Books like Obedience by Joseph Hansen

Isaac Asimov’s classic collection revisits the evolution of robotics through a series of interconnected short stories framed by Dr. Susan Calvin’s encounters with a reporter in the 21st century.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

Henry Rios, a sober gay activist in Los Angeles, defends a fellow gay man accused of murder while confronting hunger and homophobia in the city’s AIDS crisis.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.

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

In Lisbon, a mysterious 1941 murder unravels a half‑century‑old secret: a Portuguese bank founded on Nazi wartime deals. Inspector Zé Coelho probes the case, disturbing buried truths about wartime profiteering and dangerous alliances.

Veteran PI Dave Brandstetter returns from retirement to solve a brutal kidnapping and murder case tied to a pop guitarist’s drug‑related death, confronting street crime, political corruption, and the music industry’s darkest corners.