Books like Dangerous games by Michael Prescott

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

Blaze is Stephen King's early novel, originally written before Carrie and published in 2007 under his pseudonym Richard Bachman after a rewrite that cut much sentimentality.

Two disgraced Secret Service agents race against time to uncover the link behind a string of assassinations and kidnappings, exposing political corruption that threatens the United States’ presidents and presidential candidates.

A police detective in New York City must save the world from a mastermind terrorist.

Lacy Stoltz, a Florida Board on Judicial Conduct investigator, uncovers a sweeping corruption scheme involving a judge, a casino, and the Coast Mafia, forcing her into a deadly battle for justice.

Former CIA operative Jack Morgan runs the globe‑wide Private investigation firm, tackling an NFL‑gambling scandal, the murders of 18 schoolgirls and the brutal killing of a friend’s wife—pushing him to balance vengeance, justice and workplace intrigue.

An intriguing tale of a woman who discovers her past while solving the mysteries of a small, isolated town and finding herself entangled in a web of dark secrets and warnings.

A frantic hunt in London as former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter leads Private London to stop a killer abducting young women, while his past connections threaten to surface.

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys team up at the International Championship Games, where a mysterious Black Knight threatens athletes and investigators alike.

"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.

In the 1960s, half‑brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger, raised in state institutions after their mother’s murder, are seized as hostages by a death‑row killer and forced on a violent journey from California to Texas.

In 19th‑century Great Britain, Nick Barrington rescues far‑seated Melissa from auction and marries her for thirty‑thousand guineas, but a villain threatens their newfound life, forcing them to gamble everything for love.

Amateur jockey Roland Britten wakes to find his hands bound and a generator humming. Caught in a mysterious kidnapping tied to the Cheltenham Gold Cup, he must unravel a fraud scheme while racing against time.

Ben Brice, a Vietnam veteran living alone in New Mexico, must race against time to rescue his 10‑year‑old daughter Gracie after she is kidnapped, with his estranged son John and the FBI joining the frantic search.