Books like Plum Island

A brisk cat-and-mouse thriller that opens with a shocking murder and rockets Reacher into a widening conspiracy.

A fast, wisecracking Jersey caper narrated by an underqualified bounty hunter whose banter with her fugitive ex crackles louder than the mystery.

A brisk amateur-investigation thriller following Alan Yorke as he probes a friend's fatal fall, driven by disappearing evidence and mounting danger in the world of horse racing.

A hitman-with-a-code thriller that slows down to become a love letter to small-town life before the last job goes sideways.

A twisty, high-stakes continuation of the Millennium series pitting Salander against her twin sister while Blomkvist chases a conspiracy through Stockholm's underworld and halls of power.

A taut international military thriller following dual investigators on a high-stakes hunt across hostile terrain, balancing procedural rigor with DeMille's signature wry distance from institutional power.

A close mystery relative — matched on how it reads, with quick, propulsive pacing.

A grief-soaked man gets a message that upends eight years of mourning and hurtles him into a manhunt where he's both quarry and detective.

A globe-trotting geopolitical thriller that opens on catastrophe and never lets up — Bangkok bombings, a rogue insider, and a Chinese plot for a strategic land grab, all chased down through short, cross-cutting chapters.

A countdown-clock espionage thriller peopled by washed-up intelligence rejects, where a live-streamed beheading threat forces a disgraced analyst to redeem himself amid competing agendas.

Another road into dark humor, taken at quick, propulsive pacing.