Books like Edge by Jeffery Deaver

A psychological thriller about a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh, and a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology who must outmaneuver him.

Jack Reacher is thrust into a desperate 61‑hour battle to protect a lone woman in Bolton, South Dakota, after a tour bus crashes in a brutal snowstorm and a cold‑blooded assassin begins to hunt them both.

Alex Cross, the FBI agent, returns as a psychologist in D.C., tracking a serial rapist that resurfaces from a past case involving his wife's murder.

Detective Alex Cross tackles a brutal serial‑murder case in Washington, D.C., while a dangerous plastic surgeon and other dark forces threaten to derail the investigation.

When Christmas Eve turns into a tense hostage crisis, Detective Alex Cross leaves his family behind to confront a rapidly escalating threat, showcasing his skillful negotiation and relentless pursuit of justice.

A relentless mastermind turns Alex Cross’s devotion into a deadly game, threatening the family he loves most.

Detective Alex Cross faces a deadly stalker who has seized his family, forcing him to negotiate with a psychotic mastermind to save those he loves.

Intern Dr. Peter Brown battles a dangerous dual life when a terminal patient suspects he may be a hit‑man, forcing him to confront mob threats and his own past to protect those around him.

Detective Alex Cross races against time to rescue the President’s children and stop a water‑borne contagion that could devastate Washington, D.C., while powerful forces keep him in the shadows.

When crime lord Manuel Perrine escapes prison, he seeks revenge on Detective Michael Bennett and everyone he loves. A tense hunt unfolds as the FBI’s witness‑protection program shelters Bennett’s family on a rural California farm.

FBI profiler Alex Cross confronts a chilling threat when the notorious killer Gary Soneji—believed dead for ten years—appears alive, gun in hand.

I, Michael Bennett is a fiction thriller by James Patterson.

Teresa Casali can read memories, a gift that turns deadly when her mob‑boss father exploits her. With the help of enigmatic protector Andre Mandak, she assumes a new identity and must use her powers to survive and expose the betrayal that threatens her life.

On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has more murders planned in the hours to come. Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined to his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner and longtime love, Amelia Sachs, to walk the grid and be his eyes and ears on the street. But Sachs has other commitments now -- namely, her first assignment as lead detective on a homicide of her own. As she struggles to balance her pursuit of the infuriatingly elusive Watchmaker with her own case, Sachs unearths shocking revelations about the police force that threaten to undermine her career, her sense of self and her relationship with Rhyme. As the Rhyme-Sachs team shows evidence of fissures, the Watchmaker is methodically stalking his victims and planning a diabolical criminal masterwork.... Indeed, the Watchmaker may be the most cunning and mesmerizing villain Rhyme and Sachs have ever encountered.

When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier -- a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy: Not only were they apprehended, they even left behind a survivor -- the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that terrible night, was dubbed the Sleeping Doll. But the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the crime's mastermind. Indeed, Pell has long been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola superprison to an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent murder -- and to learn more about the depraved mind of this career criminal who considers himself a master of control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they otherwise would never conceive of doing. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell. But when Dance's plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of dead and injured, she finds herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from simply fleeing, Pell turns on his pursuers --and other innocents -- for reasons Dance and her colleagues can't discern. As the idyllic Monterey Peninsula is paralyzed by the elusive killer, Dance turns to the past to find the truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the now teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again?

Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs investigate a brutal triple murder in Manhattan’s Diamond District, chasing the killer known as the Promisor who strikes during engagement‑ring purchases.

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

A novel on the witness protection program.