Books like Cold in earth by Melissa Jones

A psychological thriller that follows Martie Rhodes as she and her husband Dusty confront a series of mind‑bending events involving a draconian psychologist, drug‑rehabilitated brother, and the terror of self‑fear.

After returning home to a new marriage and living with her brother, a woman develops an obsessive fascination with the handsome school principal, only to discover a deadly crush — and that someone else is watching her.

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.

When a daughter disappears while on a morning run, a family’s world unravels as each member grapples with loss, blame, and the hard‑to‑answer questions of what drives them to keep searching for her.

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.

Karin Slaughter’s Faithless follows medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver as they investigate a buried‑alive murder in Georgia, uncovering family secrets, police corruption and a killer more dangerous than imagined.

When a boy disappears, FBI consultant Timothy Blake is called in to negotiate a ransom, but the case quickly turns into a hunt for a cunning kidnapper who may have a personal connection to Blake’s secret past.

A young Cornelius takes his black father’s silent‑film job in New York, later becomes Professor John Woman and spreads his father's wisdom in a southwestern university, while hidden forces seek to shape his story.

Six archaeologists seek Viking traces in Greenland’s Arctic summer, only to be cut off by a home‑front epidemic and a harsh winter. Their desperate final letters, written in first‑person, trace survival, love, and grief in the isolated ice.

During a Shetland winter flood, Jimmy Perez discovers a body and becomes obsessed with uncovering the victim’s identity and death.

During World War I, Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson‑Svartman is dispatched to gather covert depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago, where he becomes captivated by a wild young widow, contrasting his wife’s reserved nature.

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

After discovering his wife murdered and toddler alone, art history professor George Clare faces relentless police suspicion while dark community secrets unfold across decades.

Clara Lawson’s world collapses when armed men invade her home, separating her from her family and forcing her to confront a sinister past that may redefine everything she knows.

**A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods.** A whirlwind romance. When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family—she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family’s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives. Stay away from Connor Dalton. Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can’t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood. I’ve been here before. Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything.