Books like Avenging fury by John Farris

Harry Dresden, a wizard-for‑hire, investigates a grisly double murder fueled by black magic in this first installment of the Dresden Files.

In 1999 science‑fiction thriller "Timeline", Michael Crichton spins a tale of history students who hop back to 14th‑century France to rescue their professor, blending quantum‑theory concepts with adventurous time travel.

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

Former cop and mercenary Jack Reacher is thrust into a high‑stakes kidnapping case when a ransom car crashes in New York, forcing him to trace a ruthless soldier‑for‑hire to save two innocent lives.

A gripping thriller in which a vanished fisherman, strange marine organisms, and unsettling changes along the coast of British Columbia converge to warn of a looming oceanic catastrophe.

In a future where humanity spans 1,800 worlds, Alicia DeVries rises from the Marines to the Imperial Cadre, resigns after betrayal, survives a pirate massacre, and seeks vengeance with a Greek Fury and an AI‑controlled warship.

A Western romance novel featuring a woman with a sassy mouth and a marshal who vows to silence her with his lips.

When a foreign exchange student is found murdered on an Iowa campus, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from his small-town law office to the highest levels of U.S. government and the Gulf War, forcing him to confront a deadly biological threat.

James Rollins launches a high‑stakes thriller as elite covert operatives chase the stolen bones of the Three Magi across Germany, the Vatican, and the Seven Wonders, unearthing an ancient alchemical conspiracy that threatens humanity.

In midsummer Sweden, a murder of a female priest sends a small community into turmoil. Attorney Rebecka Martinsson returns to Kiruna and, alongside a determined policewoman, must unravel a sinister pattern that may claim another victim.

Dr. Dani Justice, a psychic investigator, must outwit a ruthless serial killer who has already murdered a senator’s daughter. Joined by FBI special officer Noah Bishop and an unconventional crime‑stopping collective, the hunt for the monster ends in blood, fire, and lingering danger.

"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.

Two teenagers, a wealthy family and a government assassin’s son, are linked by a terrifying psychic power that threatens humanity, drawing dangerous men into a showdown of horror.

Violante de Pallars: She was a rebel baron's daughter, a spirited woman taught to fight for her freedom and her desires. Isaac Ravalya: He was the queen's trusted advisor, a man of proud heritage, torn between his duty to his people and the reckless desire that drew him into peril again and again.

In Henry Kuttner’s 1948 space‑faring tale, the decadent, feudal city‑states under Venus’s toxic seas are ruled by immortal genetic throwbacks. Exiled heir Sam Harker rises to challenge the oppressive regime and aims to free humanity from the Keeps.

A medical thriller in which a series of unexplained, deadly illnesses linked to toxic mine waste forces an emergency physician, a Massachusetts coroner, and a retired teacher to race against time to uncover a conspiracy before more lives are lost.

Natalie Lindstrom, a former psychic investigator, leaves a career of interrogating dead victims to protect her daughter in California. When a new murder trial threatens her new life, she is pulled back into a dangerous game of vengeance.