Books like Cape Refuge by Terri Blackstock

Miss Marple finds herself in the Caribbean, where a mysterious old soldier hints at a strange coincidence that could spark adventure.

When a middle‑aged spinster abandons her city life for a summer home in the Adirondacks, she becomes tangled in a murder investigation carried out by town detectives.

Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary investigate a missing journalist in Reading, chasing clues that lead to the Three Bears and a mystery rooted in nursery rhyme lore.

Detective Will Trent races to uncover a sinister killer after a teenage girl is brutally murdered in Atlanta’s affluent Ansley Park, unraveling a web of secrets, abandoned lives and the hidden dangers lurking behind the city’s polished façade.

Karin Slaughter’s Faithless follows medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver as they investigate a buried‑alive murder in Georgia, uncovering family secrets, police corruption and a killer more dangerous than imagined.

Seattle detective J. P. Beaumont tackles the mysterious murder of an ex‑convict, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches high into law enforcement and threatens his own life.

Model murder sparks a media frenzy and a hunt by private investigator Lucas Davenport, who must confront a suspect from his own ranks and a string of inexplicable killings hinting at a chilling, hidden conspiracy.

Stone Barrington, a former CIA operative turned private investigator, delves into the mysterious suicide of his cousin, navigating family ties, intelligence intrigue, and the gritty streets of Maine.

Two bodies, one spear gun, and a murder suspect. But did Morgan Cleary’s husband really kill her parents? A brutal double-murder has struck fear into the heart of the peaceful Cape Refuge community. The crime weapon belongs to the victims’ son-in-law, but Police Chief Cade remains unconvinced that his best friend took the lives of Thelma and Wade Owens. The Owens’ ministry, a halfway house, shelters individuals far more questionable than Jonathan Cleary. Now people are concerned that it may house a murderer who could strike again. Shattered by her parents’ deaths, Morgan Cleary struggles to keep Hanover House running while her husband sits in jail. Her sister, Blair, is no help. Blair wants no part of her dead parents’ ministry or their Christian faith. She wants to sell the house — until her determined search to find the true killer uncovers some startling findings. A lethal race against time ensues for Morgan, Blair, and Cade, with far more than Hanover House at stake.

When a bomb devastates the Newpointe post office, attorney Jill Clark becomes a hostage and confronts the mystery of the killer—both a race against time and a test of faith.

Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates a mysterious murder in the Yorkshire Dales, while Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, once a lover, comes to help and uncover the darker aspects of his family's past.

After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Abbie Devereaux must discover who held her captive in an airless shed and why she was targeted, as her memories fade and danger looms again.

A corrupt CEO's heist gone wrong.

Private investigator Tess Monaghan is hired to protect star Selene Waites on the set of the troubled TV series *Mann of Steel* in Baltimore, but soon a murder threatens to unravel the production and her city.

Thomas Pitt, a Special Branch operative, is called to investigate a murder at Connaught Square, where a junior diplomat's body lies in a wheelbarrow. Suspicion falls on the house’s Egyptian tenant, Ayesha Zakhari, as political intrigue and a looming trial threaten to expose hidden scandals.

In quiet Newpointe, Louisiana, a serial killer stalks the town’s firemen’s wives while couple Mark and Allie Branning fight for their crumbling marriage and lives.

Detective V.I. Warshawski coaches her alma‑mater’s girls’ basketball team, only to become embroiled in a mystery at the multinational retailer By‑Smart when a teenage grandson vanishes with a prized document, sending her on a perilous Chicago road to uncover dark secrets.

Eve Duncan, a renowned facial‑reconstruction specialist, is lured into the Colombian jungle by the world’s most dangerous outlaw, Luis Montalvo, to identify a skull that could unlock a buried secret, risking her life and relationships.