Books like Things half in shadow by Alan Finn

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

A young scholar uncovers a labyrinthine family legacy, tracing the truth of Vlad the Impaler and the myth of Dracula across centuries and borders, risking life and sanity to confront an ancient evil.

After restoring a historic Florida mansion, Sarah McKinley discovers buried bodies and a vengeful spirit. With private investigator Caleb Anderson, she hunts the house’s dark past and a killer that may transcend time.

Eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce must unravel a mysterious death that leads to family secrets tied to Winston Churchill, using her scientific mind and a beloved plane to uncover the truth.

A mystery thriller that blends police investigation, supernatural elements, and romance.

Sheriff Miranda Knight of Gladstone, Tennessee must confront her past and collaborate with FBI profiler Noah Bishop to hunt a serial killer who terrorizes her town and preys on her sister.

Seventeen‑year‑old Evelyn Fallow, disfigured by a match‑factory accident, becomes a maid to Joseph Merrick in 1888 London, but when Jack the Ripper murders begin, she and Merrick are haunted by the victims’ ghosts and must unravel Jack’s identity.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

It’s a holiday mystery set in London: Ebenezer Scrooge, convinced of his own rationality, is warned by a ghost that three deaths—including his own—are imminent unless he unravels a complex conspiracy.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.