Books like Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard

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.

During a covert Nazi raid on Britain in 1943, a top secret mission led by agent Kurt Steiner tries to seize Prime Minister Winston Churchill, while IRA gunman Liam Devlin offers unexpected resistance.

At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What's more, Martin is being offered a job--to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.Martin is intrigued by Strafford's story, by the man's overwhelming love for a beautiful suffragette, by her inexplicable rejection of him and their love affair's political repercussions. But as he retraces Strafford's ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance; he was pushed. Suddenly Martin, who has not cared for many people in his life, cares desperately--about a man's mysterious death and a family's terrible secret, about a love beyond reckoning and betrayal beyond imagining. Most of all Martin cares because the story he is uncovering is not yet over--and among the men and women still caught in its web, Martin himself may be the most vulnerable of all....From the Trade Paperback edition.

Major Martin Bora, a German counter‑intelligence officer, investigates the mysterious deaths of two Russian generals aboard a T-34 during the Kursk counter‑offensive in 1943 Ukraine.

In occupied Venice of 1945, a fisherman named Cenzo discovers a woman, Giulia, who is a young Jewish refugee from the German SS. Their unexpected bond leads them into the perilous world of Partisans, forgery, and the secrets of the lagoon.

A wartime London murder forces former Scotland Yard detective John Madden to pursue a ruthless killer and uncover connections to resistance, stolen diamonds, and a Parisian furrier amid 1944's blackout chaos.

An American author's memories of Europe in 1945, including China, France, Spain, and the Bahamas.

Set on a hot summer day in Avebury, an ordinary afternoon at the Red Lion pub is shattered when a child is abducted, sparking a suspenseful investigation that could reveal deeper secrets in this English thriller.

Los Alamos is a gripping thriller about the Manhattan Project, the invention of the atomic bomb, and the dangerous consequences of a scientist's infidelity.

A summer walk along Offa's Dyke turns into a haunting investigation when an elegant woman is murdered, leading a curious tramp to uncover secrets that threaten powerful people.

In the isolated island of Castellamare, a bougainvillea‑draped café known as the House at the Edge of Night becomes the heart of an intertwined community whose lives—shaped by war, fascism and deep family bonds—spans nearly a century.