Books like Deadfall by Sue Henry

Allan Brennan secures a wilderness guide apprenticeship at Denali, watching his father's mysterious death while crossing paths with his boss’s daughter, Cassidy. Their uneasy alliance forces them to confront secrets and danger amid the Alaskan frontier.

Joanne Brady is elected sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, where she confronts a hostile, male‑dominated police force and a grisly double homicide that reveals deep family secrets and generational crime.

When teen Bree O'Brien disappears from Arizona’s Skeleton Canyon, a determined sheriff must untangle a web of lies, greed, and danger to uncover the truth behind her murder.

After a shooting that kills her husband, Joanna Brady becomes Cochise County Sheriff, juggling grief, a teenage daughter, police training, and a looming serial killer threat that endangers her family.

Deputy chief of police Holly Barker, newly retired from the military, tackles an island’s murderous mystery in Orchid Beach, Florida, with the help of her unusually sharp Doberman, Daisy.

After two patrons are murdered on successive nights at a play, detective Kathy Mallory investigates the killings and mystery chalkboard messages backstage.

A gripping mystery set along Alaska’s famed Iditarod sled‑dog race, where a female musher and a state trooper unravel a homicide amid the harsh 1,000‑mile journey from Anchorage to Nome.

After agreeing to star in a high‑profile TV commercial, Jessica Fletcher discovers a producer murdered on set and must solve the case, turning her sleuthing skills to a glamorous and deadly Hollywood backdrop.

Midwife Sarah Brandt, grieving her husband, serves New York tenements while Detective Frank Malloy hunts Dr. Tom Brandt’s killer, uncovering a shocking truth that could destroy both their lives.

Police detective Hazel Micallef returns to the force after a painful surgery only to investigate a lake‑body that eerily mirrors a disturbing newspaper story, uncovering a relentless, manipulative killer who knows her every move.

An Arizona ex‑sheriff, Brandon Walker, is drawn back into the law by a cold case of a murdered Papago girl. Haunted by past failures, he partners with former law‑enforcers to uncover a terror that blurs science and mysticism.

> Charles Rathlyn has everything - a benefactress, a rich wife, and a comfortable country life. While riding to the hounds one day he takes a terrible spill, and, on reviving, finds himself looking into a pair of beautiful brown eyes. He knows he has fallen again - in love. But are these falls, and those soft brown eyes, linked to yet another fall - the fatal plunge which the unloved Mrs. Rathlyn takes over the banister to the parquet floor below? >"Chief Constable Col. John Netterly is a reliable detective in the best British tradition; and the novel culminates in one of the most effective whipsnap endings of recent years."-Anthony Boucher, The New York Times >"One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with under-currents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy etching."-Time