Books like Dance of the bones by J. A. Jance

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.

Detective Lucas Davenport investigates a brutal double homicide in Minneapolis, where a young woman and later a man are discovered strangled and displayed, leading him to suspect a serial killer driven by a disturbed mind.

When a brutal murder links a billionaire husband to a homicide investigation, Dallas‑Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas must piece together clues amid a chaotic crime scene.

Eve Dallas, a police officer and author, receives a clue from a book that leads her to solve a murder in New York City.

Investigators J.P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady unravel a grisly murder spree that links arson killings in Washington to a bizarre death in Arizona, forcing them to confront their shared past and a deadly conspiracy.

Seattle detective J. P. Beaumont tackles the mysterious murder of an ex‑convict, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches high into law enforcement and threatens his own life.

A Southern lawyer battles corrupt law enforcement and a malevolent terrorist group to defend his father, whose decades‑old murder charge unearths dark secrets from the civil‑rights era in Mississippi.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

Second Watch follows J. P. Beaumont as vivid dreams from Vietnam reawaken forgotten memories and thrust him into a baffling mystery while he recovers from knee replacement surgery.

In Seattle, Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont wrestles with a tragic fall that reveals a murderous conspiracy within a powerful steel union.

Meet Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont in his debut mystery, where he tackles a gripping case that tests his wits and determination.

Sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle cop J.P. Beaumont team up to uncover a murder tied to a deadly toxin, exposing a deadly mix of greed and power.

Retired detective J. P. Beaumont is pulled back into crime when his nemesis, crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in an apparent accident, forcing him to confront a cold case, a hidden enemy, and his fractured family.

Police academy‑trained reporter Ali Reynolds is hired to investigate a brutal murder of a gold‑digging divorcee, but the case intersects with another mystery that may be linked to her own past.

Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware investigate a series of murders at Los Angeles’ Bird Marsh, uncovering dark secrets that threaten the city’s hidden underbelly.

Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne wrestles with a shocking case when a beloved Philadelphia socialite, Camilla Rose Morgan, seemingly jumps to her death from a balcony, forcing him to confront the possibility of foul play and hidden mental illness.

Senior police officer Richard Jury investigates a long‑forgotten murder of Tess, a wife whose death was ruled an accidental fall, possibly linked to a fatal incident at a children’s party and a recent tower collapse near his bars.

Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling suspense novel featuring his renowned characters Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.

When a 21‑year‑old missing in Thailand is found dead at a Buckinghamshire school, a former lecturer uncovers a decades‑old cold case linked to a ruthless crime gang and a wealthy family’s dark secrets.