Books like Play Dirty by Sandra Brown

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

Twin sisters Melina and Gillian become unwillingly embroiled in a NASA escort cover‑up after a murder, and together they must outwit a megalomaniacal killer who still demands the twin switch.

Detective Alex Cross tackles a brutal serial‑murder case in Washington, D.C., while a dangerous plastic surgeon and other dark forces threaten to derail the investigation.

A relentless mastermind turns Alex Cross’s devotion into a deadly game, threatening the family he loves most.

When a desperate man blocks her home, former police officer Honor Gillette must follow his twisted demands to protect her daughter, only to uncover a conspiracy that endangers them both and the nation.

When famed contract killer Ricky Lozada goes on trial, Dr. Rennie Newton sits on the jury and finds herself both acquitted and pursued by a deadly obsessive killer.

A wealthy New York family’s son is kidnapped, forcing a detective to investigate a ruthless kidnapper who demands moral truth instead of ransom. With the FBI and city leaders involved, the case threatens the city’s stability.

A wealthy Atlanta businessman is murdered, and his nephew becomes the prime suspect. A celebrated defense lawyer and the victim’s beautiful mistress clash as secrets unspool, ending in a dramatic twist that keeps readers guessing.

When Israeli police escort a suspect carrying a stolen religious relic, Virgil Flowers discovers the artifact holds startling secrets about King Solomon, and soon finds himself hunted by ruthless rivals who will kill anyone protecting its truth.

Detective Will Trent races to uncover a sinister killer after a teenage girl is brutally murdered in Atlanta’s affluent Ansley Park, unraveling a web of secrets, abandoned lives and the hidden dangers lurking behind the city’s polished façade.

Karin Slaughter’s Faithless follows medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver as they investigate a buried‑alive murder in Georgia, uncovering family secrets, police corruption and a killer more dangerous than imagined.

When crime lord Manuel Perrine escapes prison, he seeks revenge on Detective Michael Bennett and everyone he loves. A tense hunt unfolds as the FBI’s witness‑protection program shelters Bennett’s family on a rural California farm.

Renko investigates the mysterious death of a Russian billionaire, leading him into the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone where militia, scavengers and reluctant peasants hide secrets about post‑Cold‑War Russia.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

Former superstar couple Thom and Jennifer Harlow vanish from their ranch, sparking a private‑investigation by famed agent Jack Morgan into secrets of fame, family, and financial ruin.

Ned Talbot, a seasoned bookmaker at Royal Ascot, is stunned when a stranger claims to be his father and is then stabbed. He must uncover the mystery before the fatal stakes of horse racing and family secrets catch up with him.

Two men on a road trip find themselves chased by a dangerous, mentally unstable killer.

Special Agent Will Trent probes a tangled murder in Grant County, Georgia, uncovering grim secrets about a prisoner's death, a policewoman’s involvement, and the murder of the beloved county chief.

After losing his wife, Texas Ranger Crawford Hunt fights to regain custody of his daughter, while ambitious judge Holly Spencer battles politics on the bench. A courtroom gunman threatens their lives and forces them to confront danger, duty and a growing attraction.

"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.

A murder mystery set in contemporary Oxford where a dinner party turns deadly when one guest seduces Karen, leading Dennis, an English teacher, and his wife into a web of adultery, black humor, and ruthless violence.

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

In downtown Detroit, a retired lawyer’s household turns deadly when a night of heavy drinking and mistaken identities leaves two bodies, two hit men, and a treasure in a safe‑deposit box, prompting detective Frank Delsa to unravel a labyrinth of crime.