Books like The front by Patricia Cornwell

Defense attorney Mickey Haller faces his most dangerous case yet when he must defend studio executive Walter Elliott after the murder of Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent, while detective Harry Bosch enters the fray to find Vincent’s killer.

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

Alex Cross, a police detective, is called back to Washington, DC, to solve the gruesome murders of criminals and escape artists.

In Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner Thomas Moore race to stop a serial killer who targets lone women with surgical precision, while unveiling a chilling link to a wounded medic with a deadly past.

Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the mysterious scuba‑diving death of a reporter in Norfolk, Virginia, uncovering a conspiratorial plot by a fascist militia to seize an atomic power plant.

Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a new serial killer linked to the infamous Warren Hoyt as wealthy men are terrorized in Boston’s summer heat.

In Minneapolis, two elderly women are found murdered in an affluent neighborhood, prompting Lucas Davenport to investigate whether the seemingly random crime hides a deeper motive.

Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD cop Milo Sturgis team up to chase a serial killer whose twisted motives and clever tactics keep the police and forensic psychologists on their toes.

In "A Taste for Death", Scotland Yard commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates a double murder at St. Matthew's Church, where an upper‑crust minister is slain beside a derelict, unraveling motives tied to a diary, a violet‑eyed widow and a web of deceit.

When a 26‑year‑old bicyclist dies under strange circumstances, forensic chief Kay Scarpetta suspects foul play and is stalked by a cyberbully sending cryptic poems. The case unfolds against a backdrop of forensic science, media scrutiny, and personal stakes.

Security chief Lucas Davenport finds himself hunted by a vengeful ex-thief and a powerful robbery crew during the Republican convention in Minneapolis.

Seattle detective J. P. Beaumont tackles the mysterious murder of an ex‑convict, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches high into law enforcement and threatens his own life.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch reopens an unsolved murder of a production assistant—investigating a crime that may be linked to terrorism and stumbling into old rivalries and personal ghosts along the way.

When a commuter plane crashes into a Los Angeles apartment building, L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker must uncover a hidden mystery amid terror, missing passengers, and a decades‑old murder that threatens his family and his sense of justice.

Lucas Davenport races against time to protect a witness and prevent a deadly crime in this fast‑paced Minnesota thriller.

Danielle “Tanya” Bigelow, a former child with obsessive‑compulsive disorder, now seeks help from psychologist Alex Delaware after her aunt confesses to murder. The case pulls Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis through Los Angeles’ darkest corners in search of a phantom victim.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, working freelance in Florida, investigates a cold case that travels from sunny Southern shores to icy Boston, confronting a cunning killer whose psyche tests her limits.

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, Scarpetta realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out ...

In Massachusetts town Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone tackles a scandal involving the junior high principal and a dangerous voyeur known as the Night Hawk, exposing the community's hidden secrets.

A fast‑paced police procedural set in Seattle, following detectives Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews as they tackle a gripping mystery that tests their investigative skills and psychological insight.

A Baltimore homicide detective must unearth the truth behind a child's disappearance that echoes a decades‑old case involving two young girls and an abandoned infant, revealing that no one—including the children—is innocent.

Patricia Cornwell’s standalone novel follows investigator Winston Garano as he unravels a twenty‑year‑old murder case that forces him to confront buried truths across Massachusetts and Tennessee.

In Richmond, Virginia, Police Chief Judy Hammer tackles corruption, scandal, and murder while reforming the department.

In "Rage," psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis revisit a chilling 8‑year‑old kidnapping case to confront a haunting killer who may exact brutal revenge.

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.