Books like Night's Child by Maureen Jennings

Former golf retreat turned murder mystery: Henry Gamadge, renowned consultant on old books and crime, suspects a staged death at a cliffside when Amberley Crowden’s body is found, and must untangle the intrigue involving her cousin and a troupe of actors before the final curtain falls.

A journalist tracks a decades‑old disappearance at a haunted boarding school, uncovering a chilling truth that links past sins to present horror.

A medieval mystery tale set during a civil war, where nobles must use their deductive skills to solve a murder and save an innocent man's life.

In Victorian Toronto, midwife Dolly Merishaw is murdered, and a boy, found dead in her kitchen, complicates Detective William Murdoch’s investigation.

Emma Davis, a rising New York artist, returns to the reopened Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to uncover the truth behind her friends' disappearance, confronting hidden secrets and dangerous threats that may exact a deadly cost for closure.

"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.

After World War I, Gillian Maitland’s future is set with a noble werewolf, but her heart remains with Ross Kavanaugh—an American ex‑cop whose return to England—and a hidden son threatens to tear their world apart.

A historical detective mystery set in New York, following the fictional detective Pieter Tonneman as he unravels crimes in 19th‑century urban life.

In a 1970s Ontario suburb, the murder of Chisako and her lover forces residents to confront the lingering shadows of WWII internment, revealing how past injustices shape present identities.

Former military intelligence officer Noah Drake exiled himself to a small island off the coast of Georgia after the side effects of an untested drug destroyed his body's tolerance to light. But because of his sacrifice, he brought down a dangerous traitor. Now, five years later, Noah's adversary is back to settle the score. The man moved as stealthily as a shadow, but Specialist Maggie "Blue" Callahan had her assignment -- to protect Noah at all costs. And no matter how much Noah protested, she would carry it out. Except that was becoming increasingly difficult with the seductive siren call of the night. Would its inexorable rhythm sentence them both to the all-consuming darkness?

Sandro Cavalli, famed for delivering criminals to justice, faces a new, deadly conspiracy in the city's shadows. Enlisting the enigmatic Laura Bandello, he battles danger, honor, and his growing attraction to a woman with a potential dark secret.

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.