Books like The furies by Mark Alpert

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

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

Breq, a former warship turned soldier, traverses the galaxy on a quest to protect a lieutenant’s family at Athoek Station—and confront their buried past.

Teenager Zack Lightman’s realistic world is upended when a real alien spacecraft, mirroring the online flight‑sim game *Armada*, appears—prompting him and gamers worldwide to defend Earth from a looming invasion.

The Passage is Justin Cronin’s 2010 debut novel that blends science‑fiction, horror, and dystopian themes as it follows humanity’s struggle against a virus‑transformed vampire‑like threat.

A physicist in South Dakota, 17 years after a girl fell into a giant metal hand beneath the earth, leads a team investigating its origins and implications for humanity.

A tech‑savvy employee’s journey into a powerful internet company spirals from ambition to obsession, revealing the dark side of data privacy, social media, and a future where surveillance and corporate control blur boundaries.

Woken Furies is a high‑octane space opera by Richard K. Morgan that follows cyber‑mercenary Takeshi Kovacs as he confronts betrayal, mystery and revenge across the stars, blending noir sensibilities with a futuristic vision of an age where death is nearly meaningless.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

Former Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman, nearly released from a 20‑year sentence, receives a pardon and is relocated to a quiet Italian town under a new identity.

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance in the Vorkosigan Saga series by Lois McMaster Bujold.

On the warship *Glorious Fool*, mercenary Deviana Morris guards a crew of elite fighters and finds herself drawn into dangerous missions, a mysterious captain, and a complex relationship with the ship’s enigmatic cook.

"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.

The Furies traces the United States from 1836 to 1852, weaving the Kent family’s fictional journey with real historical events and figures.

When a blood‑shed bank robbery at the Monaco Grand Prix drains a corporation’s funds, Juan Cabrillo teams up with an ex‑CIA ally to chase a rogue hacker and a former Ukrainian naval officer, uncovering a centuries‑old plot that could collapse global economies.

The second book in the Menagerie novel series. Meet the Menagerie—as hodge-podge a mix of other-worldly beings as anyone can imagine. But a sorcerer, a scientist, a sixteen-year-old demon, and the others all have one thing in common: a hunger for justice—no matter what the cost. The team investigate why people are being turned into stone.