Books like Close to home by Robert Dugoni

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.

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

James Ellroy’s gritty noir jazz in 1958 Los Angeles follows corrupt LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein as federal investigators turn the city’s underworld into a deadly prison of power and betrayal.

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

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Seattle cop Tracy Crosswhite faces the mystery of her sister Sarah’s disappearance after over 20 years, only to discover a newly found body that may finally link her to the crime she doubts. A cold case and a lingering killer collide.

A seasoned lawyer in Seattle takes on a new murder case that spirals into intrigue and legal battle.

Bertha Cool & Donald Lam investigate a long‑hidden disappearance in Los Angeles, chasing a decades‑old address and a whispered scandal with a private eye firm run under the motto ‘Confidential Investigations.’

A deaf journalist solves crimes in a mining town while tracking down a madman in Flat Skunk.

Seattle detective Tracy Crosswhite investigates the disappearance and murder of a young woman, all while coping with her own pregnancy and looming career changes.