If You Like Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver grabbed attention with his stand alone Psychological Thrillers, then kicked his career into the stratosphere with his first Lincoln Rhyme novel. In his writing career, he has explored the worlds of forensic investigation, police detectives, amateur sleuths and computer hackers with astonishing confidence and an eye for crucial details. Victory for the good guys is never certain in these stories, and the price they pay for winning against evil is usually a very high one. Part of Deaver's skill is his ability to portray villains who turn the very methods of the heroes back on them to confuse, delay and defeat the forces of good – in the end, the heroes only survive through their courage and determination. By telling tightly plotted tales with interesting main characters and strong secondary casts, and by ratcheting up the tension in every chapter, Deaver has won a large and loyal following of readers who like their detectives smart, their villains smarter, and their pages flying past.
– Andrew Smith, Readers Advisory Librarian

Murder Suicide   by Keith Ablow
Drawing upon his real-life experience of evaluating and treating criminals, Ablow delivers a chilling story featuring forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger, who ventures into a dead man's dark past to unearth the truth in an explosive mystery of passion and betrayal. Also try Psychopath or The Architect.

Gone, Baby, Gone   by Dennis Lehane
The neighborhood is no place for the innocent, the young, the defenseless or the pure. This is a territory of broken families, bitter cops, whacked out ex-cons, and a mother who watches herself on the nightly news as her missing child floats further and further into the unknown. Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want this case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they embark upon an investigation and ultimately risk losing everything – their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives – to find this little-girl-lost. Also try Mystic River or Shutter Island.

Eureka  by William Diehl
Eureka. It's what you say when you strike gold. It's also a town in California where the truth might be buried forever. In New York Times bestselling author William Diehl's thrilling, accomplished new novel, the seamy past of America's most glamorous state lies in this deceptively peaceful area, 100 miles north of Los Angeles. Also Try Reign in Hell or Primal Fear.

The Art of Deception   by Ridley Pearson
Bestselling author Pearson is back with a suspenseful Lou Boldt novel. Daphne Matthews has been brought in to investigate the death of a young woman who was pushed off a bridge. Boldt is following the trail of a murderer through Seattle's dangerous underworld. When the investigations suddenly point to the same person, the deception takes an artful turn. Also try Parallel Lies or Middle of Nowhere.

Deviant Ways   by Chris Mooney
A former FBI profiler whose life had been shattered by a psychopath's unspeakable crime, Jack Casey has started over as a detective in a posh coastal community outside Boston, but his new life is threatened by the arrival of the Sandman, a demented killer who stalks entire families and neighborhoods, who uses hidden cameras to track his crimes and his new adversary, Jack. Also try Remembering Sarah or World Without End.

Rage  by Jonathan Kellerman
Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age 21, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk – once again – with psychologist Alex Delaware. But when the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation is silenced forever. Also try Twisted or The Murder Book.

Mary, Mary   by James Patterson
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith. The authorities fear this is only the beginning. More killings follow, and more e-mails arrive immediately after. Also try London Bridges or 4th of July.

The Camel Club   by David Baldacci
It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable to its citizens. Also try Hour Game or Split Second.

Red Dragon   by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon was the world's first peek at the monstrously intelligent psychiatrist, in this story of a behavioral scientist's pursuit of a brutal serial killer who targets entire families during the full moon. The narrative alternates between agent Will Graham's investigations and the chillingly warped psyche of multiple murderer Francis Dolarhyde, with the imprisoned Lecter manipulating both men. Like the best of Deaver's reluctant detectives, Graham's unwanted ability to place himself in the mind of the killer at each grisly crime scene leads him to details that begin to add up to an identity; all the while, the relentless calendar puts him under a deadline to find either the killer or his next victims. Also try Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal.

Cross Bones   by Kathy Reichs
When an Orthodox Jewish man is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her it is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, and one that could lead to the rewriting of 2,000 years of religious history. As Tempe investigates, she learns that the stranger's picture shows bones uncovered during an archaeological dig. Also try Grave Secrets or Fatal Voyage.