Books like Homicide Special by Miles Corwin

John Wayne Cheever follows a strict rule‑set to keep his fascination with serial killers in check, but a body found behind a laundromat forces him to confront a threat beyond his own obsession.

A serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles leaves cryptic clues that only the elusive detective L can interpret. With FBI agent Naomi Misora on the case, the city’s death toll rises as they race to outwit the murderer’s twisted game.

James Ellroy’s gritty noir jazz in 1958 Los Angeles follows corrupt LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein as federal investigators turn the city’s underworld into a deadly prison of power and betrayal.

An inside look at Baltimore’s homicide unit, revealing how police investigate and confront the city’s relentless violence.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

Spring 1992, and the City of Angels was suddenly a modern hell. During five terrifying days, as the world watched in horror, the deadliest urban rioting of the twentieth century laid waste to South Central Los Angeles. But there's a hidden story behind the riots. Lou Cannon, who covered Los Angeles for The Washington Post before, during, and after the violence, has exhaustively interviewed the survivors and learned the definitive story of just what happened and why. Official Negligence takes us behind the scenes at City Hall and at police headquarters, inside jury rooms, onto the front lines of the violence in the streets, and into the hearts and minds of unknown heroes and tells, for the first time, a riveting tale of multiple injustices, mismanagements, and misjudgments. Official Negligence illuminates all the characters and events surrounding what went wrong in Los Angeles. In so doing, it lays bare the ethnic, racial, and economic fault lines that divide American society at the approach of the millennium.

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.