Books like Midnight assassin by Patricia L. Bryan

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

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.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

An eleven-year-old boy’s corpse is found in a park, and all evidence points to Flint City’s beloved coach, Terry Maitland. A detective’s quick arrest leads to a tense investigation where DNA, alibis, and hidden truths collide.

Unravel the chilling true story of Austin’s 1884–85 serial killings, the Midnight Assassin, who terrorized Texans with axes, knives and steel rods, and the decade‑long reveal of the city’s darkest scandal.

The era leading up to the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 was defined by enormous expansion in American industry and muscle-flexing abroad as well as the potent rise of labor unrest and revolutionary ideas such as anarchy. The growth of railroads, steel output, consumer goods, patents and sheer American ingenuity enriched the captains of industry, while the laborers, assembly-line workers, coal miners and armies of poor immigrants performed mind-numbing tasks for quarters and dimes per day. «Wall Street Journal» correspondent Miller harnesses several narratives successively. He moves between the coffer-rich Republican election of the self-made man and Civil War hero McKinley against the populist William Jennings Bryan, to the meeting between the painfully shy working-class loner in Cleveland, Leon Czolgosz, and the charismatic anarchist speaker Emma Goldman. Fired up by Goldman’s words on social revolution and liberty—which in turn had emerged from a movement that Miller neatly traces from the work of Edmund Burke, William Godwin and the Transcendentalists—Czolgosz steeled himself for the “propaganda of the deed”—e.g., the kind of deadly terrorism that was rocking European capitals in the 1890s. Meanwhile, McKinley was faced with international crises that he would manipulate effectively for American imperialist gain, such as the annexation of Hawaii, defeat of Spain for the protectorate of Cuba and the Philippines, takeover of Guam and Puerto Rico and an attempted Open Door policy toward China (thwarted by the Boxer Rebellion). This is a wildly complex and significant period in American history, and Miller does a solid job of attending to the many boiling pots on the stove. [Kirkus Reviews][1] [1]: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-miller/president-and-assassin/

A factual account of Harvey Glatman, an American serial killer convicted in 1958 for murders that involved rape, torture, and the use of rope.

Detective Superintendent William Monk investigates a tragic bridge incident in Victorian London, uncovering intertwined murders, a flawed sewer scheme, and underground intrigue that risk the city’s safety.

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

Private detective Isaac Bell hunts a lethal assassin targeting rivals of Standard Oil, racing across the US and the Caspian region to protect a crucial government contract.

A true‑crime account of a 1994 New York murder involving a 13‑year‑old and her 15‑year‑old lover, detailing the crime, trial, and aftermath.

A former Chicago hospital volunteer turned Ruthless serial killer, John Gacy hid his crimes beneath clown makeup, terrorizing teens until a missing boy sparked an exhaustive hunt by prosecutor Terry Sullivan, who then documents the grim discoveries.

Honors college student finds her glamorous life shattered when she is thrust into a dark world of sex work, money, and murder.

A true‑crime biography of Judias Buenoano, a Florida entrepreneur whose rise from poverty amid a series of mysterious deaths in Pensacola raises questions about ambition, substance abuse and murder.

A true‑crime examination of the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey, the famous Colorado beauty contest participant, exploring the investigation, media frenzy, and legal battles that followed.

A true crime investigation following the murder of nineteen‑year‑old Mark Fisher, a college football star from New York City.