Books like Maps of hell by Johnston, Paul

An action-packed thriller about a sports agent who rescues a missing teen golfer during a major golf tournament and uncovers a web of lies and secrets.

A woman whose secret past threatens to destroy her family is forced to choose between protecting her loved ones and saving an innocent man from being convicted of a long‑forgotten murder.

After a cornea transplant, crime‑writer Rachel de Luca begins seeing vivid visions of murders—real crimes tied to the dead brother of detective Mason Brown, who keeps a secret of organ donation. Together they must unravel a deadly link between sight, death, and a lingering killer.

A tense wilderness mystery set in Maine, where a game warden investigates a cold murder and uncovers a web of secrets.

A retired college professor takes it upon himself to rescue a teenage girl kidnapped and tormented by a sadistic pair whose brutal acts are livestreamed online, following a police investigation that stalls.

Four-year-old missing child found in grave 20 years later sparks a mystery in small Ohio town.

From the author of "The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity", this book examines a central theme in Western Culture: The Centuries-Old Notion Of Hell - Exile From God, Subjection To fire, worms and darkness. In this study, Alan Bernstein investigates just How And Why Belief In Hell Arose. Although We May Associate The Notion Of hell with Christian beliefs, its gradual emergence depended on Conflicting Notions That Pervaded The Mediterranean World More Than A millennium before the birth of Christ. Bernstein takes us back to those times and offers us a view of the philosophy, poetry, folklore, myth and theology of that formative age.; Drawing on sources from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Israel, as well as early Christian writings, the author reconstructs the story of the prophets, priests and poets who fashioned concepts of hell from an array of perspectives on death and justice. The author traces hell's formation through close readings of works including the epics of Homer and Virgil, the satires of Lucian, the dialogues of Plato and Plutarch, the legends of Enoch, the confessions of the Psalms, the prophecies of Isaiah, Ezechiel and Daniel and the parables of Jesus. Re-enacting debates about the nature of hell among the common people and the elites of diverse religious traditions, he provides new insight into the social implications and the psychological consequences of different visions of the afterlife. This book aims to captivate readers interested in history, mythology. literature, psychology, philosophy and religion. It should be of use to ancient historians, classicists, theologists, and cultural historians.

Widowed journalist Patrick Rush joins a candlelit writing circle, only to discover a serial killer stalking Toronto whose murders mirror a story the group writes.

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.