Books like Murder not proven? by Jack House

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 chilling, factual account of the 1959 shotgun murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members were killed with no clear motive or clues.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

James Ellroy’s hard‑boiled crime novel follows detectives as they unravel Los Angeles’s darkest mystery, the unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, blending gritty police work with atmospheric noir.

A 1751 adventure of a sixteen‑year‑old orphan kidnapped by his uncle who follows the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

In "Dragonfly in Amber," Diana Gabaldon transports readers across time to 18th‑century Scotland and France, following Claire Randall’s return with her daughter Brianna to uncover family secrets tied to the Jacobite uprising.

Detective Daniel Hawthorne teams up with bestselling writer Anthony Horowitz in a modern whodunnit set in Great Britain, where a complex murder case forces both to navigate crime, secrecy, and investigation.

A biographical portrait of Gary Gilmore, the 1976 Utah murderer who demanded his death sentence be carried out, fighting a system eager to keep him alive long after conviction.

Ann Rule’s true‑crime biography exposes the chilling rise of serial killer Ted Bundy and the devastating realization she faced when she discovered the killer was her friend.

If a middle‑aged woman is hanged for murder, who would have known her tragic past? Ruth Rendell’s Barbara Vine novel dissects a family’s buried secrets, exploring the slow descent into violence and control.

The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies, and many others. Each case presents a deadly new puzzle and Norris and Gettler create revolutionary experiments to tease out even the wiliest compounds from human tissue. From the vantage of their laboratory it also becomes clear that murderers aren't the only toxic threat--modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

The “sinner” in this engrossing and strange novel is Robert Wringham, the son of a Scottish laird and a much more religious mother, who quickly separates from her free-living husband under the encouragement of an influential minister. When it’s time to be baptized, Robert takes the preacher’s last name, and a bit later the reverend decides that Robert is also one of God’s chosen. Robert believes that as a member of the elect he can never be damned, no matter what he does.

One day Robert becomes fast friends with a man with mysterious powers and a strange name. This Gil-Martin takes on the appearance of different people, and can even learn their “most secret thoughts.” He’s also good at arguing Scripture—and capitalizing on Robert’s pride, and other faults. Soon they’re scheming together to get the better of their enemies—and their plans include murder.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was a failure when it was first published anonymously in 1824, though it was ahead of its time in its blend of mystery, psychological horror, tall tales, comedy, metafiction, and social criticism. It was only in the twentieth century that it became more broadly known, gaining admirers that included the writers André Gide, Muriel Spark, Philip Pullman, and Ian Rankin.

During the late 13th‑early 14th century Scottish Wars of Independence, young Archie Forbes meets William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, joining their fight against English domination.

A gripping tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner's murder conviction and execution in 1937, set against the backdrop of racial injustice in 1930s Mississippi.