Books like No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

After a celebrated Seattle architect mysteriously disappears, her daughter Bee searches for her by piecing together emails, documents, and family secrets. The novel blends humor and heart as it explores a mother‑daughter bond in a quirky, modern world.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

A Dublin detective returns to his hometown’s Faithful Place after a decades‑old missing‑person case pulls his former lover’s suitcase into his life, and he must confront family, crime, and loyalty to uncover the truth.

Twenty years after a summer camp tragedy in New Jersey, prosecutor Paul Copeland is forced to confront buried secrets when a new homicide links back to the missing teens, forcing him to face family ghosts and hidden truths.

A gripping thriller about a family dealing with their teenage son's potential suicide after a friend's suicide, with a twist of unexpected brutality.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

When a teenage girl is kidnapped, her family clings to hope until a woman claiming to be the lost daughter appears. The mother’s doubts propel a former detective into a tense search for truth.

In Linwood Barclay’s suspenseful thriller, a suburban Connecticut father, Tim Blake, races against time to locate his missing daughter, uncovering a hidden world of corruption and danger that threatens to unravel his life.

When her father enters witness protection, Kate’s idyllic life shatters. A year later, he’s gone into the blind “blue zone,” a murder surfaces, and the FBI is unreliable. Determined, Kate hunts truth behind a dangerous conspiracy.

An exhausted mother of three discovers her daughter's friend has vanished, setting off a tense search and a mystery that forces her to confront family secrets.

In the isolated Ozark town of Henbane, Lucy Dane’s search for her missing friend unearths a buried family secret and a chilling truth about her own mother, revealing how violence and secrecy haunt rural life.

Udo Berger tiene veinticinco años y su pasión son los juegos de guerra. También tiene independencia económica y una novia a la que ama, Ingeborg. La pareja pasa unos días en el lugar de la Costa Brava donde él veraneaba con su familia. Udo hace instalar en su habitación una gran mesa donde piensa nuevas estrategias para el Tercer Reich, su juego. Y por la noche van a una discoteca y conocen a Charly y Hanna, otra pareja de alemanes. Cuando bajan a la playa, el imprevisible Charly les introduce en la comunidad del lugar, plena de turbios personajes como el Lobo o el Cordero, que tanto pueden ser trabajadores de verano como mafiosos; Frau Else, la guapa encargada del hotel, o el Quemado, un hombre desfigurado y del que nadie sabe nada, aunque insinúan que es extranjero, que fue torturado en su país... El Tercer Reich, un texto inédito escrito en el año 1989, es una espléndida novela de la primera etapa de Roberto Bolaño, el feliz hallazgo de un ejercicio narrativo donde el autor despliega algunos de sus grandes temas, como las extrañas formas del nazismo, o que la cultura –los juegos, o la literatura– es la realidad.

An ordinary snapshot leads to a suburban mother's unraveling world as she tries to shield her children from her husband who has been found dead with a family photograph in his possession, and the revelation of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find Jack and the photo.

In 1872 Wigan, England, coal miners endure harsh lives beside lavish owners. Detective Jonathan Blair searches for a missing man, only to find himself drawn to Rose, a fiery pit girl defying Victorian expectations.

When new homeowner Zack Walker trades city life for suburban calm in Oakwood, he quickly discovers the quiet town hides a killer—and himself is suspected. His safety‑obsessed instincts clash with paranoia as he tries to clear his name and protect his family.

After a childhood friend goes missing two decades ago, Sandy Shortt turns her obsessive search for lost items into a career hunting missing people. When her own life vanishes, she must find her way back while helping others reclaim their loved ones.

Jamie and her mother travel to Chicago for a courtroom defense, but Jamie’s mind begins to unravel, fraught with mind slips, vivid daydreams, and a looming sense that she might be losing herself.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.

337 pages ; 21 cm