Books like Spell booked by Joyce Lavene

A historian uncovers an alchemical manuscript that awakens a hidden world of witches, vampires, and daemons in Oxford, compelling her to confront long‑held fears and a forbidden romance.

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

An orphan named Lewis Barnavelt discovers that his new home is a magical mansion guarded by a hidden timepiece that could end the world, and only a family secret can stop it.

In North Carolina’s sleepy town of Bascom, the Waverley sisters guard a mystical apple tree that shapes their destinies. When the estranged sister returns with a daughter, family secrets, culinary magic, and ancestral gifts force the trio to confront their shared legacy and find home again.

Elizabeth Tucker opens her bakery and falls in love with a mysterious protector while trying to stop a villain who wants to steal valuable relics tied to the seven deadly sins.

At Donut Hearts, the donut shop owner, Suzanne Hart, enjoys the layer of snow covering the streets of April Springs, North Carolina, in time for the area's Winter Carnival. Her good feelings plummet when the ex-girlfriend of her ex-husband, Max, gets "iced".

As the mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae is playing host to 20 North Carolina elected officials attending her first Mayors' Conference Weekend at the Blue Whale Inn. When the body of Mayor Sandi Foxx is discovered the morning after a severe storm, Dae receives a vision through the mayor's ring--that there's a killer among the guests who's as deadly as any hurricane.

A deliciously puzzling murder mystery set in a donut shop, where the culprit's donut turns out to be the killer.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Two sisters in a Massachusetts town blamed for centuries are drawn back together by the power of their family and the mysterious magic that permeates their lives.

When a bullied boy seeks a carnival mystic’s power, his wish returns with dangerous strength, turning his new abilities into chaos and forcing him to confront the cost of unchecked power.

When archwizards convene in a merchant's mansion to claim the legendary Lost Spell, they are besieged by a ferocious spellstorm and hunted by the enigmatic Elminster, whose motives are as hidden as his true identity.

A crime‑mystery novel where a private investigator in North Carolina tackles murders linked to a local coffee shop and doughnut shop, featuring the character Suzanne Hart.