Looking for novels about cover-ups, alibi creation, or people trying to get away with a crime
Could you please help me finding a thriller/mystery novels where the core of the story is the cover-up of a crime rather than the investigation itself.
Books I loved with this kind of structure: Devotion of Suspect X , Malice by Keigo Higashino, Confessions by Kanae Minato, and The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson, Gone Girl, Out by natsuo.
What I’m especially interested in are stories where:
someone commits a crime (or accidentally causes one) the characters construct an alibi, manipulate evidence, or hide the body
the tension comes from whether the cover-up will hold
Less interested in:
standard detective procedurals
serial killer thrillers
More interested in:
clever alibi construction
ordinary people covering up a crime
psychological cat-and-mouse games
Would love suggestions, especially less obvious or lesser-known novels. Could you please help me?
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