Books like The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke

When a fatal crime shatters his family, former detective Amos Decker must use his impossible photographic memory to uncover the truth behind the murders that defied him, while facing the painful past he cannot escape.

The final chapter of the Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney mystery series sees the Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield return to the grid, forcing the detectives to confront his new‑age, suicidal clientele.

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.

James Ellroy’s gritty noir jazz in 1958 Los Angeles follows corrupt LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein as federal investigators turn the city’s underworld into a deadly prison of power and betrayal.

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.

Private investigator Lucas Davenport unravels a chilling summer cycle of murders that has plagued a Minnesota farmyard for years.

Detective Michael Bennett returns to New York with his family after dismantling a crime lord’s empire. When a charred body appears in a ruined building that once hosted a strange party, Bennett dives into a hidden criminal underworld he never expected.

A witty, light‑hearted cosy mystery unfolding in Gurgaon and Lutyens's New Delhi, where a playful investigation into a missing servant exposes the quirks and customs of contemporary Indian society.

In Las Vegas, a corrupt restaurant owner lures young women into a deadly business, while Los Angeles detective Jack Morgan follows leads that bring him into the city of sin and a murder-for-hire ring.

In "Burning Angel" veteran detective Dave Robicheaux faces a tangled web of crime and secrets in New Orleans as he investigates a fixer‑gambler and a mysterious notebook with ties to Latin America.

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

Larry McMurtry revisits the fading American frontier in this biographical historical novel, following the late careers of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as they navigate a world of disappearing buffalo, conquered plains and the echoes of the iconic O.K. Corral gunfight.

Former detective Dave Robicheaux, a Vietnam vet and ex-cop, settles into Louisiana bayou life with his wife. A Gulf plane crash introduces a young girl and unravels a web of murder, deception and local crime.

Dennis Lenahan, a daredevil at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, finds his thrill killed when he witnesses a mob hit during a high-dive, plunging him into a deadly game of organized crime.

In Delhi, ex‑Private India chief Santosh Wagh must confront personal demons as he investigates a murder case tied to corrupt officials and buried human remains at a government site.

Retired detectives J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker reunite to unravel a cold case that stretches from a vanished prospector to a Seattle homicide, as they confront suspects, past injustices and a looming killer who may own the key to the truth.

Detective Dave Robicheaux tackles a brutal double homicide in New Iberia, Louisiana, while battling personal demons and a city’s hidden darkness.

In the bleak midwinter, newly ordained priest Clare Fergusson faces suspicion in Millers Kill after a baby is abandoned and a mother is murdered, forcing her to navigate town secrets and a tense partnership with Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne.