15 Underrated Mystery and Thriller Novels That (Warning!) Will Make It Hard to Sleep Tonight

Mali Anderson is a former NYPD officer, who left with a lawsuit and a lot of bitterness in Grace F. Edwards's novel, If I Should Die. She decides to get her master's in sociology while living with her jazz musician father and taking care of her orphaned nephew, Alvin. But when she walks past the stylish town houses in Harlem's Strivers Row, she hears a child's panicked screams and stops a child from being abducted. A car drives away, leaving her friend, Erskin Harding, dead in the street. She decides to track down the killer, leading her to violent situations that have her fearing for her life.