Books like The ninth grave by Stefan Ahnhem

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.

Detective Harry Bosch and rookie partner Lucia Soto reopen a decades‑old LAPD cold case when a stray bullet finally kills its victim, uncovering a politically charged mystery that turns out to be anything but random.

When the first snow falls in Oslo, a missing‑mothers investigation leads Inspector Harry Hole into a deadly serial‑killer game that threatens to unhinge him.

Glasgow’s underbelly is rocked when a small‑time heroin dealer is found dead, forcing a detective and an aspiring actress/private‑investigator to chase tangled clues and a missing mentor.

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.

Walter Mosley's acclaimed detective series continues as former K9 officer Leonid McGill navigates political intrigue, family burdens, and a missing‑person case in modern Manhattan.

After hospital discharge, Caroline's restorative trip to her sister Fenella's West Country home turns into a tense investigation when a violent, murderous incident erupts, spurred by Fenella’s volatile husband.

The author of The Clearing ("the finest American novel in a long, long time"--Annie Proulx) now surpasses himself with a story whose range and cast of characters is even broader, with the fate of a stolen child looming throughout.Sam Simoneaux's troopship docked in France just as World War I came to an end. Still, what he saw of the devastation there sent him back to New Orleans eager for a normal life and a job as a floorwalker in the city's biggest department store, and to start anew with his wife years after losing a son to illness. But when a little girl disappears from the store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi and providing musical entertainment en route. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous new life on the river and in the towns along its banks but also on a journey deep into the Arkansas wilderness. Here he begins to piece together what had happened to the girl--a discovery that endangers everyone involved and sheds new light on the massacre of his own family decades before.Tim Gautreaux brings to vivid life the exotic world of steamboats and shifting currents and rough crowds, of the music of the twenties, of a nation lurching away from war into an uneasy peace at a time when civilization was only beginning to penetrate a hinterlands in which law was often an unknown force. The Missing is the story of a man fighting to redeem himself, of parents coping with horrific loss with only a whisper of hope to sustain them, of others for whom kidnapping is either only a job or a dream come true. The suspense--and the complicated web of violence that eventually links Sam to complete strangers--is relentless, urgently engaging and, ultimately, profoundly moving, the finest demonstration yet of Gautreaux's understanding of landscape, history, human travail, and hope.From the Hardcover edition.

Actress‑turned‑private‑investigator Jasmine Sharp and Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod uncover a tangled web of murder, occult rituals and Scotland’s art scene when a missing sister’s disappearance turns into a homicide investigation.

Private investigator Cal Weaver and detective Barry Duckworth uncover a dark secret in Promise Falls after a mysterious hidden room and a series of murders link the town’s past to its present.

David Raker, a skeptical missing‑persons investigator, reluctantly takes on the cold case of Alex Towne, whose body was found a year after his disappearance. As Raker digs into Alex’s hidden past, he uncovers secrets that men will kill to keep secret, forcing him to confront what truly lies beyond death.

When Emily Kane finds her family missing at her sister’s house in Las Vegas, she turns to former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to uncover a decades‑old cover‑up and a trail of bodies.