Books like After Life by Rhian Ellis

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Sookie Stackhouse travels to Mississippi’s Club Dead, a vampire‑run haunt, to find her distant boyfriend Bill. When she discovers his betrayal, she must decide whether to rescue him or deliver death.

A suspenseful mystery featuring a female sleuth who investigates missing persons amid supernatural clues and the backdrop of a wedding.

The second book in V. C. Andrews’ intimate 2‑part series, it advances the family drama introduced in Secrets in the Attic with suspenseful revelations and complex mother‑daughter bonds.

"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.

Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life in this story of a doctor who forsakes medicine to recite poetry in the streets, the women in his life, and the ghost who occasionally accompanies him.

Fourteen‑year‑old Emmy faces the first anniversary of her best friend Kim’s death, trying to honor a promise to reach the spirit of her friend while discovering new friendships and insights that help her grow.

Consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton investigates a mutilated murder in remote Shetland and uncovers an ancient legend that turns her life into a lethal game.

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.

Bill Petit, a Connecticut man whose entire family was murdered in a home invasion, chronicles his astonishing recovery from that devastating trauma.