Books like Exit Lines by Reginald Hill

James Ellroy’s hard‑boiled crime novel follows detectives as they unravel Los Angeles’s darkest mystery, the unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, blending gritty police work with atmospheric noir.

When mystery writer Maurice Seton is found dead in a drifting dinghy, Scotland Yard’s Adam Dalgliesh and his aunt must unravel a grisly puzzle before another murder strikes.

In the 21st‑century Manhattan of Walter Mosley’s new saga, former boxer turned private investigator Leonid McGill prowls a city steeped in secrets, balancing family, crime, and his own code of ethics.

During a Shetland winter flood, Jimmy Perez discovers a body and becomes obsessed with uncovering the victim’s identity and death.

"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.

At the Stranger House inn in Cumbria, an Australian math prodigy and a former priest‑turned historian collide while probing a family mystery and an ancestral disappearance, drawing them into a web of deception and violence in the sleepy village of Illthwaite.