Books like Richard Castle's A Calm Before Storm by Richard Castle

Joe Hill’s graphic novel follows the Calder family as they move into the enigmatic Keyhouse, where mysterious doors and a lurking, hate‑filled creature threaten to unleash supernatural terror.

Detective Tony Chu, a Cibopatchic psychic who feeds on murder victims to solve crimes, is assigned by the FDA’s Special Crimes Division to tackle the United States’ strangest food‑related mysteries.

The first graphic novel in the Parker series follows the lone hitman Parker as he crosses the country to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

Tony Chu, a cibopathic federal agent who receives psychic impressions through food, investigates a mysterious fruit that leads him to a remote island and a shadowy killer with a sinister appetite.

A gripping thriller in which a widow named Jean Taylor must confront the hidden crime that took her husband's life, uncovering secrets that challenge the very notion of truth within a marriage.

Parker rallies a crew of expert thieves to pull off the most daring heist yet: stealing an entire town.

Detective Jordan and his partner investigate a killer targeting the wealthy in New York City.

Derrick Storm investigates a series of deadly plane crashes that have claimed the lives of powerful politicians, business leaders, and religious figures, uncovering a maniacal extremist who weaponizes a ground‑mounted laser to bring down aircraft.

In Matt Fraction’s provocative graphic novel "Sex Criminals," two lovers discover that intense sexual climax can freeze time worldwide, while a shadowy group seeks to control them. They must unite to fight for freedom and their own identities.

"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.

In 1931 Bay City, a young patriot hunts union agitators while secretly funding Hollywood to produce idealized, upbeat films of a mythic America.

An impulsive 1930s teenager’s plan to kill her mother spirals into a decade‑long crime saga that spans the Great Depression, World War II Hollywood, and South Pacific jungles.

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm join forces to rescue Heat’s presumed‑dead mother and confront the ruthless Shanghai Seven.

CIA analyst Derrick Storm is drawn into a web of global intrigue when high‑ranking bankers are murdered by his long‑time foe Gregor Derrick. With a mysterious foreign agent’s help, Storm uncovers a conspiracy that threatens the world economy.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.