Books like Smoke & whispers by Mick Herron

Cayce Pollard, a logo‑conscious consultant in London, becomes embroiled in a global hunt for a mysterious filmmaker dubbed the "garage Kubrick" after discovering fragmented footage online.

Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh leads the high‑tech Rule 34 Squad, unearthing the sinister ties between three ex‑convict spammers and their murders.

Former Charleston PD detective Jay Burgess is found dead, and newswoman Britt Shelley has no memory of the night. Firefighter Raley Gannon, wrongly blamed for a 2003 station fire, must team up with Shelley to uncover the truth and survive those who will kill for their secrets.

In the gloomy Slough House of British intelligence, disgraced officer River Cartwright faces a kidnapping that could bring him redemption—if he can outsmart the kidnappers and the journalist who’s entangled in their sinister plans.

Sid Halley, a private investigator with a bionic hand, probes corruption in the racing world.

Jockey Phillip Nore investigates the murder of a famed racetrack photographer, uncovering betrayal, blackmail and bribery, only to find his own life at stake.

Sid Halley, a former champion jockey now freelance investigator, discovers a concealed crime committed by a close friend he has long admired. When the trial is set, Halley is called as a witness, thrusting him into a tense, investigative ordeal.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.

In Spook Street, a retired MI5 spy grapples with memory loss while the agents of Slough House race to stop a bomb that killed forty civilians in a shopping centre.

Agents from MI5 go to London's Slough House to try to redeem themselves after a betrayal.

An anthology tracing a century of detective fiction, featuring classic and lesser‑known works from Poe, Doyle, Twain, and more, for readers and scholars alike.

Eva Jackson is Rosemary's cousin and she has moved back to her childhood home in Taviscombe after the untimely death of her beloved husband Alan. As is the way of the village, Eva has been pounced upon by the local charities, and it is during a coffee morning that she mentions to Sheila Malory that she fears Alan might have died an unnatural death ... Sheila is intrigued and sets out to find out more. But when Eva's body is discovered after a supposed insulin overdose, Sheila wonders if the killer might still be at large in the charming Devon countryside ...

Former MI5 operative Tom Bettany abandons his quiet life to investigate the mysterious death of his estranged son, confronting allies and enemies alike in a tense London thriller.

"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.

Jude’s life pivots when her new partner, Piers Targett, introduces her to the thrilling world of Real Tennis. After a suspect death on the court, she must navigate a police investigation while uncovering the sport’s hidden secrets.

Actress Diana Poole, racing against time and budget, returns to Hollywood to save her career after her mother’s murder, only to discover the lead actress’s corpse and a tangled web of industry secrets that threaten her life.

Jude stumbles into a local bookmakers shop and discovers the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski, prompting her and her friend Carole to investigate the crime together.

Zoe Boehm, a women‑private‑investigator, is hired to locate the absent lover of a train‑victim, uncovering a double‑layered criminal world that may turn her own life into a target.

In Baltimore, seasoned private investigator Tess Monaghan is hired to locate a famous Orthodox Jewish man's missing wife and children, uncovering a web of betrayal, vengeance, and murder.

MI5’s First Desk officer Claude Whelan grapples with constant threats to a beleaguered prime minister while the country faces a spate of terror attacks, all while his own deputy watches his every move.

One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Newbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant sculptress Gillian Roberts. However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the art department, when the lift breaks down ans a corpse is discovered at the bottom of the shaft. Dorothy and Alan become involved in the ensuing investigation, putting their local knowledge and sleuthing skills to good use once again. But when another member of the art faculty goes missing and someone receives threatening phone calls, it seems the killer still has something to hide and may very well strike again.

When Emily Kane finds her family missing at her sister’s house in Las Vegas, she turns to former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to uncover a decades‑old cover‑up and a trail of bodies.