Books like Modern classics of suspense by Reader's Digest

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

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

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.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

Jason Bourne, a deep‑cover operative with no memory, is rescued after a beachwreck and discovers a bank account embedded in his body that leads him to Switzerland and the truth about his past.

A woman detective in Edinburgh searches for answers to her niece's heart transplant mystery.

Judge Knott's murder mystery in Beaufort, North Carolina, with a past lover as the suspect.

Two young detectives in Switzerland chase a dog bank robber who is actually a Professor Sardine, a clever sleuth in the style of Professor Challenger.

Alex and Ray's Vegas vacation turns into a mystery adventure with supernatural elements, featuring a young detective and a friendly Vegas character named Mack.

"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.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

A diary‑based mystery set on a college campus, where a student detective unravels intrigue among Greek letter societies, blending investigation, adventure, and suspense in a fresh juvenile fiction backdrop.