Books like Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

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.

Detective Erlendur investigates a shallow grave, uncovering hidden tales of Reykjavik's past.

Detective Lindsay Boxer faces two intertwined murders in San Francisco, racing against time to solve a brutal shooting and a jewel heist while her personal life teeters.

A snowbound Catskills inn turns deadly as guests are washed out of contact during a blizzard, and one by one they begin to die in what seems like a sinister murder mystery.

After a suspicious car accident kills her best friend’s family, Amish woman Kate Burkholder keeps a vigil for an injured survivor who may hold the key to a brutal murder. She investigates the killer, confronting shattered assumptions about her own community.

Chief Kate Burkholder investigates a series of deaths in a small Amish town, uncovering a buried tragedy that connects the present murders to a massacre that occurred thirty‑five years ago.

Investigator Vera Stanhope hunts a young man's murderer and discovers a web of secrets within a tightly-knit English town.

Detective Maeve Kerrigan is at a wedding weekend in the English countryside, hoping to escape London’s endless crime scenes. But when a fellow officer is murdered in a London park, she and her partner, DI Josh Derwent, must race back to solve the case.

Chief Kate Burkholder infiltrates a secluded Amish community to investigate a girl's death, uncovering dark secrets while risking her life and confronting her own past.

"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.

Police chief Kate Burkholder battles a new serial killer in Painters Mill, Ohio, while holding a dangerous secret about a 16‑year‑old cold case that tied the town’s Amish and English communities together.

When Sara Douglas returns to Cape Darkwood to investigate her parents’ murder, she is drawn into a tense reunion with Nick Tyson—now chief of police—whose own past and the town’s buried secrets set the stage for a dangerous love and a looming threat.

After a tornado unearths human remains in Painters Mill, Amish Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must solve a thirty‑year‑old murder, uncovering buried secrets while her personal life with state agent John Tomasetti teeters on the brink.