Books like An Isolated Incident by Susan M. Sloan

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

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.

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

Public defender Kendall Deaton in Prosper, South Carolina, must flee after uncovering a town secret and confronting her powerful husband, while protecting her baby and navigating a treacherous escape amid threats to her life and the truth she holds.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

Inspector Sloan investigates a corpse discovered in a stately house during a public tour, with Constable Crosby and a mischievous boy in tow. Clues involve a nephew, blackmail attempts, and peculiar tea‑serving by two eccentric great‑aunts.

When a crow drops a human finger on a walking club member’s path, a search for a missing body brings together police, community members and local farmers in a quiet English village.

Jesse Stone investigates a series of deaths linked to a local crime family while dealing with personal turmoil and a budding partnership with private investigator Sunny Randall.

Detective Inspector C. D. Sloane investigates a death that may be murder after a letter arrives at a nursing home for WWII veterans.

It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival.

In 1981 Houston, attorney Jay Porter’s attempt at a fresh start is shattered when a rescue on a bayou draws him into a murder investigation tied to high‑level corporate corruption, forcing him to confront his past and danger at every turn.

"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.

Detective Peter Decker must untangle a puzzling disappearance of a diamond dealer’s family from their Los Angeles estate, but the case deepens when another dealer is murdered in Manhattan, pulling Decker and his wife Rina into a global web of intrigue that ends in their own backyard.

Doreen, a young Gypsy girl, is separated from her family and brought into the care of two sisters who insist she attends school, forcing her to confront both her own prejudices and those of the community.

When nine‑year‑old Thuy Sen’s body is found in San Francisco, her brothers Rennell and Payton Price are quickly convicted and sentenced to death, only for an overworked pro‑bono lawyer to discover the trial may have been flawed.

When sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to abandon her child after a forbidden pregnancy with a Nazi soldier, she discovers a boxcar of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and steals one to escape.