Decker investigates the murder of Dr. Azor Sparks, uncovering surprising links to his own family and a renegade priest.

LAPD detective Peter Decker investigates a blood‑soaked child in San Francisco, uncovering a web of murders that pulls him into a deadly confrontation with his beloved Rina in New York.