Books like The cold spot by Tom Piccirilli

A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

Stephen King’s Revival follows a charismatic preacher’s rise and fall in a small New England town, exploring music, addiction, and religious fanaticism amid family drama and supernatural mystery.

During a Boy Scouts weekend in the Canadian wilderness, a thin, pale intruder appears, carrying a bioengineered horror that spreads faster than fear and forces the young scouts to face unimaginable choices.

Two widowers in upstate New York pursue trout in Dutchman's Creek and uncover a dark, ancient secret tied to the Ashokan Reservoir, forcing them to confront loss and the price of reclaiming what they lost.

James Sallis’s hard‑boiled crime thriller Drive follows a relentless driver‑turned‑private‑investigator in the underbelly of Los Angeles and Phoenix, where auto stunts and danger collide.

A plot twist detective story featuring John Dortmunder, a thief with a conscience, and his nemesis Kelp, the FBI agent who has given up on the force to become a private detective.

Parker, the relentless thief, schemes to retrieve a heist’s stolen money hidden in an unused church choir loft, confronting law and rival gangsters in a high‑stakes chase.

A bumbling thief, Dortmunder, returns from the wild, sparking a police chase and a series of crimes across the city.

"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.

At a high‑school reunion in Trippton, Minnesota, a frozen body sparks Virgil Flowers’s investigation into cold‑case secrets and long‑held grudges, proving that the past can turn deadly.

Eddie Whitt is driven to hunt the serial killer Killjoy after his daughter Sarah is murdered, but when Killjoy stops killing and starts kidnapping infants, a trail of taunting letters leads Whitt into a deadly cult and into the brink of losing his sanity.

A detective named Dortmunder is burglarized by a billionaire and must find a lucky ring to clear his name

Parker escapes a botched country‑town bank robbery, only to be pursued by a shotgun‑armed local who offers him a partnership in a new heist.

A corrupt CEO's heist gone wrong.

A gripping tale of grifters and con artists as a brother and sister team navigate love, loyalty and survival on Los Angeles’ illegal streets, while an ex‑convict seeks redemption and a brighter future.

This is the funniest of the Dortmunder series

An ex-cop, John Dortmunder, reluctantly joins the criminal underworld to recover a stolen treasure, facing impossible odds and a mysterious past.

Mario Puzo's novels explore the world of organized crime and the lives of Italian Americans in New York.