A crime reporter becomes personally entangled when a close relative's death points to a pattern of murders; he pursues leads that connect newsroom sleuthing to federal investigations.

A professional intelligence agent confronts remnants of Nazi networks in postwar Germany while operating alone under pressure. The plot orients around investigatory fieldwork, covert contacts, and the moral and operational dilemmas that arise when pursuing hidden enemies in a tense European setting.

A careful-minded man becomes entangled when a neighbor's emergency draws him into a clandestine act; the novel sets a moral and intellectual test between loyalty and law.

Set in Laos in the 1970s, an elderly physician with little formal forensic experience is appointed state coroner. He confronts suspicious deaths amid political upheaval and scarce institutional support, and must piece together causes and motives while navigating party politics and local customs.

A pragmatic private investigator in India is drawn into a case when a household servant disappears; the investigation unfolds through interviews, local social detail, and procedural clue-gathering.

A seasoned Dublin detective and his partner investigate the murder of a twelve-year-old girl while unresolved events from the lead detective’s own childhood—disappearances in nearby woods decades earlier—complicate his judgment and the case.

A 15-year-old math-minded narrator who describes his world through exact observations decides to investigate the mystery of a neighbor's dead dog. The investigatory quest exposes family tensions and forces the narrator to navigate social rules and sources of fear while trying to hold to his own systems of logic.

A professionally curious narrator pursues the life of a shadowy criminal figure across interwar European settings, following clues from travel and chance encounters to reconstruct motive and method.

A mid-20th-century espionage thriller centered on an intelligence investigator drawn into a baffling missing-persons and brainwashing case. The plot pressure comes from unraveling institutional secrecy and technical clues inside an atmosphere of Cold War suspicion.

A CIA agent who works for a clandestine black-ops unit must navigate secrecy, betrayal, and professional danger as events force him to confront the consequences of undercover work.

Set in a near-future Orange County, the novel follows an undercover narcotics agent embedded in a household of drug users while concealing his identity from both the police and his targets.

A coded plea from deep inside frozen Russia summons a linguistically gifted outsider to infiltrate a secret research installation.