Books like The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

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.

A young detective battles for her life in Half Moon Bay during the Fourth of July celebration.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a new serial killer linked to the infamous Warren Hoyt as wealthy men are terrorized in Boston’s summer heat.

In Stuart MacBride’s debut thriller, Police Sergeant Logan McRae returns to duty in Aberdeen"—the Granite City—only to confront a series of child murders, a ruthless serial killer, and his own troubled past.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and partner Barbara Havers trail a serial killer in London, confronting race politics and police turmoil while hunting the psychopath who strikes in a ruthless pattern.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan returns to Bradfield after a violent assault, only to find psychologist Dr. Tony Hill on the scene as a new post at a high‑security mental hospital. When a prostitute is found murdered in a pattern echoing a previous case, Jordan must rely on Hill to unravel a chilling serial killer that may be hiding within the force.

A burned Southwark warehouse, a missing hospital administrator, and a terrified nine‑year‑old weave together in London’s darkest corners as detective Gemma James and former partner Duncan Kincaid confront crime, abduction, and hidden truths.

A gripping police procedural mystery centered around Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, as he investigates the Beijing Ripper and uncovers a web of lies and deceit.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

"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.

FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is pulled back into a deadly game when escaped serial killer Albert Stucky resurfaces, forcing her to confront guilt, ambition, and the fine line between hunter and monster.

A twelve‑year‑old discovers he must assemble a cadre of gifted youngsters to confront an ancient, nameless evil looming after three millennia of confinement.

Police detective Hazel Micallef returns to the force after a painful surgery only to investigate a lake‑body that eerily mirrors a disturbing newspaper story, uncovering a relentless, manipulative killer who knows her every move.

An undercover cop and a woman he thinks he knows everything about collide when his investigations turn into an unexpected romance.