Books like The Corpse Bridge by Stephen Booth

A young queen abandons her wedding gown to venture into mountain tunnels, armed with chain mail and sword, as she and dwarf retainers seek a princess trapped in an enchanted sleeping kingdom.

Ex‑Detective Chief Inspector Carol Chamberlain summons Tom Thorne to unravel a decades‑old gangland murder mystery marked by an X carved into victims’ backs, as a copycat resurfaces and threatens new lives.

In England’s Peak District, Detective Constable Ben Cooper faces a chilling mystery when a repeat murder stalks the subterranean caves of Derbyshire, forcing him to revisit a decades‑old crime that could link a new killer to a long‑helmed fugitive.

"This killing will be a model of perfection. An accomplishment to be proud of. And it could be tonight or maybe next week. But it will be soon. I promise."The anonymous phone calls indicate a disturbed mind with an unnatural passion for death. Cooper and Fry are hoping against hope that the caller is just a harmless crank having some sick fun. But the clues woven through his disturbing messages point to the possibility of an all-too-real crime . . . especially when a woman vanishes from an office parking garage.But it's the mystery surrounding an unidentified female corpse left exposed in the woods for over a year that really has the detectives worried. Whoever she might have been, the dead woman is linked to the mystery caller, whose description of his twisted death rituals matches the bizarre manner in which the body was found. And the mystery only deepens when Cooper obtains a positive I.D. and learns that the dead woman was never reported missing and that she definitely wasn't murdered. As the killer draws them closer into his confidence, Ben and Diane learn everything about his deadly obsessions except what matters most: his identity and the identity of his next victim. . . .From the Hardcover edition.