Books like Down River by John Hart

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

On Beauty explores a New England family’s life as they confront love, identity, and cultural divides over three decades, weaving personal struggles with broader conversations about race and belonging.

Susannah Nelson, 50, returns to the garden she loved as a teenager, but the past she's trying to escape is still there, leading her to question everything about her life and relationships with her loved ones.

Nathan Byrn, the illegitimate son of a feared witch, must master his powers before his seventeenth birthday to avoid madness and death in a world torn between good and evil.

Set in post‑World War I Boston, _The Given Day_ follows two families—a black and a white—caught amid revolutionaries, anarchists, and a brewing union movement, culminating in the 1919 police strike.

Toby, injured and haunted, flees to his ancestral home where a buried skull and a newfound mystery force him to confront a past he thought he understood.

Thirteen‑year‑old Johnny Merrimon’s world shatters when his twin sister Alyssa disappears. Alone and determined, he believes she is still alive, forcing him to confront family secrets and strangers who doubt him.

After a tragic loss, Darby Lane seeks healing in her Baton Rouge hometown, finding new love with Russ’s brother Ben while her aunts help mend broken family ties.

A nostalgic look at the twisted bond between a son and his paranoid father, set across Australia, Paris, Thailand, and back home.

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

A ten‑year‑old boy and his estranged carny uncle team up in 1940s Chicago to unravel a drunk’s mysterious death, exposing a grim underworld and the bonds of fathers and sons.

"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.

Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator turned private detective, returns to New York to clear his name after being framed for assault.

A gripping tale of love, betrayal, and redemption inspired by Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', set on Plantation Island in South Florida. The story revolves around an old man, Kenzie Maxwell, who faces reconciliation with his brother after a scandal and his past mistakes.

Ben Joe Hawkes, a law student from a North Carolinian family, returns home to confront memories, family tensions, and unexpected feelings after a sister’s divorce.