If you were gripped by Jack Caffery piecing together the Birdman’s taunting signatures from those bodies dumped near the Thames, you’ll love how Harry Hole chases a murderer who leaves chilling snowmen as markers. Like Birdman, The Snowman leans into meticulous forensic breadcrumbs, ominous notes, and a race-against-time investigation that tightens with every victim.

What made Birdman unforgettable wasn’t just the case—it was living inside both the predator’s head and Caffery’s, haunted by his brother Ewan and his fixation on neighbor Penderecki. Red Dragon matches that dual immersion: you follow profiler Will Graham while also inhabiting Francis Dolarhyde’s warped logic, with Hannibal Lecter’s manipulations raising the psychological stakes.

If the visceral bleakness of Birdman — from the fetid warehouse crime scene to Caffery’s obsession rotting just under the surface — hooked you, Pig Island delivers that same pitch-black mood. Hayder pushes into the shadows again, marrying sordid rumor with stomach-dropping revelations, and sustaining that nerve-fraying dread you felt as Caffery closed in on the Birdman.

If the autopsy-room intensity of Birdman stuck with you—the lingering body-horror, the meticulous clues teased from mutilation—The Surgeon goes all-in. Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a killer whose medical precision mirrors the Birdman’s calculated cruelty, and the case’s forensic grit will scratch that same itch for harrowing, clinical detail.

Like the way Birdman lets you slip between Caffery’s pursuit and the predator’s lair, The Killing Lessons plays the same nerve-jangling game. You track Detective Valerie Hart while also inhabiting the killers and a surviving witness, a structure that builds the taut, cross-cut dread you felt whenever Birdman cut from the investigation to the monster at work.