Books like The Black Book by James Patterson

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.

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

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.

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.

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.

The 23rd novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross mystery series follows the seasoned detective through a new homicide investigation in a glamorous North Carolina setting.

Alex Cross is charged with murdering followers of his nemesis, thrust into a legal battle that threatens his career and freedom while he, with former partner John Sampson, investigates a series of missing young girls linked to a dangerous internet cult.

When a celebrity film premiere turns deadly, NYPD Red’s elite detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald race through Manhattan’s glitter and grit to uncover a ruthless killer before he strikes again.

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.

Detective Jordan and his partner investigate a killer targeting the wealthy in New York City.

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.

When a medium contacts the police department with claims about a murder at a rural home for wayward girls, detective Joona Linna investigates bizarre clues only to find himself confronting more violent truths and a figure from his past.

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

Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate the mysterious death of 99‑year‑old Thalia Mars, whose past of secrets and violence leads a tangled New York‑based murder mystery.

Detective Zach Jordan and partner Kylie MacDonald of the elite NYPD Red task force uncover a chilling conspiracy while investigating a billionaire’s missing son, threatening New York’s powerful elite.

"In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policy makers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s."--Provided by publisher.

A thrilling, psychological thriller as a pair of FBI agents investigates a serial murderer who is targeting the most powerful families in New York City.

A mystery set in 1969 Connecticut, Captain Carmine Delmonico investigates a series of murders connected to a lethal toxin theft and a scientist accused of framing the killer.

NYPD Red 2 follows Task Force investigators Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald as they pursue a vigilante serial killer claiming justice for unpunished crimes—a hunt that exposes political secrets and threatens their careers.

Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae is left on a remote Aberdeenshire outpost after catching a killer, only to be pulled back into a brutal murder investigation when a girl's body washes up near Banff, putting him and the town in danger.