Books like Southern cross by Stephen Greenleaf

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

When train passengers overhear fresh‑prison inmates flirting, a teenage girl’s instinct is triggered—and a year later a mysterious disappearance turns into a chilling stalker threat.

Hank Mitchell’s calm routine shatters when he, his brother Jacob, and their cynical accomplice Lou uncover an astonishing treasure that threatens to consume them with greed and danger.

Sharon McCone, a solo private investigator in San Francisco, finds herself entangled with a mysterious client and a high‑flying helicopter when death threats force her into a dangerous new case.