Books like Bitter River by Julia Keller

Detective Lindsay Boxer must solve a teen’s brutal murder and a missing newborn while navigating a career‑shaping verdict against a suspect accused of killing her husband, all under the watchful eye of her new supervisor.

Livvy, a woman haunted by the murder of her mother when she was five, confronts her trauma with the help of writer Noah as she hunts the truth behind her past.

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A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

A chilling crime mystery set in a small Southern town

A mystery in the floating city.

Three high school teenagers become serial killers while investigating a Spree Murders case.

Three elderly men gunned down at a diner, a prosecutor's daughter joins her mother in investigating a pattern of violence.

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

A Chinese mother and her adopted daughter, raised by an American couple, discover how a rare native tea links their worlds and transforms their family's destiny across cultures.

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

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

NYPD Red 2 follows Task Force investigators Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald as they pursue a vigilante serial killer claiming justice for unpunished crimes—a hunt that exposes political secrets and threatens their careers.

A war‑healed reporter in Washington, D.C., uncovers a tangled web of murder, corruption, and racial tension when the teenage daughter of a powerful judge is found dead in a slum.