Books like Bad things by Michael Marshall

First‑person memoir of Neo‑classical Manhattan investment banker Patrick Bateman, whose glossy façade masks a brutal, psychopathic descent into violence.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

During a Mexican vacation, two couples lose a friend and delve into a jungle ruin, only to confront a terrifying, ancient presence.

Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

In an apocalyptic near‑future, a mother and her two small children navigate a river blindfolded to avoid a terrifying entity, while the story features profanity and graphic violence.

When a Facebook friend request from a deceased high‑school girl surfaces, a teenage girl must confront buried secrets, lost friendships, and a dangerous truth she never anticipated.

A glamorous model vanishes during a Hawaii swimsuit shoot, prompting her parents and former cop turned reporter Ben Hawkins to race against time and corrupt police to uncover a killer who blurs beauty and murder in paradise.

Detective Lieutenant Jonathan Stride hunts a serial disappearances in Minnesota, where teenage girls vanish without a trace, forcing him to confront his darkest fears.

A man obsessed with finding his sister’s killer is pulled into the woods behind his mother’s house, where only her sneaker remains as a clue, transforming a search into a psychological battle against his own unraveling mind.

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.

"Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship--in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. She doesn't like it, but she has one question: What happened to the little boy of the family, her long-lost uncle? Throughout the course of a month-long tempest that begins to wash the peninsula out from beneath them, Peregrine searches modern-day San Francisco and its surroundings--and, through his continued writing, southern China and the Pacific immigration experience of a century ago--for the missing boy. The clues uncovered lead Peregrine to question not only the nature of his writing, but also his knowledge of his own past and his understanding of his identity"--

A tense thriller where a guilt‑ridden fugitive’s journey into Washington State sparks a deadly chain, a murdered Los Angeles woman’s death probes a serial killer, and ex‑CIA agent Ward Hopkins hunts past betrayals in a web of conspiracy.