Books like The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

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.

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 bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

In the dystopian land of Opium, a young clone of the powerful drug lord Matteo Alacrán must navigate life in the "Big House," uncover his origins, and decide his destiny amid a society that mistreats those who differ.

A 10‑year‑old boy named Max and his little sister live through the Nazi invasion of 1944 from a child’s perspective, illustrating survival, resistance, and the Holocaust’s impact on young Jewish families.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles follows Tess Durbeyfield, a rural woman from a poor family, as she confronts poverty, social injustice, and the rigid expectations of early 20th-century English society.

Thomas, a fourteen‑year‑old boy from a single‑parent family, enlists in the British Army during World War I to prove himself, support his brother, and win back his childhood love, Molly.

Nancy Springer's second Enola Holmes mystery follows the clever teenage detective as she pursues the disappearance of a left‑handed lady in Victorian London, confronting danger and intrigue along the way.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

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

A thrilling adventure novel set in Victorian London, exploring the world of painting and magic.

At the mercy of a storm, a grieving shoreline mortician and a wandering circus performer discover an unexpected bond that forces them to confront the secrets of their divided world, blending Scottish myth and modern loneliness with hope.

Norman Babcock, an eleven‑year‑old in a New England town steeped in witch lore, has the rare gift of hearing ghosts—only he can hear them. When a cursed witch’s tale turns real and the village is overrun by zombie pilgrims, Norman must use his psychic powers, a reluctant sidekick, and his sister’s help to save his town from supernatural danger.

When a covert terrorist group unleashes a weapon that triggers earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the nation spirals into violence and mass suicide. Agent Joe Ledger must stop the terror plot—aimed at igniting Yellowstone’s caldera—and expose the secret superpower behind it.

"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.

In Nazi-occupied Norway, Espen becomes a spy and a courier, rising through the ranks of the resistance.

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.

A young girl's bravery and determination in protecting a group of metal horses that have been left in her care during the occupation of the Netherlands by the German army during World War II.

Rowan Hood, the gentle healer of Sherwood Forest, rises from grief to seek vengeance against the men who murdered her mother. As she leaves her Rowan Grove, she must balance her desire for revenge with the healing life she has built.

Boy is captured and locked in a palace dungeon, where he schemes an escape from the cruel Maxim and the insane King Frederick while uncovering a chilling secret about his father.

Tessa returns to her Pennsylvania hometown after her father's death, where she must confront her fractured family and the secrets that led a serial killer to death row, while a new trial threatens to unravel her past.