Books like Black water by Louise Doughty

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.

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

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

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

363 pages ; 22 cm

Amber awakens in a hospital coma, unable to move or speak, and must confront a sudden paralysis, the mystery of her accident, and her husband's possible involvement while her fragmented memories and childhood diaries resurface.

Former MI5 spy turned BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong must confront dangerous foes from her World War II past when her old enemies stalk her in London after decades of quiet life.

A young Jewish writer, targeted by McCarthyism, bargains with the nascent CIA to spy in a war‑torn Berlin, only to discover his true mission is to watch the woman he once loved.

"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, Brand tries to become again the man he was before the war--honest, strong, capable of moral choice. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he suspects he's being used by his cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late." -- jacket.

When a man presumed dead is found alive, a small Maine town is thrust into turmoil and a young woman’s quest for truth threatens to expose hidden sins and dangerous secrets.

A spy thriller set against the backdrop of World War II Paris, focusing on Jean Casson's tumultuous romance and moral compromises during the occupation.

A thrilling spy novel set against the backdrop of World War II, following a cargo ship captain's dangerous mission to help Britain's allies fight Nazi Germany's submarines and ships, as well as smuggle equipment to a Swedish coast operation to aid the war effort.

In Salonika during the 1940 Greek defense of the Balkan front, former police official Costa Zannis navigates espionage, danger, and complex relationships as he plots an escape route from Berlin to Turkey amid looming Nazi invasion.