Books like Dead if you don't by Peter James

A pioneering English detective story in which a priceless diamond, once stolen from a Hindu idol and presented to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, disappears again, sparking intrigue and danger.

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops' outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing destruction. "Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of Katie Bishop, a member of Brighton's social elite. Her husband Brian appears to be in the clear - he was in another town at the time, sound asleep. But Grace begins to suspect the presence of a doppelganger: is someone else - almost identical to Bishop - involved in the crime? Grace's diligent exhuming of murky secrets soon demonstrates that the Bishops' outwardly settled lives had darker corners. And as Grace gets close to the truth, he finds - paradoxically - that it's his own beleaguered private life which is on the line."--Back cover.

When a new road threatens the ancient woods of Framhust, environmentalists mobilize and an extremist group kidnaps five people—including Inspector Wexford’s wife—in a race against time to stop the destruction.

An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect . . . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind . . . and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is. Love You Dead is the gripping twelfth book in Peter James' Roy Grace series.

A man finds himself buried alive, and Detective Superintendent Grace must uncover the truth.

When a young couple joins an American fertility clinic, their hopeful day turns into a revelation that could signal the end of humanity’s evolutionary dominance. The novel blends personal stakes with a suspenseful, thriller‑like exploration of assisted reproductive technology and the fate of mankind.

Number 35 The Hill, a disturbing crime story involving a kidnapping and investigation by police detectives.

When teenage singer Leah Wakefield vanishes, Detective Wesley Peterson suspects the same kidnapper who took little Marcus Fallbrook in 1976. As Marcus inexplicably returns from the dead and an arctic excavation uncovers new clues, the mystery deepens.

When a child disappears at an extravagant house party, the world is stunned. Years later, the family gathers for a funeral that turns into a tense showdown—only one global mystery will remain unsolved.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates a series of disappearances and recent murders that link a vanished fiancée in Brighton to a decades‑old killer, uncovering a chilling serial mystery.