Books like Cold Grave by Kathryn Fox

When a young girl's skeleton is found in the neighborhood of a long‑missing childhood friend, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan must decide whether the two victims are the same person.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta confronts a flawless, serial sniper whose copper‑stained bullets murder without trace, forcing her to chase the killer from New Jersey to Florida while uncovering a shocking family secret.

"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.

Detective Temperance Brennan unravels a tangled web of mummified dogs, a dead businessman, and a teenage hit‑run victim, uncovering a human‑trafficking ring that extends from Peru to Afghanistan and implicates her soon‑to‑be ex.

Forensic pathologist and physician, Dr. Anya Crichton does not just examine the dead. She also treats survivors of sexual assault, and the women she now sees compel her to follow the trail of a violent serial rapist—who is becoming more brutal with each attack. When two new victims are stabbed to death, suspicion immediately falls on Geoffrey Willard, recently released from twenty years in prison for the vicious rape and murder of a teenage girl.As the community demands justice, Anya faces the greatest ethical dilemma of her career. If Willard is innocent, her forensic evidence will destroy a respected pathologist's reputation. If Anya is wrong, she has ensured not only that a seasoned killer goes free, but that he remains unstoppable.Only the killer knows a mistake has been made. One that is about to prove fatal . . .

A cold case in France sets off a clash of wine and the criminal underworld.

In The Devil Doctor, Fu‑Manchu returns to Great Britain with his assassins, the secret Si‑Fan, plotting to subvert the nation while fiercely guarding his own mysteries.

A homicide detective in Sydney teams with a cold‑efficient partner and her brother to solve a gruesome harbor‑borne serial murder that echoes their own scarred pasts.