Books like You are dead by Peter James

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

The 23rd novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross mystery series follows the seasoned detective through a new homicide investigation in a glamorous North Carolina setting.

Alex Cross is charged with murdering followers of his nemesis, thrust into a legal battle that threatens his career and freedom while he, with former partner John Sampson, investigates a series of missing young girls linked to a dangerous internet cult.

Virgil Flowers, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, investigates a fatal kayaking murder at a women‑only resort, uncovering a tangled web of jealousy, blackmail, and secrets that could make him the next target.

In Salem, Massachusetts, a series of eerie murders and missing women draws a skeptical cop and an occult expert together as they hunt the legendary Harvest Man before he claims another victim.

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.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn investigates a decapitated dancer during a village sword dance, questioning whether the death was murder or a supernatural act in a quirky English rural community.

Roderick Alleyn faces an assassination attempt at London's Ng'ombwana embassy, navigating rival police forces, a tribal court, and a clever black cat to solve the murder.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn must discover which mysterious passenger aboard the Zodiac cruise is the serial killer known as Jampot before the five days of the voyage end, with the stakes reaching his own wife.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn investigates the murder of model Sonia Gluck in an artist colony, where the suspect is the fiesty painter Agatha Troy.

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.

Tony Hill and his partner Carol investigate a serial killer targeting single women at weddings in northern England, confronting a chilling moral dilemma as they chase a killer who lures victims to remote, burned‑out cars.

Superintendent Roderick Alleyn returns in Ngaio Marsh’s 24th detective novel, where a mysterious patron’s gift of a ruined theatre and a Shakespearean glove sparks a play, a murder and a crafty theft.

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.

A disgraced university lecturer is murdered near his home, prompting Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to probe a web of political activism, academic scandal, and police corruption on the Essex campus.

A parent's worst nightmare is Grace's deadliest case...Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it' at the stadium where his nightmare begins.Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps into a client. He takes his eye of Mungo for a few moments, and in that time, the boy is gone. Then he gets the terrifying message that someone has his child, and to get him back alive, Kipp will have to pay. Defying instruction not to contact the police, Kipp reluctantly does just that, and Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is brought into investigate. At first it seems a straightforward case of kidnap. But rapidly Grace finds himself entering a dark, criminal underbelly of the city, where the rules are different and nothing is what it seems...