Books like Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Balram Halwai rises from servant to entrepreneur, revealing the brutal path of ambition and survival in modern India.

A thrilling novel about a great white shark that preys on a small resort town.

Former CIA agents turned detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell investigate a murder inside a secretive lab near a CIA training camp, uncovering a conspiracy that could shatter national security.

Blaze is Stephen King's early novel, originally written before Carrie and published in 2007 under his pseudonym Richard Bachman after a rewrite that cut much sentimentality.

In the isolated mining town of Hyde River, mysterious disappearances trigger a town‑wide fear as a malevolent force seeks to devour both bodies and souls.

Spenser races to recover a stolen manuscript in Boston while a dead student leaves a single clue that upends the police inquiry.

A young bat must navigate a prehistoric world, using his night vision and predatory instincts to survive and prove his worth in a society that fears the different.

A mother's nightmare returns as she discovers her children are missing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and must confront the shadowy figure who murdered her first children.

The Toymaker

When art convicts Juan Cabrillo and his crew chase priceless paintings, they uncover a Japanese WWII drug that turns soldiers into ‘mega warriors,’ drawing them into a deadly game with a Filipino rebel leader.

A relentless assassin's hunt in the North, centering on a ruthless killer, a woman he loves, and a beloved mayor hired to kill him with extreme prejudice.

"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.

Consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton investigates a mutilated murder in remote Shetland and uncovers an ancient legend that turns her life into a lethal game.

A 1942 mystery novel in Erle Stanley Gardner's Cool & Lam series.

A quiet, unassuming English mother in the 1940s faces subtle domestic pressures that build to a gripping, unresolved climax.

Romano Grey, a gypsy antique expert, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery when a friend dies in an accident and Grey is accused of killing a girl whose body is sliced into pieces.

A mysterious ivory jackal gamepiece leads Lydia Harris on a journey of discovery in ancient Egypt and Rome.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.