Books like Ritual by Mo Hayder

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 tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

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.

Detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates a brutal murder at a psychiatric clinic, confronting a cunning killer who challenges his reputation for failure-free cases.

When the first snow falls in Oslo, a missing‑mothers investigation leads Inspector Harry Hole into a deadly serial‑killer game that threatens to unhinge him.

Harlan Coben’s thriller follows a man’s desperate search for his missing brother, spiraling into a painful hunt for a killer and the truth behind betrayal and family secrets.

When a famed but now forgotten woman vanishes, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache delves into a mysterious disappearance that only a brilliant poet recognizes, unearthing secrets in Quebec’s sleepy village of Three Pines.

A Baltimore cop investigates a mysterious cold case of two missing sisters from a shopping mall that vanished thirty years ago, baffling for its lack of clues and the claim of a survivor with no evidence.

Detective Zach Jordan and partner Kylie MacDonald of the elite NYPD Red task force uncover a chilling conspiracy while investigating a billionaire’s missing son, threatening New York’s powerful elite.

Detective Jack Caffery races against a ruthless car‑jacker who kidnaps children in the West Country, uncovering a chilling pattern before more victims fall prey.

Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates a mysterious murder in the Yorkshire Dales, while Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, once a lover, comes to help and uncover the darker aspects of his family's past.

Police detective Jack Caffery, haunted by a past he can’t escape, probes the brutal abduction of a husband and wife on a quiet London street, only to discover a child disappearance that brings his own demons to the surface.

Shrouded in the same brand of mystery and contradiction that forms its tangled plot, "Ritual", the 1967 debut by David Pinner is commonly recognised by cult cinema fanatics as the original seed that grew into the towering movie enigma "The Wicker Man". Set against an enclosed rural Cornish landscape, Ritual follows the trail of English police officer, David Hanlin, who is requested to investigate the murder of a local child. During his short stay, he is slowly subjected to a spectacle of psychological trickery, sexual seduction and ancient religious practices. As he delves deeper into the village’s mysterious way of life he finds himself becoming embroiled and seduced into their bizarre rituals, and starts to feel almost hypnotised by the community. But when another child is murdered he knows he needs to break the spell and find the killer. Pinner's poetic and hallucinatory sequences were transformed into Robin Hardy's 1973 film, "The Wicker Man", which has enthralled and inspired generations of British movie patrons and folk-pop enthusiasts throughout the world.

Senior police officer Richard Jury investigates a long‑forgotten murder of Tess, a wife whose death was ruled an accidental fall, possibly linked to a fatal incident at a children’s party and a recent tower collapse near his bars.