Books like The Family by Martina Cole

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

Michael Corleone returns from a three‑year exile in Sicily to re‑enter America alongside young bandit Salvatore Giuliano, whose reckless acts have upset the Sicilian Mafia.

Bob Lee Swagger, a Vietnam veteran, returns to Idaho for a quiet ranch life but finds that the memories and unresolved threats from his war days still haunt him.

Deephaven's Davenport investigates a gruesome murder, discovering a family tragedy that seems impossible and bringing him into the darkness of his darkest nightmare.

The Bailey brothers, Peter and Daniel, dominate London’s East End from the late 1970s, ruling a ruthless gang that shrouds its family in violence and loyalty. When their sons join the business, the stakes rise—until a tragedy forces Tania to choose a perilous path to survive.

The Basque landscape is a delightfully sinister setting. Francis, a sixty-year-old author, has not written a word in the twelve years since his first wife and eldest daughter died in a tragic accident. Now his surviving daughter, Alice, a famous actress, has vanished, leaving her husband and twin daughters clueless as to her whereabouts. Francis's second marriage of ten years, to Judith, is also falling apart, and his distress is compounded by his anxiety over Alice's disappearance. He finds comfort in the company of an old friend, Anne-Marguerite, along with her son, Jérémie, a laconic criminal attempting to remake himself in the outside world. But when Francis employs them to uncover evidence of his second wife's affair and to help find his daughter, things go from bad to worse. A mesmerizing literary thriller, Unforgivable is full of setbacks and revelations--an unsettling and starkly elegant meditation on family bonds, betrayals, and reconciliation.

A faith‑driven story of family and love set in historic Kansas.

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

Danny Cadogan rises from a broken family to the top of London’s crime world as a feared "Face," balancing ruthless ambition with a domineering home life, while secrets threaten to collapse his empire.

A Vatican priest discovers a priceless manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy, triggering a dangerous chain of thefts that culminates in a New York mob boss and a writer who steals it himself.

After student riots in Seoul prompt a U.S. withdrawal from South Korea, North Korea launches a surprise attack across the DMZ. With Russia backing the North and China staying neutral, the United States and South Korean forces must repel the invasion in a brutal, all‑arms conflict.

After her twin’s death, Abi seeks a fresh start in Bath but is haunted by Lucy’s memory. When she meets Bea, who looks like Lucy, and her brother Ben, love and secrets intertwine, forcing Abi to confront hidden truths about her new family and herself.

Betrayal follows Aiden O'Hara, head of a powerful family, and Jade Dixon, his trusted ally, as they navigate loyalty, danger, and the thin line between protection and betrayal.

A first‑time thriller that spins a tense love triangle, in which a mother’s obsessive bid to keep her son with her threatens the life of the woman he loves.