Books like The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

Alex Cross investigates a network of slave traders who are buying and selling beautiful women as slaves.

When the first snow falls in Oslo, a missing‑mothers investigation leads Inspector Harry Hole into a deadly serial‑killer game that threatens to unhinge him.

Stone Barrington tackles a high‑stakes mystery when his wealthy client’s quest to repel a persistent admirer spirals into murder. The investigation uncovers an elusive, priceless historic jewelry piece that may be the motive for deadly crime.

Former superstar couple Thom and Jennifer Harlow vanish from their ranch, sparking a private‑investigation by famed agent Jack Morgan into secrets of fame, family, and financial ruin.

Stone Barrington, a private investigator in New York, finds himself embroiled in a dangerous mystery when a nighttime encounter leads to a dead body and a high-profile murder involving a famous TV anchor.

Former CIA operative Lemuel Gunn turns to private investigation in New Mexico, where a mysterious bail bonds case and a vanished drug dealer pull him into a tense, drug‑fueled thriller.

Private investigator Cal Weaver and detective Barry Duckworth uncover a dark secret in Promise Falls after a mysterious hidden room and a series of murders link the town’s past to its present.

Private detective Charlie Parker is hired to uncover the identity of a young woman found dead in Maine’s woods, along with her missing child, while another mysterious party seeks something more.

In Cairo’s seedy underbelly, a former Sudanese police inspector turned private detective investigates a high‑profile kidnapping that pulls him into a web of corruption, crime, and personal trauma.

"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.

Retired detective Sid Halley is drawn back into danger when racing authority chairman Sir Richard Stewart seeks his help investigating suspected race‑fixing. With the chairman dead and threats mounting, Sid must confront the underworld to protect his family.

Prince Varis turns to forbidden necromancy to seize the Wolf throne, but his plot is challenged by his niece Shalindra, whose devotion to her brother Cerrov threatens to unravel his dark ambitions.

"Alex Mcknight has a souvenir of his days as a cop - a bullet lodged too near his heart to be removed. He also has a guilty conscience about the death of his partner in that same shooting, and now he is left alone in his spartan log cabin, taking his meals at the nearby roadhouse, finding company there when he wants it - and not when he doesn't.". "But it doesn't work that way. When a young Native American woman comes to him asking for help, McKnight feels bound to protect her. He ensconces her in an unoccupied cabin that he owns - and finds her gone the following morning.". "McKnight is convinced that the woman's ex-lover, a particularly vicious member of the reservation hockey team, who McKnight outfaced in a recent game, has kidnapped her. Fearing for her life, he begins a frantic search, swatting away his self-appointed "partner" - the town's favorite fool - until the man surprises him. It's a search that leads to encounters with a variety of unsavory types, each with his own agenda, and to some extremely unpleasant discoveries by McKnight himself as he forcibly learns that criminal sadism knows no geographic boundaries and that the motives of both good and evil people can lead to disaster."--BOOK JACKET.

When Emily Kane finds her family missing at her sister’s house in Las Vegas, she turns to former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to uncover a decades‑old cover‑up and a trail of bodies.

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.