Books like One of us by Michael Marshall Smith

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

Psychologist Alex Delaware stalked by a sinister voice and a series of untimely deaths linked to a former child‑psychology clinic, forcing him to unravel a dark pattern before he becomes the next victim.

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.

Falling: Two FBI Agents Hunt the Vanishing of an Infant

After a seemingly trivial decision, a privileged young woman discovers her world is built on lies—forcing her to confront family secrets, hidden enemies, and a dangerous lover in this fast‑paced thriller.

Walter Mosley's science‑fiction thriller, *The Wave* follows a man who receives a prank call from the supposedly deceased father he never knew. The mysterious dialogue leads him to a graveyard visit that turns his life upside down.

After a plane crash that leaves only a painter and a child alive, the surviving pilot must navigate a treacherous coast while investigators uncover secrets that may haunt the elite aboard.

A CIA-style thriller in which a faulty memory‑alteration device steals the U.S. President’s memories—plotting around secret military plans and the race to recover them.

FBI special agent Pierce Quincy teams with ex‑cop Rainie Connor to chase a psychopathic killer who preys on the minds of his victims, forcing them to confront the darkest fears close to home.

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.

In Fairview, Connecticut, a young woman’s memory is erased after a violent assault, forcing her family to confront hidden secrets and a relentless search for justice in a seemingly perfect town.

"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.

Dr. Gideon Wolfe, a criminology professor in 2023 New York, is drawn into a conspiracy over a doctored video of President Emily Forrester’s 2018 assassination when a grieving widow entrusts him with a silver disc that may expose a hidden truth.

When an enigmatic telecom device opens a channel to the supernatural, a grieving former soldier must confront ghosts—both literal and literal—while battling his own unraveling mind.