Books like The curse of Jacob Tracy by Holly Messinger

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

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 Regency era, England’s Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers selects a disreputable freed slave as its Sorcerer Royal, and the nation’s magic begins to wane. When Zacharias Wythe ventures to Fairyland, he meets a powerful woman who may change Britain's sorcery forever.

Clara vanishes at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping leads the trio from London to a trap set by a witch.

A Puritan woman disappears in colonial New England’s woods and must confront the supernatural horrors feared by her community.

Twelve-year-old Theo uses her arcane knowledge and special talent to protect an artifact from two secret societies at a London museum.

A historic mystery unfolds as the vanished crew of the Mary Celeste intertwines with Arthur Conan Doyle’s nascent fame, a Philadelphia spiritualist, and an investigative journalist in late‑nineteenth‑century literary society.

When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton & Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired--money, a chauffeur-driven limo, and a stunning home in a high-rise. Then Milton assigns Kevin one of the most notorious cases of the year, with a file that had been put together prior to the crime. Throwing himself into his work, Kevin begins to see a pattern of evil emerging from behind the firm's plush facade. Acquittal after acquittal, every criminal client walks free, and Kevin's suspicions slowly give way to terror. For Kevin has just become The Devil's Advocate.

In 1867, governess Eliza Caine arrives at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk, where a hidden past and unseen forces threaten her, the children, and the house itself.

Emma Davis, a rising New York artist, returns to the reopened Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to uncover the truth behind her friends' disappearance, confronting hidden secrets and dangerous threats that may exact a deadly cost for closure.

"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.

316 pages : 21 cm

In 20th‑century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse snuffs out a wealthy family’s brightest hope when a bride disappears, and her brother’s quest leads him into the city’s darkest underbelly and its most outspoken figures.

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.