Books like The Death Chamber by Sarah Rayne

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.

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Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

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.

Vicar Sidney Chambers of Grantchester investigates a series of crimes, blending pastoral charm with detective skill in post-war Britain.

FBI special agent Pierce Quincy teams with ex‑cop Rainie Connor to chase a psychopathic killer who preys on the minds of his victims, forcing them to confront the darkest fears close to home.

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated .A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other...

An anesthesiologist accused of malpractice must chase a conspiracy after a tragic childbirth, racing against time to clear his name and uncover the truth.

Shy Gerard Freeman battles haunting memories of his mother’s death while trying to preserve a century‑old ghost story once owned by his great‑grandmother.

Nell West returns to her late husband’s childhood home—a supposedly haunted house on the site of Isobel Action’s infamous crime—and hears piano music even though the instrument is locked and its key is missing.

"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.

An investigative thriller where sister Stephanie Coburn pieces together a series of tragic murders connected by a hidden secret, as police ignore her and she teams up with another victim’s son to chase vengeance.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

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

After his wife is killed in a hit‑and‑run, a grieving husband uses an artist’s sketch to hunt the driver, even befriending the driver’s sister as part of an elaborate revenge plot.

Martin Arkenhout is a young serial killer who murders and then adopts the identities of his victims, plunging a cautious narrator and his own troubled life into a deadly chase across New York, the Bahamas, Amsterdam, and Portugal.

The famous crime author Harold Vickers is found dead in his own study, surrounded by inexplicable evidence of a murder in progress.

When her husband leaves her, a thirty‑eight‑year‑old Sarah Winston turns to yard‑sale hunting in Ellington, Massachusetts, only to find a blood‑stained shirt that links her ex‑husband, the town’s chief of police, to a cruel disappearance. Now she must use her newfound sleuthing skills to expose the truth before another treasure is lost to murder.

A widow confronts the secrets of her late husband as she visits the site of his fatal accident, discovering that she did not truly know him.