Books like Houston in the rearview mirror by Susan Rogers Cooper

Detective Harry Bosch and rookie partner Lucia Soto reopen a decades‑old LAPD cold case when a stray bullet finally kills its victim, uncovering a politically charged mystery that turns out to be anything but random.

Harper Connelly, a private investigator, is hired by a North Carolina town to locate a missing teenager. She discovers a pattern of vanished teens whose bodies lie buried in the frozen ground, and when the killers close in, she must decide how much she will risk to survive the investigation.

If a middle‑aged woman is hanged for murder, who would have known her tragic past? Ruth Rendell’s Barbara Vine novel dissects a family’s buried secrets, exploring the slow descent into violence and control.

Hailed by Tom Wolfe as "the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and Pavlov," sixties media theorist Marshall McLuhan was the first person to grasp the full and radical implications of mass media for contemporary life. Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is a multidimensional, unconventional look at McLuhan's life and ideas in the context of the information age. An evocative, imaginative, and visually exciting mosaic of aphorisms and images, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror presents McLuhan's own words - short prose, aphorisms, interviews, letters, and dialogues - alongside reminiscences about him by today's most renowned cultural critics. Part book, part magazine, part storyboard, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is a provocative, insightful, and unprecedented exploration of McLuhan, his message, and its meaning.

Actress Diana Poole, racing against time and budget, returns to Hollywood to save her career after her mother’s murder, only to discover the lead actress’s corpse and a tangled web of industry secrets that threaten her life.

Detective Cork O'Connor and his daughter Jenny uncover a murdered teenager and a perilously endangered baby on the remote Lake of the Woods.

IN THE STEAMY HEAT OF SOUTHERN NIGHTS, PASSION AND DANGER BURN RED-HOT It was so sudden. So strange. The lawyers. The journey to lush, hot Key West. Could Julie Malone really be Suellen Devereaux, who disappeared eight years ago after a series of bizarre tragedies left her parents and twin sister dead? She stood to inherit millions. But there were so many unanswered questions. Why couldn't she remember her life as Suellen? And what about her life as Julie--her love for Ken, and her growing attraction for handsome Shell? Then the accidents begin. Strange, eerie accidents that leave Julie terrified. Someone is watching. And waiting. Someone wants Suellen to disappear.. . forever.