Books like Prior Bad Acts (Hoag, Tami) by Tami Hoag

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

When train passengers overhear fresh‑prison inmates flirting, a teenage girl’s instinct is triggered—and a year later a mysterious disappearance turns into a chilling stalker threat.

When Marissa Fordham is found dead with her daughter Haley on her bloody breast, Sheriff Tony Mendez and child advocate‑turned‑teacher Anne Leone must unravel a web of lies to protect an innocent witness and uncover a chilling truth: Marissa never existed.

When a brutal murder in Minneapolis triggers a citywide manhunt, detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska navigate a maze of suspects—even a judge—while a serial killer escapes, forcing them into a dangerous pursuit where every clue hints at hidden crimes.

A high‑profile political romance set in Vermont, where a former fashion icon and a congressman unexpectedly meet in the woods of the Foxfire estate, sparking a passionate and dangerous affair that tests both love and ambition.

Former undercover cop Elena Estes, now a horse trainer on the fringes of Palm Beach society, must unravel a murder that ties her back to her past, the Russian mob, and a powerful alibi network that could cost her life.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

"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.

FBI agent Vince Leone uses cutting‑edge profiling to investigate a chilling kidnapping in the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll, unearthing secrets that challenge even the most seasoned investigators.