Books like Joyland by Stephen King

A retired cop and an obsessive killer collide in a high‑stakes hunt where every move could save thousands.

A mystery by Stephen King in which a crime series of missing persons, homicide, and forensic investigation unfolds in Maine.

U.S. Army investigator John Puller teams with a local detective to unravel a brutal family murder in West Virginia, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills.

In Wyoming’s remote Black Hills, game warden Joe Pickett lands at a mysterious ranch where rumours of hidden wealth and murder swirl. He must uncover the truth while confronting dangerous locals and unexpected betrayal.

A suspenseful novel set 18 years after the murder of Bellamy Lyston Price's sister, exploring themes of family secrets, the dangers of fame, and the struggle for justice in a world where a killer has eluded the law for two decades.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

A chilling crime mystery set in a small Southern town

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

Orphaned Wren and her friend Alec live on the island of Edgeland, a land where the dead are prepared for the afterlife. When a mysterious drain sweeps them away, they encounter an unimaginable secret beyond the known world.

"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.

Plot: A growing group of leering, belligerent punks known as the Trolls are intimidating fun-seekers at the coastal amusement park Funland, and some of the local teens blame the Trolls for a series of missing persons and decide to fight back late one night. But what’s really behind the disappearances is waiting for them all in the funhouse... The basic premise of Funland is that a group of teenagers (the tollers) are sick of all the bums (trolls) hanging out on the boardwalk – Funland. These bums aren’t just homeless people, they are crazy. So they take it upon themselves to start hunting the trolls after the park closes. At first its just innocent little pranks, but then the pranks turn deadly.

A cold case in France sets off a clash of wine and the criminal underworld.

Owen is trapped inside a time‑traveling plot‑your‑own adventure book controlled by the reader; with the help of a fellow captive, Kara Dox, he must find a way out to save his friend Bethany.

Detective Chief Inspector Blair plots to remove Hamlet’s loyal Sergeant Hamish Macbeth from Lochdubh, but after Cyril Sessions is murdered, Macbeth becomes the main suspect in a tense Scottish police investigation.

A Biblical scholar uncovers a mysterious letter from Jesus, leading him on a thrilling hunt to find the lost scroll that could change the world.