Books like The Keeper by Margot Early

After a tragic gunshot wound, former chief detective Carl Mørck is reassigned to cold‑case work, where he is drawn into a five‑year investigation of a missing Danish politician.

An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

"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.

Businessman and fisherman Cleese Starrett battles both the river and a reluctant love interest in this contemporary romance.

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.

Jake Gallegher made her want to break the rules, to flirt with the danger in his eyes--but impetuous, sexy Mallory Bennett wondered if challenging the gorgeous restaurant owner would get her kicked out... or get her kissed! Jake wanted desperately to be alone with her, to explore the powerful chemistry that sparked between them. Mallory trembled beneath the look that told her he could read her thoughts... and shivered when his touch promised he'd make her every fantasy real--but bitter experience had taught her a man might want more than her love. Her family wealth had cushioned her life, and friends had protected her from faithless lovers, now all bets were off. The more Jake learned about Mallory, the more he wanted to know, but his mysterious lady kept too many secrets. Once shed given him her body, admitted her fears, and spoken her dreams--could she finally trust him with her love?

In Bedford, Maine, a town in decline, the mysterious Susan Marley rises from local legend to haunting presence, stalking the streets and invading dreams as darkness spreads.

When a mysterious manuscript surfaces, New York editor Jen Gibbs is pulled into the perilous world of Sarra, a mixed‑race Appalachian girl, uncovering a story that may cost her career and the mountains she thought she’d left behind.