Books like Keep the midnight out by Alex Gray

In Matt Haig’s Midnight Library, Nora Seed explores an infinite library in which every book records a life she could have lived, challenging her to confront regret, choice, and the meaning of a fulfilled existence.

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize‑winning novel, intertwines India’s journey from colonial rule to independence with the personal saga of Saleem Sinai in a tale of historical myth and magical realism.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

During a Christmas gathering at Lexham Manor, the wealthy Nathaniel Herriard is found dead, and six guests become suspects. Scotland Yard inspector Hemingway must untangle inheritance motives and a locked‑room mystery to identify the killer.

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she's gained. When a new danger appears, Adelina's forced to revisit old wounds, putting not only herself at risk, but every Elite. In order to preserve her empire, Adelina and her Roses must join the Daggers on a perilous quest -- though this uneasy alliance may prove to be the real danger."--provided by publisher.

In the early 1980s, Belfast police officer Sean Duffy is recruited by MI5 to hunt IRA bomber Dermot McCann after he escapes from Maze Prison. Alongside a locked‑room mystery, the clock ticks toward Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn must discover which mysterious passenger aboard the Zodiac cruise is the serial killer known as Jampot before the five days of the voyage end, with the stakes reaching his own wife.

Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms, safes and private apartments. After the auction-and a chance encounter with crime boss Chib Calloway-Robert and Allan suggest the "liberation" of several paintings from the National Gallery, hoping Mike will dissuade them. Instead, he hopes they are serious.As enterprising girlfriends, clever detectives, seductive auctioneers and a Hell's Angel named Hate enter the picture, Ian Rankin creates a highly-charged thriller, a faced-past story of second guesses and double crosses that keep changing the picture, right until the harrowing finish.

A detective solves a series of crimes in Braikie, a Highland town hit hard by the recession.

During a Shetland winter flood, Jimmy Perez discovers a body and becomes obsessed with uncovering the victim’s identity and death.

In the Shetland Isles, inspector Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves investigate the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of friend Eleanor, whose obsession with a local ghost may hide a decades‑old secret worth killing for.

Alex McKnight, a private investigator, returns to Detroit to face a haunting shooting that killed his partner, following a new clue that may exonerate the convicted killer.

A private detective, former police sergeant, hunts a missing inspector while confronting unlikely allies in a London mystery.

On a secluded Swedish island, a vanished family reappears with their one‑year‑old daughter. Detectives Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck unravel a long‑resolute mystery when a fresh arson and buried evidence force the past back into daylight.