Books like So Dies the Dreamer by Ursula Curtiss

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

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.

A young woman returns to her Connecticut hometown to investigate a death that occurred thirteen years earlier, confronting a chilling mystery that may involve her foster-sister and a hidden truth.

Amanda inherits a house while her aunt lies in hospital and discovers a hidden underground shelter. A murderer and his dangerous half‑brother have their sights on her, forcing her and a baby she is babysitting to survive a deadly chase through snowbound streets.

"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 locked‑room murder mystery where the death of Miles Despard is linked to eerie supernatural hints, raising questions about time and impossible intrusions.

Rich Kate Whitmore and rogue Devlin McCain journey into Brazil’s jungle to uncover an ancient mystery, a journey that sparks a fierce romance.