Books like Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

Amy leads a small group of survivors on an insurrection against virals, leading the Second Viral War.

Two widowers in upstate New York pursue trout in Dutchman's Creek and uncover a dark, ancient secret tied to the Ashokan Reservoir, forcing them to confront loss and the price of reclaiming what they lost.

A satirical psychological drama that weaves humor and suspense while exploring themes of liberty, technology, and family relationships in contemporary settings.

Two British soldiers become unlikely friends in Cold War espionage and today's world of terrorism.

A Harvard law professor becomes entangled in a high-level government conspiracy as she fights to clear her husband of a brutal crime he insists he didn't commit.

An ordinary snapshot leads to a suburban mother's unraveling world as she tries to shield her children from her husband who has been found dead with a family photograph in his possession, and the revelation of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find Jack and the photo.

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

Adam Lang, Britain's controversial prime minister, hires a new ghostwriter to complete his memoirs. However, the newly assigned writer discovers an even darker past and deadly secrets that put the entire country in danger.

Lena, a former student activist living on an unnamed island nation ten years after a brutal regime’s fall, suspects a powerful senator—a man she once dated—of murder, yet she remains silent due to her family's past and lack of proof.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

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A tense thriller set in New York’s corporate world, where a high‑stakes telephone company merger pits executives and employees against dramatic power plays and hidden agendas.

Borne follows two humans in a desolate, post‑industrial world: Rachel, a scavenger, and Wick, a drug dealer, as they confront secretive dangers and survive alongside mysterious, biotech‑derived creatures named Mord and Borne.

A marine biologist discovers a Great White Shark that's pregnant, unaware of the terrifying monster lurking just below the surface.

A group of executives is held hostage in a luxurious business retreat by a group of backwoods hunters, with the goal of demanding a ransom of unprecedented size.