Books like The drowned detective by Neil Jordan

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 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.

When novelist Owen Quine disappears, private detective Cormoran Strike is hired to find him, only to uncover a deadly plot tied to Quine’s controversial manuscript that could destroy many lives.

On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton learns he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to gather six mystical Signs to defeat the Dark forces.

When the first snow falls in Oslo, a missing‑mothers investigation leads Inspector Harry Hole into a deadly serial‑killer game that threatens to unhinge him.

After her husband dies, newly widowed Elsie moves to her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, only to find a mysterious painted figure that eerily mirrors her, stirring unsettling fears that threaten her fragile new life.

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.

Unwilling detective Easy Rawlins is drawn into a tangled mystery when his friend’s daughter turns up seeking help; a search for a missing Vietnam veteran intersects family drama, betrayal, and danger on L.A.’s streets.

In the Inland Empire of California, Phoebe enlists an enigmatic loner to locate a missing daughter, uncovering a tangled web of private investigation and rival outcasts.

Lily, a bored summer neighbor in Atlantic City, stumbles on a ghostly legend when she enlists a con‑artist to guide her through the city’s haunted spots, only to discover that the "Drowned Boy" is a revenant who will reclaim her life each summer.

Meet Tommy Akhtar, Ugandan Asian cricket fan, devoted son, and not very successful private investigator with offices over his brother Gundappa's mini-cab firm in deepest West London.He's just woken up from his hangover (combing the parting on his toungue) when his next case comes through the door. It looks like just another investigation when hooker Melody comes into his office asking him to find her co-worker, Natasha, last seen meeting new client at a bar in Shepherd's Market.But as the search for Natasha intensifies, Tommy's world becomes increasingly sinister. He is drawn into a murder investigation, the criminal underworld, the world of fundamentalist religion and maybe even terrorist activities. Neate brilliantly explores the oddball underbelly and wierd cultural mix of London - The City of Tiny Lights - today and questions just what it really means to be British now.....

A tense police procedural set in Sweden, where a writer’s life is threatened and a friend goes missing.

A gripping Swedish‑Danish thriller where a missing justice minister and a murdered Danish TV star set off a race to solve a conspiracy that ties crime, missing persons and body‑part killings.