Books like Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

In London, three women share a flat and a mystery when the third claims she has committed murder and then vanishes. Hercule Poirot must piece together rumours and evidence to determine her guilt, innocence, or madness.

A university mystery club's excursion to a murder‑ridden island unravels with a lone killer stalking them—revealing a twist few can foresee.

A gripping psychological thriller about a murder mystery spanning decades, told through the intertwined lives of a writer and the artist colony where a tragic event took place.

A chilling crime mystery set in a small Southern town

A gripping mystery story following teenage girls grappling with personal tragedy and the pursuit of justice in a small English town.

When Jules Capshaw discovers that her parents’ wedding plans are threatened by a poisoner's deadly plot, she must race to uncover the killer before the vows are even spoken.

A master ninja and a Jesuit priest race against time in sixteenth‑century Japan to prevent a wrongful execution by solving a samurai’s murder amid a web of suspects.

Physicist‑turned‑detective Manabu Yukawa, known as "Detective Galileo," investigates a mysterious murder in the distressed seaside town of Hari Cove, where an underwater mining plan fuels both hope and conflict.

Chef and police officer Caleb Rooney investigates a series of poison-related restaurant murders in New Orleans, racing against time to uncover the killer before more diners die.

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality - and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals? This ingenious crime novel, with its unusual 'inverted' structure and sympathetic portrait of a man on the edge, is one of the greatest works by this highly respected author.

A whodunit is set in the Hollywood movie colony at the height of its Golden Age. A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood hills, and with him working to produce her novel for an upcoming film, the pair's recent marriage isn't the only way that they're connected. But when the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday, using a method of poisoning that was described in one of her books, Victoria suddenly becomes the main suspect as her new happy life comes crashing down around her. The case appears straightforward from the outside, but the LAPD investigator on the scene finds the truth to be anything but. Though all the signs point to Victoria, there's no motive to be found. Now, to solve the mystery of whodunnit, he'll have to dig beneath the veneer of the household and reveal its inner workings, and to understand the deadly drama that unfolded just beneath the surface.

When a missing Ojibwe girl’s body washes up on a Lake Superior island, former sheriff‑turned‑private investigator Cork O’Connor battles myths, silence, and a sex‑trafficking ring to uncover the truth and save the girl’s family.