Books like Extreme Prey by John Sandford

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

Jack Reacher, a solitary ex‑military investigator, is enlisted by a Secret Service agent to detect weaknesses in the protection of the U.S. vice president, only to find himself targeted by a covert group already plotting the president’s assassination.

Lawyer‑turned‑serial killer "Maddog" Vullion sets a deadly game in Minneapolis, forcing elite cop Lucas Davenport to outwit him using his own strategic mind.

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

Detective Lucas Davenport investigates a brutal double homicide in Minneapolis, where a young woman and later a man are discovered strangled and displayed, leading him to suspect a serial killer driven by a disturbed mind.

When a friend of his adopted daughter reports a serial killer targeting traveling panhandlers, private investigator Lucas Davenport is drawn into North Dakota, where he uncovers a violent subculture and a deadly conspiracy.

The third entry in John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport series, a gritty Minneapolis police procedural where detective Lucas Davenport confronts a dangerously unpredictable villain who uses his medical knowledge and drugs to wreak havoc.

In southeast Minnesota, a school board vote to allow a local reporter to be killed triggers a mystery, as Virgil Flowers investigates a dognapping ring that has expanded into medical labs and a murder.

In Wyoming’s remote Black Hills, game warden Joe Pickett lands at a mysterious ranch where rumours of hidden wealth and murder swirl. He must uncover the truth while confronting dangerous locals and unexpected betrayal.

Private investigator Lucas Davenport unravels a chilling summer cycle of murders that has plagued a Minnesota farmyard for years.

Detective Lucas Davenport and the feared assassin Clara Rinker cross paths again in a Minneapolis police thriller that turns into a deadly revenge chase.

A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.

Detective Joona Linna returns from Sweden to chase a web of homicides tied to a clandestine arms deal, blending crime investigation with thriller suspense.

Detective Michael Bennett returns to New York with his family after dismantling a crime lord’s empire. When a charred body appears in a ruined building that once hosted a strange party, Bennett dives into a hidden criminal underworld he never expected.

Karin Slaughter’s Faithless follows medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver as they investigate a buried‑alive murder in Georgia, uncovering family secrets, police corruption and a killer more dangerous than imagined.

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.

Lucas Davenport, a federal marshal, confronts former nemesis Taryn Grant—a wealthy psychopath now serving as a U.S. senator—while investigating her alleged involvement in three murders and her hidden influence in Congress.

Security chief Lucas Davenport finds himself hunted by a vengeful ex-thief and a powerful robbery crew during the Republican convention in Minneapolis.

Detective Lucas Davenport investigates a series of strangulation murders linked by grotesque erotic drawings, uncovering a deadly web of deceit tied to a local university and its students.

Model murder sparks a media frenzy and a hunt by private investigator Lucas Davenport, who must confront a suspect from his own ranks and a string of inexplicable killings hinting at a chilling, hidden conspiracy.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

When Amanda Pierce vanishes on her wedding day, investigative TV host Laurie Moran teams with her crew to reconstruct the night at Florida’s Grand Victoria Hotel, uncovering hidden motives and a cold case that threatens to stay buried.

Psychologist and detective Alex Delaware is drawn back into his past when teen‑turned‑stripper Lauren Teague is found murdered, forcing him to investigate her life and the South California sex trade.

"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.

Lucas Davenport tracks a deadly hitwoman, Clara Rinker, after a contract in Minnesota turns deadly, drawing him into a perilous hunt across Minneapolis and beyond.

When a former journalist settles back into his hometown of Promise Falls, New York, a hidden family secret and a series of brutal killings force him to confront the town’s dark past and his own doubts.

Ex‑cop turned PI, Pericles "Perry" Christo, is hired by a wealthy Upper East Side matron to find her daughter Angelina, only to uncover a tangled web of danger and deception that threatens everyone involved.