Books like Sleeping bones by Katherine V. Forrest

The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he unravels a conspiracy in Washington, D.C., using Freemasonry and cryptographic puzzles to uncover hidden truths.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

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.

Eve Dallas investigates three smiling murder victims—a engineer, a lawyer and a politician—and uncovers a sinister link between virtual reality gaming and a deadly new method of suicide.

A young detective battles for her life in Half Moon Bay during the Fourth of July celebration.

Eve Dallas returns to her New York precinct for a birthday party, only to confront a long‑suppressed killer from her past—Julie Dockport—whose plan spirals into a deadly, personal showdown.

A Southern lawyer battles corrupt law enforcement and a malevolent terrorist group to defend his father, whose decades‑old murder charge unearths dark secrets from the civil‑rights era in Mississippi.

Two timelines converge in Boston as a modern investigator and a 19th‑century medical student race to solve a series of murders tied to a buried skull and a kidnapped baby.

"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.

Kate Delafield, a lesbian policewoman in Los Angeles, investigates the murder of a gay restaurateur while fearing exposure of her own sexuality in a trial where the killer’s lawyer threatens a “homosexual panic” defense.

LAPD detective Kate Delafield unravels a revenge killing that ties a 1940s Hollywood legend to the House Un-American Activities Committee, uncovering long‑hidden curses amongst her eccentric neighbors in Los Angeles.

After two patrons are murdered on successive nights at a play, detective Kathy Mallory investigates the killings and mystery chalkboard messages backstage.

Lost Girls is a provocative erotic graphic novel that follows three women, Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy, as they navigate personal and sexual discovery through the imaginative worlds of Wonderland, Neverland, and Oz, set against a contemporary Austrian backdrop.

A lesbian romance and mystery set in Australia, following a police inspector who must protect a visiting American feminist from conservative threats.

Unwed, unemployed, and broke, Southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney turns to her detective instincts in the Mississippi town of Zinnia to solve a murder and protect her family plantation, all while a ghost from the past watches her every move.

LAPD detective Kate Delafield teams with a new iron-willed lieutenant to investigate a brutal murder at the La Brea Tar Pits, uncovering secrets that blur ancient history with present-day corruption.

When lesbian detective Kate Delafield is shot by a police officer during a burglary, her recovery uncovers a sinister anti‑gay conspiracy within the Los Angeles Police Department.

After a Vietnam reunion invitation, former soldiers confront hidden threats when a hotel room is attacked, turning a nostalgic gathering into a perilous investigation for a police officer and veteran alike.

A police lieutenant in Atlanta who stumbles upon a murder mystery.

Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling suspense novel featuring his renowned characters Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.

Rina Lazarus finds human remains in nearby woods, prompting her husband, FBI agent Peter Decker, to investigate a decades‑old cold case and confront a hidden suspect.