Books like Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

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.

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.

Detective Alex Cross races through Washington, D.C. to track a brutal murderer who took a loved one—his pursuit leads him and his partner Brianna Stone into the city’s darkest underbelly, where powerful secrets threaten to destroy them all.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

Richard Hannay, a bored Londoner who returns from South Africa, is thrust into a high‑stakes espionage chase after a murder tied to an assassination plot, forcing him to flee to Scotland and outwit his pursuers.

A London messenger finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy when delivering the memoirs of a deceased European count, leading to murder, blackmail, and a race to prove innocence at the historic English estate of Chimneys.

A Chicago art teacher’s one‑night encounter turns into a kidnapping thriller as she is whisked away to rural Minnesota, setting off a desperate search by her powerful family and a determined detective.

Penn Cage, the son of a respected doctor, must unravel the mystery when his father is accused of murdering nurse Violet Davis during the turbulent 1960s Mississippi.

A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.

Nelson DeMille’s thriller follows Wall‑Street lawyer John Sutter as he confronts a Mafia don on Long Island’s Gold Coast, weaving friendship, seduction and betrayal into a suspenseful legal drama.

A snowbound Catskills inn turns deadly as guests are washed out of contact during a blizzard, and one by one they begin to die in what seems like a sinister murder mystery.

A Southern lawyer battles corrupt law enforcement and a malevolent terrorist group to defend his father, whose decades‑old murder charge unearths dark secrets from the civil‑rights era in Mississippi.

Stone Barrington tackles a high‑stakes mystery when his wealthy client’s quest to repel a persistent admirer spirals into murder. The investigation uncovers an elusive, priceless historic jewelry piece that may be the motive for deadly crime.

A suspenseful tale of a school shooting in a small town, where the characters must confront their fears and grudges.

Adam Lang, Britain's controversial prime minister, hires a new ghostwriter to complete his memoirs. However, the newly assigned writer discovers an even darker past and deadly secrets that put the entire country in danger.

In this thrilling collaboration with Alafair Burke, a kidnapping at New York’s Met Gala triggers a suspenseful investigation that unravels a cold‑case mystery, exposing the dangers of fame and media frenzy.

Three sisters confront a dangerous family secret when their long‑time enemy, Uncle Paul, is released from prison, forcing them to face grief, suspicion, and vengeance on a familiar seaside retreat.

"A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway. But when the storm hits, no one is getting away. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing maybe even romantic weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery. So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity and all contact with the outside world the guests settle in for the long haul. Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic. Within the snowed-in paradise, something or someone is picking off the guests one by one. And there's nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm"--