Books like The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag

Two police detectives uncover a chilling village mystery, linking a recent fatal traffic incident to a decade‑old disappearance and a controversial murder conviction.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

A chilling police procedural in which a car crash survivor, Nicky Frank, may be a brain‑damaged liar as detectives hunt a missing child and uncover a sinister conspiracy.

"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.

Retired detectives J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker reunite to unravel a cold case that stretches from a vanished prospector to a Seattle homicide, as they confront suspects, past injustices and a looming killer who may own the key to the truth.

A television producer and her lawyer host investigate the mysterious killing of UCLA student Susan Dempsey in the first episode of their cold‑case series, "Under Suspicion," uncovering secrets among Hollywood elites and tech billionaires.

When a childhood friend disappears without a trace, a former TV reporter haunted by PTSD must confront the past and uncover a cold case that could reveal a terror she never imagined.

Patricia Cornwell’s standalone novel follows investigator Winston Garano as he unravels a twenty‑year‑old murder case that forces him to confront buried truths across Massachusetts and Tennessee.

Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne wrestles with a shocking case when a beloved Philadelphia socialite, Camilla Rose Morgan, seemingly jumps to her death from a balcony, forcing him to confront the possibility of foul play and hidden mental illness.

Senior police officer Richard Jury investigates a long‑forgotten murder of Tess, a wife whose death was ruled an accidental fall, possibly linked to a fatal incident at a children’s party and a recent tower collapse near his bars.

A disgraced university lecturer is murdered near his home, prompting Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to probe a web of political activism, academic scandal, and police corruption on the Essex campus.

On Halloween, a missing‑mother mystery turns into a chilling police investigation when a former teen prank goes deadly. A detective must now confront her past and a series of ominous footprints before the next victim falls.