Books like Shutter Island
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner travel to a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston Harbor to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room.
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Red Dragon
A former FBI profiler is drawn out of retirement to catch a serial killer who murders entire families by moonlight, and the investigation requires him to think like a monster.
Beast in View
Helen Clarvoe, a rich, reclusive woman living alone in a Los Angeles hotel, gets a phone call from a stranger, Evelyn Merrick, who seems to know everything about her.
Strangers on a Train
Two strangers meet on a train and one of them, Charles Bruno, proposes that they each commit the other's murder, a plan the architect Guy Haines takes for a joke.
The Bad Seed
When a boy drowns at a school picnic, Christine Penmark starts to wonder about her eight-year-old daughter Rhoda, a model child who wanted the medal he had won.
Dark Places
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered on their Kansas farm and her testimony sent her brother Ben to prison, and twenty-five years later, broke, she agrees to revisit the case for a club of true-crime obsessives.
The House in the Pines
Seven years after her best friend died suddenly in front of a strange young man named Frank, Maya, now in Boston and quietly going through withdrawal, sees a video online of another woman collapsing in Frank's company.
And Then There Were None
Ten strangers are lured to an island and killed one by one according to a nursery rhyme, with no way to escape and no one left to trust.
Where Are the Children?
Seven years after she was tried for the deaths of her two small children in California, Nancy Harmon has a new husband and two more children on Cape Cod, and on the morning a newspaper exposes her past, they vanish from the backyard.
Blacksad
An anthropomorphic cat detective investigates crime in a 1950s American-noir world.
Gone, Baby, Gone
A private detective searches for a missing four-year-old girl in a Boston neighbourhood where everyone knows what happened but no one will talk.
Mystic River
Three childhood friends in Boston are reunited by the murder of one of their daughters, and the investigation reopens wounds from a trauma they shared as boys.
The Final Girls
Ten years after Quincy Carpenter became one of the 'Final Girls', three young women who each survived a massacre, she has a baking blog and a quiet life in Manhattan, until one of the others is found dead and the third, Sam, turns up at her door.