Books like The hunting wind by Steve Hamilton

Jack Reacher, an ex‑military policeman, arrives in Margrave, Georgia, only to be arrested for murder—an accusation he insists is false, but in a town where he has no allies, his pursuit of truth becomes a race against time.

Nick Mason is released from five years in prison, only to find his freedom shackled by a cell‑phone tether to criminal kingpin Darius Cole. Forced into dangerous missions, he must risk his family and sanity to finally break free.

"Winter has come late - and all the more brutal - to Paradise, Michigan. For the first time since moving there, Alex is taking a hard look at his life. This is what happens when a man long used to solitude falls in love. The woman is Natalie Reynaud, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police whose cop partner has recently been killed. As far as the OPP are concerned, Natalie is responsible for his death. She needs a break - from the past as well as the present. Alex and Natalie brave a violent storm to spend a romantic weekend together in Soo, Michigan, but they are disturbed by someone who knows all about Natalie. An old blood feud is reignited; one that goes back to a dark episode buried in her family's past."--Publisher description.

Private detective Kinky Friedman is called to Hawaii when his friend Mike McGovern goes missing while researching a cookbook. A series of eccentric clues—clay figures, a museum quest, and hoax kidnappers—lead Kinky to confront danger in the islands.

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.

"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.

Alex McKnight, a private investigator, returns to Detroit to face a haunting shooting that killed his partner, following a new clue that may exonerate the convicted killer.

In a small Michigan community, a series of mysteries— a dead scientist, missing Alzheimer’s patient, and suspicious fish deaths—threaten a search‑and‑rescue team led by Bree Nicholls and her loyal dog Samson, as faith and love are tested.

"Alex Mcknight has a souvenir of his days as a cop - a bullet lodged too near his heart to be removed. He also has a guilty conscience about the death of his partner in that same shooting, and now he is left alone in his spartan log cabin, taking his meals at the nearby roadhouse, finding company there when he wants it - and not when he doesn't.". "But it doesn't work that way. When a young Native American woman comes to him asking for help, McKnight feels bound to protect her. He ensconces her in an unoccupied cabin that he owns - and finds her gone the following morning.". "McKnight is convinced that the woman's ex-lover, a particularly vicious member of the reservation hockey team, who McKnight outfaced in a recent game, has kidnapped her. Fearing for her life, he begins a frantic search, swatting away his self-appointed "partner" - the town's favorite fool - until the man surprises him. It's a search that leads to encounters with a variety of unsavory types, each with his own agenda, and to some extremely unpleasant discoveries by McKnight himself as he forcibly learns that criminal sadism knows no geographic boundaries and that the motives of both good and evil people can lead to disaster."--BOOK JACKET.

Cork O'Connor races against a looming winter storm to find a missing man in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, uncovering a deadly mystery that threatens not only his life but the lives of hundreds.

Agent JEB TANNER takes on the toughest assignment of his career: protecting his ex‑friend’s sister, Nicole Callison, from a ruthless murderer while navigating a rising attraction that could jeopardize everything.