Books like The book of shadows by C. L. Grace

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

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.

A modern coming‑of‑age fantasy that follows Quentin Coldwater as he discovers a secret college of magic and the darker truth behind his beloved fictional world, Fillory.

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 tale of witches, neurosurgeons, and secrets in New Orleans, exploring the power of the past and the present.

Miss Marple unravels a mystery in London's stylish Bertram's Hotel, where polished decor hides a dangerous plot.

In the second book of the Dark Artifices trilogy, Emma Carstairs and her parabatai partner Julia Blackthorn navigate forbidden love, Faerie politics, and a looming threat from the Unseelie King as they seek the powerful Black Volume of the Dead.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes navigate peril and intrigue in the bazaars of 1918 Jerusalem, facing murderous foes while uncovering a web of political and ethnic tension.

After a dangerous vampire attack, 17‑year‑old Tana enters Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city, accompanied by her ex‑boyfriend and a mysterious vampire.

Evie O'Neill discovers she has supernatural abilities while navigating the seedy underworld of 1920s New York City.

Mary Russell, a detective and associate of Sherlock Holmes, investigates the murder of an archaeologist after he returns to England with a controversial letter claiming to be from an apostle of Christ.

Sierra Santiago discovers that the murals in her Brooklyn neighborhood are alive, revealing her family’s secret as shadowshapers—and she must confront an evil anthropologist to protect her loved ones.

Set during a crusade, "Follow the Shadows" follows silver‑blonde Solange as she navigates a marriage of convenience, love, and betrayal.

A group of proper English women solve murder cases, much like the 'Whodunnit' style of the 'Charlotte McLeod' books.

It is an hour of desperate need for St. Frideswide's. Thrust into financial ruin by the incompetence and corruption of their former prioress, the nuns have become trapped under the thumb of Abbott Gilberd as he pries into every possible corner of the priory's life. In an effort to escape their desperate straits, Dame Frevisse is forced to journey to London in order to seek both a new prioress and financial aid for her beleaguered sisters. Once there, she turns to her wealthy cousin Alice, lady wife of the influential earl of Suffolk. But with a new Parliament warming to its arguments, Frevisse discovers that Alice's need may be even greater than her own. Caught between the powerful Gloucester, the machiavellian Bishop Beaufort, and the darkly handsome Duke of Orleans, Alice is torn by the broken loyalties of those she loves the most. Before she can unravel the twisted turns of romance and deception, Frevisse herself is caught up in the intrigue, carrying secret messages which will determine England's future. But the mystery deepens when one of the other messengers is killed, and Frevisse must solve the murder in order to save not only herself, but Alice's immortal soul. Sister Frevisse - Book 08

Dame Frevisse, a nun, leaves her cloister to chase her outlaw cousin Nicholas up the King's Highway, confronting the law, her vows, and a deadly manor where faith and greed collide.

In 1472, Kathryn is appointed by the Archbishop to investigate the beatification of Roger Atworth, a friar and the confessor of Dame Cecily of York, King Edward's mother. Hathryn finds that the good friar's death was not a miracle but murder.