Books like The runner by Peter May

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

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.

A brutal shooting inside Grant County’s police station sparks a hostage crisis that forces medical examiner Sara Linton, new officer Lena Adams, and deputy Frank Wallace to uncover the shooter before Chief Jeffrey Tolliver succumbs to his wounds.

Karin Slaughter’s Faithless follows medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver as they investigate a buried‑alive murder in Georgia, uncovering family secrets, police corruption and a killer more dangerous than imagined.

When a Facebook friend request from a deceased high‑school girl surfaces, a teenage girl must confront buried secrets, lost friendships, and a dangerous truth she never anticipated.

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Lawyer Lady Victoria Wentworth faces a brutal murder that spirals into a high‑stakes art theft, while New York art expert Anna Petrescu battles intrigue in the Twin Towers as a Van Gogh masterpiece changes hands.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

A focused teenage runner learns to balance competition and cooperation when he coaches a teammate, discovering the value of relationships and teamwork beyond the track.

Udo Berger tiene veinticinco años y su pasión son los juegos de guerra. También tiene independencia económica y una novia a la que ama, Ingeborg. La pareja pasa unos días en el lugar de la Costa Brava donde él veraneaba con su familia. Udo hace instalar en su habitación una gran mesa donde piensa nuevas estrategias para el Tercer Reich, su juego. Y por la noche van a una discoteca y conocen a Charly y Hanna, otra pareja de alemanes. Cuando bajan a la playa, el imprevisible Charly les introduce en la comunidad del lugar, plena de turbios personajes como el Lobo o el Cordero, que tanto pueden ser trabajadores de verano como mafiosos; Frau Else, la guapa encargada del hotel, o el Quemado, un hombre desfigurado y del que nadie sabe nada, aunque insinúan que es extranjero, que fue torturado en su país... El Tercer Reich, un texto inédito escrito en el año 1989, es una espléndida novela de la primera etapa de Roberto Bolaño, el feliz hallazgo de un ejercicio narrativo donde el autor despliega algunos de sus grandes temas, como las extrañas formas del nazismo, o que la cultura –los juegos, o la literatura– es la realidad.

A gripping police procedural mystery centered around Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, as he investigates the Beijing Ripper and uncovers a web of lies and deceit.

A retired college professor takes it upon himself to rescue a teenage girl kidnapped and tormented by a sadistic pair whose brutal acts are livestreamed online, following a police investigation that stalls.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Ex‑Detective Inspector Fin McLeod, now a security officer on the Isle of Lewis, unravels a long‑hidden secret when a bog burst reveals a vanished light aircraft and its mysterious passenger.

David Raker, a skeptical missing‑persons investigator, reluctantly takes on the cold case of Alex Towne, whose body was found a year after his disappearance. As Raker digs into Alex’s hidden past, he uncovers secrets that men will kill to keep secret, forcing him to confront what truly lies beyond death.

Detective Tom Thorne, once a rising star, is on leave after a scandal and his father’s mysterious death. When three homeless men are found murdered with banknotes on their chests, he dives back into London's underbelly to uncover a link to a decade‑old crime that may cost him everything.

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.

The Fourth Sacrifice is a gripping mystery novel featuring a seasoned police detective and a brilliant forensic pathologist as they investigate a series of gruesome murders in a remote Chinese city.

A gripping Swedish‑Danish thriller where a missing justice minister and a murdered Danish TV star set off a race to solve a conspiracy that ties crime, missing persons and body‑part killings.

When Emily Kane finds her family missing at her sister’s house in Las Vegas, she turns to former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to uncover a decades‑old cover‑up and a trail of bodies.