Books like The Outsider by Melinda Metz

Detective Erika Foster follows a chilling trail from a frozen body in a South London park to the strangulated remains of three prostitutes, uncovering a sinister network beneath the city’s glittering surface.

Max is dying. Can Liz save him with her powers?

A teenage romance unfolds when Michael, an extraterrestrial visitor, and Marie, a high‑school student in New Mexico, fall in love, risking all as their worlds collide.

When an encounter at Heathrow turns into a murderous plan, the tangled lives of Ted Severson, his wife Miranda, and a mysterious stranger collide across continents, forcing each to decide whether to pursue their own violent course or to protect their futures.

Alison Smith returns to Dublin after ten years away when a new murder in the Grand Canal forces her to confront the past she left behind—an investigation that could expose the darkest truth about the notorious Canal Killer, Will Hurley.

"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.

Michael is trapped in a secret compound and must escape before he betrays the residents of Roswell High, a town in imaginary New Mexico. Can his friends pull him free in this high‑stakes adventure?

Michael phenomenally recalls his escape from an underground compound, struggling with flashbacks that only a mysterious girl named Cameron seems to understand.

A high‑school drama set at the fictional Roswell High, following Max, whose strange behavior sparks questions about his identity and the possible reach of extraterrestrial influence.