Books like Black Amber by Phyllis A. Whitney

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

In "The Postman Always Rings Twice," a drifter falls for a married woman, creating a deadly love triangle that spirals into murder, betrayal, and the inevitable tragedy of a postman's cruel warning.

After Florentyna Kane becomes America’s first woman president, a shadowy conspiracy threatens her life; FBI Agent Mark Andrews races to uncover the plot before the next assassination attempt.

Covert agents Jon Smith and Randi Russell uncover a bioterror threat that could annihilate humanity.

When mystery novelist Grace McCabe returns to Washington, D.C., to visit her estranged sister, she discovers her sister's hidden life as a phone‑sex operator. After Kathleen is strangled, Grace turns detective and sets a deadly trap for the killer.

Photojournalist Jordan Glass investigates a series of disturbing paintings called "The Sleeping Women," uncovering a link to her missing twin sister and confronting an elusive, obsessed artist.

An English tourist and a local investigate mysterious deaths during a gypsy pilgrimage to a holy shrine in Provence, uncovering a tangled web of identity, wealth, and danger.

After a shocking accident, a celebrated children's author learns her reality is unraveling as ghostly ties force her to confront loss, psychological dread, and a haunting narrative that mirrors her own tragic story.

A bus driver and a summer mine worker navigate unexpected career changes, youthful longing, and hidden motives in this contemporary tale of age, ambition, and the mineral-rich world of an amethyst mine.

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A romance that weaves two couples’ lives across a twenty‑five‑year divide, blending love with scientific inquiry.

A British agent hunted by a ruthless escape syndicate and a double agent in Malta must use wit to survive.

Semantha Heavenstone returns to her Kentucky family estate after graduation, where haunting memories of her deceased sister Cassie and a looming stepmother threaten her future career and newfound love with Ethan Hunter.

After decades living as her dead twin, Celeste must confront her hidden past and protect her daughter when her controlling mother remarries, unleashing new threats that demand her survival.

Travis McGee, the sharp‑witted detective, uncovers a crime while fishing with his friend Meyer; a bound woman’s body is tossed over a bridge, setting off a mystery that reveals darker currents beneath the surface.

American art expert Colin Grant is sent to Vienna to buy a Ruysdael painting for a Texas millionaire, but the transaction spirals into a Cold‑War conspiracy that could spark international terrorism.

Set in 1951 Cornwall, the story follows Colonel Julyan and young scholar Terence Gray as they investigate the mysterious death of Rebecca, the first wife of Maxim de Winter, uncovering secrets that still haunt the de Winter family estate, Manderley.

Process server Jack Ryan is hired to locate the elusive "Unknown Man #89"—but the search pulls a lethal triangle of greed, vengeance and danger into downtown Detroit.

Romano Grey, a gypsy antique expert, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery when a friend dies in an accident and Grey is accused of killing a girl whose body is sliced into pieces.

Seventeen‑year‑old Amber St. Clare rises from abandoned, penniless streets of 17th‑century London to become the favored mistress of King Charles II, navigating the Restoration court, plague, and the Great Fire while staying true to a forbidden love.

After a tragic sea loss, widowed Melanie Morganfield Young seeks solace on the ship that once carried her husband, only to find love and healing with Captain Worth Randolph, whose gentle strength and passionate glances help her let go of the past.

Thunder Heights To Camilla King, her trip up the Hudson to the huge Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was in a way a return to the home that had never been hers. From there her grandfather, Orrin Judd, the financier, ran his vast empire. When Camilla had been a child her mother had returned there for a visit and mysteriously died. From that point on, for reasons she had never understood, Camilla's father had cut himself off completely from the Judd family. And later Camilla, now an orphan and quite alone, had been making her way as a governess in New York City. The summons from the old man had come as a complete surprise. Yet Camilla obeyed it willingly, half out of curiosity, half in the hope of discovering a home and family of her own. She found a sick old man anxious to make his peace with her before he died. She found two extraordinary aunts--imperious Aunt Hortense, dressed in bygone fashions, and fey, ghostlike Aunt Letty, haunted by some strange guilt or sorrow. She found also Hortense's adopted son, Booth, a strange, sardonic young man who seemed content to idle away his considerable talents as a painter, and Ross Granger, who had been brought there as an aide to her grandfather and who treated her with the most rigid formality. Over the enormous house hung an atmosphere of gloom, impending danger, and strange crosscurrents. And out of these elements Phyllis Whitney has fashioned an extraordinarily holding story. Old Orrin Judd's amazing will, young Booth's unfinished portrait of Camilla's mother, the house itself, which took on a character of its own, and one near-accident after another, seemingly aimed at driving Camilla away, all play their parts. The Window on the Square THE SCENE IS NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1870's. A letter summons young Megan Kincaid to the house on Washington Square. In a startling interview the master of the house, Brandon Reid, informs her that he wishes her to devote herself to moody, unbalanced Jeremy, Mrs. Reid's son by her previous husband, Brandon's younger brother Dwight. Dwight Reid's brilliant career as New York District Attorney had been ended by a shocking and tragic accident with a gun--or so the newspapers had claimed--at the hands of this same guilt-ridden child, then aged seven. Against her better judgment, Megan accepts the challenge. From the beginning Megan feels uneasy in the house; she senses the presence of lurking evil, of mysterious emotional undercurrents, of relationships that are not what they appear to be. She does not know whom to trust--the haughty yet strangely sad beauty, Leslie Reid, or the somber, fascinating master of the house, whose warm voice belies his cold, grave manner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn toward him, and their growing mutual attraction is duly noted by interested members of the household. When Megan realizes fully the extent of her own feelings, she knows she cannot honorably remain in the Reid home. Yet she also knows that if she goes, Jeremy will be left alone in world, irretrievably lost.