Books like There was an old woman by Hallie Ephron

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

Austin radio host Paris Bell faces a deadly threat when a jealous listener, “Valentino,” vows revenge after she advises his girlfriend. Racing against time, she teams with a police psychologist to stop the kidnapping and protect herself.

Karin Slaughter’s Faithless follows medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver as they investigate a buried‑alive murder in Georgia, uncovering family secrets, police corruption and a killer more dangerous than imagined.

A political candidate is framed for murder and struggles to clear his name while plotting revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his career.

A diver haunted by a supernatural vision must collaborate with her skeptical partner to uncover a serial killer while confronting a lingering past that threatens their lives and sanity.

A chilling mystery on cruise ships as a serial killer targets lonely women with deadly intentions.

Benjamin Thorpe, a Los Angeles architect, slips into New York’s underbelly in search of companionship, becoming entangled in a prostitution murder that forces a detective team to investigate his possible involvement.

A literary thriller about two men living in a world of fiction, words, scenes, characters, and the New York Times bestseller list, featuring a complex plot involving deception, envy, and the power of the written word.

A young doctor's night of murder, a reporter's search for the truth, and a thrilling case of mistaken identity.

"Sally Chivers provides a fascinating look at and challenge to how North American popular culture has portrayed old age as a time of disease, decline, and death. Within contemporary Canadian literary and film production, a tradition of articulate central elderly female characters challenges what the aging body has come to signify in a broader cultural context. Rather than seek positive images of aging, which can do their own prescriptive damage the author focuses on constructive depictions that provide a basis on which to create new stories and readings of growing old. This type of humanities approach to the study of aging promises neither to fixate on nor avoid consideration of the role of the body in the much broader process of getting older. The progression implied in the title from the solitary symbol of The Old Woman toward a community of older women, indicates not a move toward euphemism, but rather an increasing and necessary awareness of the social and cultural dimensions of aging."--Jacket.

In "Rage," psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis revisit a chilling 8‑year‑old kidnapping case to confront a haunting killer who may exact brutal revenge.

A thriller that follows Terry Archer as he straddles the remnants of a family tragedy and the danger of a new threat when his daughter’s boyfriend leads them into a mysterious house. The novel blends suspense, murder mystery, and intimate family stakes.

A group of executives is held hostage in a luxurious business retreat by a group of backwoods hunters, with the goal of demanding a ransom of unprecedented size.