Books like Sliver of Truth by Lisa Unger

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher pulls a quiet life in Key West, cleaning swimming pools, until a private detective’s brutal murder forces him into action.

When a past tragedy resurfaces, a woman who built a seemingly perfect family and career must confront the secrets that could destroy it all.

After a seemingly trivial decision, a privileged young woman discovers her world is built on lies—forcing her to confront family secrets, hidden enemies, and a dangerous lover in this fast‑paced thriller.

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?As each step closer to the truth exposes yet another layer of deceit, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil resides, protected--until now--by the power of silence.

FBI Special Agent Emmy Dockery’s razor‑sharp investigative instincts are tested when a nationwide string of seemingly accidental deaths baffles her and puts her ally, Harrison "Books" Bookman, on suspicions.

When a local girl vanishes in the quiet town of Brindle, reporter Todd Fielding must uncover a decades‑old pattern of disappearances, despite the town’s indifference and a looming threat of silence for those who dig too deep.