Books like Missing Beauty by Teresa Carpenter

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

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

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.

Sheriff Grace Delaney swaps her quiet town for Las Vegas to help a handsome stranger with amnesia. When his identity as privileged playboy Jackson Hawke surfaces, Grace must choose between a glamorous life and the man she has grown to love.

A true crime account revealing how Barbara Stager, revered in Durham, North Carolina, concealed a series of murders behind a façade of devotion, prompting relentless detective work.

Halfway Heaven presents the intertwined stories of two Harvard students whose lives ended tragically amid campus mental health challenges.

A New York attorney inherits her estranged mother’s will, prompting her to reunite with siblings who survived a traumatic family past and to confront a brother who turned their shared trauma into a lucrative business.

Emma Davis, a rising New York artist, returns to the reopened Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to uncover the truth behind her friends' disappearance, confronting hidden secrets and dangerous threats that may exact a deadly cost for closure.

A gripping true-crime account of the 1986 Howard Beach hate-murder in Queens, detailing the investigation, trial, and the relentless pursuit of justice by Special Prosecutor Charles J. Hynes.

Explores the shocking case of six‑year‑old Lisa Steinberg’s murder, examining the psychological, sexual, and social dynamics that led to the crime.

A gripping nonfiction account of LAPD officer Bill Leasure, whose crimes expose police corruption in Los Angeles, revealed through exclusive jail‑cell interviews conducted by Pulitzer‑winning journalist Edward Humes.

A true‑crime investigation into the 1928 disappearance of Grace Budd in New York, detailing the relentless search, national press coverage, and the shocking crimes of Albert Fish.

Reconstructing the 1811 Radcliffe Highway murders, P. D. James partners with historian T. A. Critchley to expose Regency London’s rudimentary police response to serial killings that shocked the nation.

A relentless investigation follows former Manhattan DA Andy Rosenzweig as he hunts the elusive hit‑man Frankie Koehler, a double‑homicide suspect who disappeared 27 years earlier and whose existence the NYPD still claims is dead.

"Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of each poet included. The collection explores first the precursors whose poems had a complex (and sometimes absent) relationship with disability, such as Vassar Miller, Larry Eigner, and Josephine Miles. It continues with poets who have generated the Crip Poetics Movement, such as Petra Kuppers, Kenny Fries, and Jim Ferris. Finally, the collection explores the work of poets who don't necessarily subscribe to the identity of "crip-poetics" and have never before been published in this exact context. These poets include Bernadette Mayer, Rusty Morrison, Cynthia Hogue, and C. S. Giscombe. The book crosses poetry movements--from narrative to language poetry--and speaks to and about a number of disabilities including cerebral palsy, deafness, blindness, multiple sclerosis, and aphasia due to stroke, among others"--