Suspense, mystery, action thriller, true crime

Try these books if you're looking for:

• suspense
• mystery
• action thriller
• true crime
• read like Mary Higgins Clark and Harlan Coben

New York Dead 
By Stuart Woods
MYST WOODS Stone Ba #1
On disability leave from the New York City Police Department, Detective Sergeant Stone Barrington witnesses the murder of network news star Sasha Nijinsky, who is pushed from her penthouse terrace.

The Monkey’s Raincoat 
By Robert Crais
MYST CRAIS Elvis #1
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's underworld.

The Tiger in the Smoke 
By Margery Allingham
MYST ALLINGHA
A jail breaker and knife artist is at large in London and it falls to Albert Campion to hunt him down -- classic British crime writing at its best.

The Face of Deception 
By Iris Johansen
MYST JOHANSEN Eve Duncan #1
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is persuaded by billionaire magnate John Logan to reconstruct the face of an adult murder victim. It turns out to be a very dangerous job yet as she is left in a specially equipped lab in rural Virginia. Surveillance cameras are everywyhere, the phones are tapped and Logan himself acts at once--ruthless, charming and desperate.

A Cool Breeze on the Underground 
By Dan Winslow
MYST WINSLOW Nea Car #1
Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook, from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room.

If you like Robert Crais and Stuart Woods, they both have good stand alone novels: Palindrome by Stuart Woods and Demolition Angel by Robert Crais. You may also enjoy Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman, whose style is close to Mary Higgins Clark. For a couple of good true crime novels, you may want to try The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton and The Devil in the White City by Erika Larson.

Mary Higgins Clark Read-alike Suggestions

Try these books if you are looking for:

• Read-alikes for Mary Higgins Clark
• Compelling Mysteries without strong language, violence or graphics scenes
• Mysteries written by women

The Deep End
By Joy Fielding
MYSTERY FIELDING
When Joanne’s husband walks out of her life, she thinks she will never again feel more lost and vulnerable until she finds herself stalked by an unseen killer with no one to turn to for help.

Shattered Silk
By Barbara Michaels
F MICHAELS
Recovering from the demise of her unhappy marriage and opening the antique-clothing store of her dreams in Georgetown, Karen is suddenly confronted with a series of ominous and deadly events that threaten to turn her dream into a nightmare.

The Face of Deception
By Iris Johansen
MYSTERY JOHANSEN
Although clearly more romantic than Clark’s novels, Iris Johansen’s suspenseful stories of Eve Duncan, forensic sculptor, may also please Mary Higgins Clark fans. Haunted by her own child’s murder, Duncan seeks to help crime solvers by creating faces from unidentified skulls.

Summer of Storms
By Judith Kelman
MYSTERY KELMAN
Photojournalist Anna Jameson becomes involved in the investigation of her sister’s unsolved murder 30 years earlier, as the killer strikes again.

Woman Without a Past
By Phyllis Whitney
MYSTERY WHITNEY
When mystery novelist Molly Hunt is stunned to learn that she is actually the daughter of the aristocratic Mountfort family, she travels to Charleston to unlock the secret of her past.