Books like Peggy Sue Got Murdered by Tess Gerritsen

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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.

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.

When a forgotten mummy resurfaces in Boston’s Crispin Museum, forensic examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli uncover a modern murder hidden in ancient relic, and a serial killer stalking the museum’s darkest secrets.

In Boston’s Chinatown, a severed hand clutches a gun, forcing detective Jane Rizzoli to uncover the truth behind this grisly discovery.

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli investigate a brutal murder of a nun and a mutilated woman, uncovering an ancient horror that ties the killings together and threatens their own lives.

After a ski trip in Wyoming turns deadly, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles disappears in a blizzard, driving her friend, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, into a frantic search that uncovers a sinister, snow‑shrouded village called Kingdom Come.

Gina Royal is the definition of average--a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor--the ultimate warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband's crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace. But just when she's starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake--and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed--or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she's learned how to fight evil. And she'll never stop.

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli are called to investigate a serial murder that links them to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell-Jane and the Mephisto Club.

When sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne investigate the death of Meemaw Turkett on a quirky trailer‑lot, a sticky web of family secrets, a new bride, and an unlikely sheriff threatens to turn the investigation into a mystery for the ages.

Violinist Julia Ansdell finds a mysterious piece of music that transforms her daughter in ways she cannot explain, leading her on a hunt across Italy to reveal a deadly family secret.

A quiet family drama turns into a dangerous chase across Paris and Greece as Beryl Tavistock unravels her parents' murders, guiding her through the shadows of international espionage with the help of a seasoned ex‑CIA operative.

A murder mystery at a high-security boarding school turns deadly, leaving detectives Rizzoli and Isles to unravel the truth.