Books like The white ghost by James R. Benn

In 1896 New York City, reporter John Schuyler Moore partners with psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and police secretary Sara Howard to pioneer a psychological profile of a serial murderer, confronting the era’s gritty underbelly and institutional skepticism.

Former military cop Jack Reacher finds himself protecting a young woman and her child in West Texas, only to uncover buried secrets that ignite a deadly confrontation on a remote ranch.

In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers , "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest...and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.

Lieutenant Billy Boyle of the Boston Police and General Ike’s European forces is drawn into a chilling serial‑murder investigation during World War II.

When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Polish Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, investigate amid the secretive Operation Tiger rehearsal for the D‑Day invasion, uncovering a web of intrigue at Ashcroft manor.

Blue Madonna follows former Boston cop-turned‑Army detective Billy Boyle as he is court‑martialed and sent behind enemy lines in France on the eve of D‑Day to uncover murders and evade Nazi pursuers.

A Palm Beach widow hires a real‑estate investigator to uncover the hidden history of a supposedly haunted, historic house slated for demolition, revealing Civil War secrets and a chain of tragic deaths.

When a deadly secret from Lincoln’s era resurfaces, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone must race across the globe to uncover a centuries‑old conspiracy that could unravel the United States.

Los Alamos is a gripping thriller about the Manhattan Project, the invention of the atomic bomb, and the dangerous consequences of a scientist's infidelity.