Books like Nightlife by Thomas Perry

Detective Harry Bosch is drawn into a chilling series of ritual murders that threaten Los Angeles, forcing him to confront the city’s darkness and his own past.

Retired colonial policeman Luke Fitzwilliam returns to England to investigate a series of murders reported by a woman he meets on a train, including a threat of a serial killer targeting a village doctor.

Set in 1933 East Texas, the novel follows young Harry Collins and his sister as they investigate two brutal murders that ignite racial tension and threaten a small town during the Great Depression.

A murder‑for‑hire assassin kills a senator, becomes a target to his employers, and is pursued by a Justice Department analyst who uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and partner Barbara Havers trail a serial killer in London, confronting race politics and police turmoil while hunting the psychopath who strikes in a ruthless pattern.

Action packed...The butcher's boy at his best

On New Year’s Eve the capital is terrorized by a machine‑gun‑armed assassin, the Digger, and FBI agents must race to stop him before midnight.

After World War I, Inspector John Madden investigates a brutal murder in a quiet village, using the emerging science of criminal psychology to unravel a serial killer’s plans.

Private eye C.W. Sughrue takes a job in Montana that pulls him into the decades‑old mystery of a missing woman from Haight‑Ashbury.

Faye Kellerman’s investigative novel blends meticulous historical research with a Munich police procedural, following detectives as they confront a string of serial murders amid wartime Germany.

"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.

A serial killer has escaped from a mental hospital, and a detective must hunt her down before it's too late.

A chilling psychological thriller about two women caught in the grip of a series of gruesome murders in Yorkshire.

In Twisted, LAPD detective Petra Connor tackles a string of identical drive‑by murders that point to a cunning, long‑evaded killer. With no leads and departmental politics at odds, she must race against time to stop a deadly pattern before it repeats.

The Fourth Sacrifice is a gripping mystery novel featuring a seasoned police detective and a brilliant forensic pathologist as they investigate a series of gruesome murders in a remote Chinese city.

"Lainey Colton returns to Deer Creek, Pennsylvania, to care for her beloved great-aunt Rebecca. Lawyer Jake Evans questions her motives, but is drawn to her. However, no amount of attraction will matter if he can't keep her safe from a mysterious threat"--

Two Victorian holiday mysteries unfold in the snow‑bound winterlands of Britain, where a lone Scotland Yard officer and a Londoner’s sister-in-law dig up long‑forgotten murders while the silent nights threaten to keep the killers hidden.