Books like Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver

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.

The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he unravels a conspiracy in Washington, D.C., using Freemasonry and cryptographic puzzles to uncover hidden truths.

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

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

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

William E. Dodd, America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, arrives in Berlin in 1933 to chronicle the early rise of Hitler—and the diplomatic tightrope his nation must navigate.

Set in 1855 England, this historical crime tale follows Edward Pierce, a daring rogue who plots the Great Train Robbery, targeting a monthly gold shipment to the Channel—an audacious heist that promises to shock the Victorian era.

After a deadly betrayal kills her friends and child, former CIA contract agent Lily Mansfield goes on the run as relentless CIA operative Lucas Swain hunts her—each move a high‑stakes game of revenge and surveillance.

Michael Corleone returns from a three‑year exile in Sicily to re‑enter America alongside young bandit Salvatore Giuliano, whose reckless acts have upset the Sicilian Mafia.

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.

Jake is a journalist in a post-World War II Berlin trying to solve the mystery of a murder and the disappearance of a scientist.

In 1837 London, Jack Maggs—once a skilled thief—returns from an Australian penal colony twenty years later, posing as a footman to pursue a hidden longing while confronting a scheming novelist and his own secrets.

In 1872 Wigan, England, coal miners endure harsh lives beside lavish owners. Detective Jonathan Blair searches for a missing man, only to find himself drawn to Rose, a fiery pit girl defying Victorian expectations.

A bumbling thief, Dortmunder, returns from the wild, sparking a police chase and a series of crimes across the city.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

When a business partner is framed for a murder, former cop Jack Till must locate the victim before her killers, the Turner twins, finish the job and outwit the shadowy employer.