Books like Nightingale's gate by Linda Francis Lee

A novel about a man who gives his daughter with Down syndrome to a nurse, sparking controversy and gaining widespread attention in the media.

In late‑nineteenth‑century Seattle, orphaned Karen works in a high‑quality brothel where a dangerous mind‑control machine threatens her world.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

Former FBI agent Kate Conlan and Special Agent John Quinn investigate a serial killer in Minneapolis who tortures, anoints, and burns his victims.

Detective Erika Foster follows a chilling trail from a frozen body in a South London park to the strangulated remains of three prostitutes, uncovering a sinister network beneath the city’s glittering surface.

When Public Defender Rian Coulter moved to Pensacola, Florida from Birmingham, she thought she'd escaped the specter of a vicious serial killer preying on young women. A killer that was never caught. Now, police are discovering new victims. All young women, all brutally savaged, all with their hands and feet bound together behind them. Unaware that the horror has followed her to her new home, Rian juggles her caseload and her family life. But when the car of the latest victim appears in her reserved parking space, she is dragged into the spotlight and must confront the truth: it's personal. As Rian desperately tries to uncover the identity of the killer, she is hounded by law enforcement, the media, and a powerful political party. She must walk the line between her duties to her community and her profession, knowing that by choosing one, she'll betray the other.

Wolfgang Jager has found himself on the wrong side of a world war. Esther Lange is trapped inside a war of her own. Can loving their enemies set them both free? Wolfgang Jager grew up in Mason City, Iowa. So, whats he doing fighting for the Germans? If only his parents hadnt moved back to their native Germany when they believed Hitler to be a hero. Its almost a relief when he is captured by the Americans and sent to a Wisconsin POW camp. When the darkness turns to nightmare and Wolfgang is accused of murder, can he stand firm in his faith - and snatch the woman he loves out of the mouths of lions?

"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.

A Civil War veteran turned novelist becomes an unlikely detective in Edwardian London, confronting serial murders that expose the city's hidden horrors.

A 19th‑century romance that follows Kassidy Maragon and British officer Raile DeWinter from an English castle to the battlefield of Waterloo and the glittering streets of London, where passion and honor collide.

Sisters and twins Brooke, a New York prosecutor, and Melanie, a supermodel, navigate careers, love, and betrayal in Manhattan while an obsessed killer threatens their lives.

A swan's grace: Sophie Hawthorne, the once-awkward but now-musical cellist, confronts the cold, forbidding Grayson Hawthorne in the first book of this gripping romance series set in Boston's elite society.

Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum returns to a grisly crime scene that forces her past to surface as a serial killer known as the Shark hunts her.

Margot Chesterton had reached the age of twenty, having always believed herself an orphan, before she learned that her father was still in fact alive and was believed to have emigrated on New Zealand. As Margot’s romance with Jonathan Worth had ended rather unhappily just then, it seemed rather a good idea to uproot herself for the time being and see if she could find her father. So off she set, and in the beautiful, still French town of Akaroa found what she could not help feeling was her spiritual home, so quickly did she settle down there and come to love it. But all this was not helping to find her father - nor was it helping to solve the problem of Pierre Lavereux, who refused to believe that Margot’s motives for being there were anything but sinister: an opinion of her that Margot would have given anything to have changed!