Books like The Shadow 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.

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

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

Lacy Stoltz, a Florida Board on Judicial Conduct investigator, uncovers a sweeping corruption scheme involving a judge, a casino, and the Coast Mafia, forcing her into a deadly battle for justice.

In the face of escalating attacks by animals against humans, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn the world that there will soon be nowhere left for humans to hide.

Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, is drawn into a murder investigation involving a young tennis star and her former fiancé.

American‑born, UK‑raised Scotland Yard detective Nicholas Drummond teams with FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich to stop an international thief from stealing the Koh‑i‑Noor diamond, forcing a high‑stakes pursuit that spans New York and London.

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.

Sierra Santiago discovers that the murals in her Brooklyn neighborhood are alive, revealing her family’s secret as shadowshapers—and she must confront an evil anthropologist to protect her loved ones.

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A New York steakhouse becomes the scene of a mob lawyer’s assassination, drawing a tense investigation as suspects, promises, and newspaper headlines collide in a pulse‑quickening thriller.

In 1933 New York, the Corleone crime family battles for dominance.

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.

A gripping crime thriller set in California that follows a private investigator as he navigates the underworld in search of truth.

A struggling New York art student stumbles upon a duffel bag of diamonds during a Grand Central attack and is hunted by a deadly assassin known as the Ghost.

In this thrilling collaboration with Alafair Burke, a kidnapping at New York’s Met Gala triggers a suspenseful investigation that unravels a cold‑case mystery, exposing the dangers of fame and media frenzy.

A serial killer has been terrorizing New York City, and only a renowned expert on criminal behavior can stop him.

When Jacob and Megan Brandeis join an ultra‑secretive retail conglomerate known only as The Store, they uncover a threat that could destroy everything they hold dear.

Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the place--not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily like her own. Yet Elsewhere harbors dark secrets--and Morton, an undersized boy with an outsize temper. As she and Morton form an uneasy alliance, Olive finds herself ensnared in a plan darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. It's up to Olive to save the house from the dark shadows, before the lights go out for good.

Eleven‑year‑old Olive and her parents move into a Victorian mansion, where mysterious paintings, a temperamental nine‑year‑old, and three talking cats reveal a dark plan that blurs magic, time and space.

A missing child case in New York raises a family's secrets and the lines between reality and fantasy.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.