Books like The Kryptonite Kid by Joseph Torchia

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

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

A five‑year‑old boy and his mother are held in a small room, and the story unfolds through the boy’s perspective, highlighting the harrowing effects of captivity.

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An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

Kevin J. Anderson tells the story of Krypton’s final years, the failed warning of Jor‑El and Lara, the rise of General Zod, and the escape of baby Kal‑El—Krypton’s last gift to Earth.

Torchwood follows Captain Jack Harkness and his team as they investigate mysterious phenomena in South Wales, from ghostly apparitions to baffling medical cases threatening their own community.

"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.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

A seemingly perfect couple is torn apart by the girl's mother who preys on her lover, narrated by Janus, Tore’s hero‑worshipping friend.