Books like The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

When a fatal crime shatters his family, former detective Amos Decker must use his impossible photographic memory to uncover the truth behind the murders that defied him, while facing the painful past he cannot escape.

A Midwestern prosecutor’s tidy career turns chaotic when a staff murder lands the case—and the suspect—in his own office, pushing him to clear his name as he uncovers hidden motives.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller faces his most dangerous case yet when he must defend studio executive Walter Elliott after the murder of Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent, while detective Harry Bosch enters the fray to find Vincent’s killer.

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

Lee Child’s Jack Reacher follows a mysterious West Point ring in a small Wisconsin town, uncovering a criminal conspiracy that threatens to drag him into a battle of forces he can’t ignore.

In southeast Minnesota, a school board vote to allow a local reporter to be killed triggers a mystery, as Virgil Flowers investigates a dognapping ring that has expanded into medical labs and a murder.

Harry Bosch reconnects a 20‑year‑old murder of a young female photographer to a fresh crime, using ballistics to reveal a personal, hidden plot in the aftermath of the L.A. riots.

Detective Lindsay Boxer faces two intertwined murders in San Francisco, racing against time to solve a brutal shooting and a jewel heist while her personal life teeters.

Detective Michael Bennett returns to New York with his family after dismantling a crime lord’s empire. When a charred body appears in a ruined building that once hosted a strange party, Bennett dives into a hidden criminal underworld he never expected.

A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

Lindsay Boxer, a seasoned police detective in San Francisco, must unravel a tangled web of murder, espionage, and a missing husband while the city reels from a catastrophic plane crash.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch reopens an unsolved murder of a production assistant—investigating a crime that may be linked to terrorism and stumbling into old rivalries and personal ghosts along the way.

In Joe Pickett’s latest adventure, his daughter April goes missing and a girl’s body is found—poisoning the lives of a rodeo champion and the game‑warden world. Pickett must uncover the truth before danger turns deadly.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

A missing brother, a dying father, and a desperate marriage collide in Harlan Coben’s fast‑paced thriller, Live Wire, starring Myron Bolitar as he battles personal betrayals and dangerous secrets.

Harry Bosch confronts the prospect of retirement when he is placed on the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, earning a three‑year window to solve one last case before the city’s police Department enforces his exit.

Suspended detective Harry Bosch investigates a 1961 murder that turns out to be his own mother, uncovering a decades‑old conspiracy in Los Angeles.

When a childhood friend disappears without a trace, a former TV reporter haunted by PTSD must confront the past and uncover a cold case that could reveal a terror she never imagined.

NYPD Red 2 follows Task Force investigators Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald as they pursue a vigilante serial killer claiming justice for unpunished crimes—a hunt that exposes political secrets and threatens their careers.

Jack McEvoy, a Los Angeles Times journalist ousted by budget cuts, battles a serial killer when a 16‑year‑old confessor’s claim of murder proves false and may hide an innocent victim.

Harry Bosch’s past catches up with him in Los Angeles, where a cold case from 20 years ago resurfaces and threatens his ability to solve the present-day murder case.

A disgraced university lecturer is murdered near his home, prompting Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to probe a web of political activism, academic scandal, and police corruption on the Essex campus.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch returns home to tackle cold cases in the department’s Open‑Unsolved Unit, working alongside partner Kiz Rider to close long‑standing crimes.

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.