Books like Crash & burn by Lisa Gardner

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

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

When train passengers overhear fresh‑prison inmates flirting, a teenage girl’s instinct is triggered—and a year later a mysterious disappearance turns into a chilling stalker threat.

Detective Joona Linna returns from Sweden to chase a web of homicides tied to a clandestine arms deal, blending crime investigation with thriller suspense.

Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD cop Milo Sturgis team up to chase a serial killer whose twisted motives and clever tactics keep the police and forensic psychologists on their toes.

In 1974 Atlanta, a serial cop killer rattles the police department. To investigate, a conservative force stations two women detectives, Kate and Maggie—only to find themselves drawn into the very danger they seek to eliminate.

Deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell confronts a brutal gang war in booming North Dakota, while 12‑year‑old Kyle Westergaard, who stumbles upon a mysterious drug‑laden bundle, becomes the unlikely key to unraveling the violence that threatens their town.

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.

Investigating the brutal murders of two vacationing families in sunny Virginia Beach, FBI agents Ryan Sinclair and Buzz Crane suspect the work of a notorious serial killer and tap the skills of preeminent clinical expert Charlotte Stone, who is also the culprit's only known survivor.

FBI special agent Pierce Quincy teams with ex‑cop Rainie Connor to chase a psychopathic killer who preys on the minds of his victims, forcing them to confront the darkest fears close to home.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

A desperate survivor of a car crash searches for the missing child who could mean her life—while a police sergeant uncovers a web of danger around a woman with a rare brain injury.

"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.

In "Rage," psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis revisit a chilling 8‑year‑old kidnapping case to confront a haunting killer who may exact brutal revenge.

Senior police officer Richard Jury investigates a long‑forgotten murder of Tess, a wife whose death was ruled an accidental fall, possibly linked to a fatal incident at a children’s party and a recent tower collapse near his bars.