Books like Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs

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.

Temperance Brennan investigates a series of brutal murders of elderly women, including a missing heiress, as she confronts accusations of mishandling evidence and an unknown foe threatening her career and life.

In the eleventh Temperance Brennan thriller, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan investigates a sinister underground chamber in Charlotte, North Carolina, uncovering a ritual, a headless body, and a shocking mystery behind Satanic symbols.

Dr. Temperance Brennan must confront a resurfacing child‑murderer as the Charlotte PD Cold Case Unit investigates a new victim in Vermont and North Carolina, risking her own demons to stop the relentless psychopath.

An anatomist investigates a murder in Oxfordshire’s elite society.

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.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

A suspenseful mystery featuring a female sleuth who investigates missing persons amid supernatural clues and the backdrop of a wedding.

Judge Knott's murder mystery in Beaufort, North Carolina, with a past lover as the suspect.

An amateur sleuth discovers a chilling tape that may link a missing teen to the bones in a forensic lab – a chilling mystery that ensues when a forensic anthropologist follows the lead into the backwoods.

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan revisits a Cold‑War era murder when a man's body, long declared dead, is rediscovered under unsettling circumstances.

"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.

Uncommon Clay follows Deborah Knott, a woman judge in North Carolina, as she delves into the pottery scene while navigating mystery and detective work.

Deborah Knott, a lawyer in North Carolina, tries to become a judge but becomes entangled in an old murder case and must solve the mystery to stay in the race for election.

In Margaret Maron's atmospheric thriller 'Storm Track,' Judge Deborah Knott faces a chilling murder mystery amid an impending North Carolina hurricane, blending legal intrigue with atmospheric suspense.

Synthetic forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates a mysterious canvas bag found on North Carolina’s Lake Mountain, uncovering bone fragments that hint at a missing young graduate student.

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