Books like The search by Iris Johansen

The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he unravels a conspiracy in Washington, D.C., using Freemasonry and cryptographic puzzles to uncover hidden truths.

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.

An ex-harem slave and a reformed assassin team up to chase a legendary religious relic across Scotland and beyond, facing a powerful sheikh and a treacherous mystery that could cost them their lives.

Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor, must reconstruct a face from a skull sent by billionaire John Logan, uncovering a conspiracy that threatens her life and the truth about her missing daughter.

Rogue archaeologist Nolan Moore hosts a disputed web series and risks everything when he discovers a hidden Grand Canyon cavern he believes is the ancient mystery of a 1909 explorer.

"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 agent Mark Beamon, exiled in the Southwest, pursues a deadly conspiracy after a millionaire family’s murder leads him from a Utah survivalist’s cabin to a cult‑like church and a high‑tech empire.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is called to Baton Rouge to identify a murder victim’s skeleton, but a ruthless killer threatens her life and those she loves as she uncovers a chilling conspiracy.

Fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott accepts a lucrative summer job at a sprawling Arizona ranch, only to find her employer Hank Hunnicutt embroiled in odd projects—from alien theories to a dragon‑bone hunt—before his sudden disappearance leaves her chasing a mystery that may endanger her life.

After a sight‑giving operation, Kendra Michaels develops heightened senses that make her a sought‑after psychic detective. When a traffic accident on San Diego’s Cabrillo Bridge turns out to be a murder, she must use her powers to uncover a serial killer who mimics her most notorious cases.

Two seasoned drifters, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, roam the Arizona frontier, caught between rival stagecoach lines and the affections of a widow, turning an ordinary ride into a perilous showdown on the wild west.