Books like Spider bones by Kathy Reichs

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Detective Harry Bosch and rookie partner Lucia Soto reopen a decades‑old LAPD cold case when a stray bullet finally kills its victim, uncovering a politically charged mystery that turns out to be anything but random.

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.

Harper Connelly, a private investigator, is hired by a North Carolina town to locate a missing teenager. She discovers a pattern of vanished teens whose bodies lie buried in the frozen ground, and when the killers close in, she must decide how much she will risk to survive the investigation.

Veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger returns to the U.S. to investigate a murder that places him against powerful adversaries, blending sharp suspense and crime investigation.

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.

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan investigates a murder at Charlotte’s Lowes Motor Speedway during race week, uncovering a buried crime linked to a vanished high‑school driver and extremist group.

When a Montreal murder reveals a skeleton linked to an ancient dig, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan uncovers a global mystery that could rewrite 2,000 years of religious history.

Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli uncover a chilling pattern when two frozen bodies are discovered, each wearing Selena’s jewelry.

Lisa Jackson’s thriller follows a relentless serial killer targeting Montana residents, with a determined female detective racing to expose him before more innocents die.

A mysterious woman in a hospital with newborns and a killer in a diamond mine.

Sheriff Walt Fleming races against time in Sun Valley’s icy nights, chasing a missing skier, a dead teammate, and a vanished friend while uncovering a dangerous bio‑hazard that threatens the town and its powerful elites.

Gabriel Allon, famed art restorer and Israeli spy, is drawn into a Vatican conspiracy after a Swiss guard’s death sparks Suspicions of murder, putting him at odds with a ruthless Vatican figure and a looming assassination plot.

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.

"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.