Books like The case of the Chinese boxes by Marele Day

Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, confronts a trapped vampire and his human agent who must use necromantic powers to control the dead.

After her husband's death, American food writer Maggie McElroy learns a paternity claim has been filed in China against his estate. She travels to Beijing to investigate, interviewing a half‑American, half‑Chinese chef and uncovering unexpected truths.

In Egypt, a sleepless dreamer uncovers a mysterious web of secrets, weaving intrigue and suspense into a haunting literary exploration that leads to a chilling climax.

A powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement featuring a young man transported for a murder he did not commit.

"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.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

329 p. ; 21 cm