Books like Calculated Risks by Seanan McGuire

Harry Dresden, a wizard-for‑hire, investigates a grisly double murder fueled by black magic in this first installment of the Dresden Files.

Gideon the Ninth follows a sword‑wielding necromancer who must team up with a bone‑witch to survive a deadly trial of wits and combat under an emperor’s watch in a sprawling sci‑fantasy universe.

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Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

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Two teenage twins, Jack and Jill, find themselves at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, where magic, mystery, and schoolyard drama await.

On the starship Dormire, clones of a murdered crew awaken in vats, each fearing the next bloodshed—but a new clone with no memory of her death must uncover the killer before another murder takes place.

In "Staked," 2,000‑year‑old Irish druid Atticus O'Sullivan faces a legion of vampires, including a former friend, in a fast‑paced, myth‑rich battle that takes him from New York to Rome.

Rachel Morgan, now a day‑walking demon, faces new threats while protecting the living vampires and preventing demonic catastrophe.

Durzo Blint, a master assassin, mentors Azoth, a street‑born survivor, as Azoth learns the perilous politics and dark magic of his world.

A father's obsession leads to a twisted plan to use his daughter's body to resurrect a deceased wife's spirit, threatening a village of elemental masters.

In an apocalyptic near‑future, a mother and her two small children navigate a river blindfolded to avoid a terrifying entity, while the story features profanity and graphic violence.

In the first book of The Healer series, Avry of Kazan, who can absorb wounds and illnesses, is hunted for spreading plague. Captured by a band of rogues, she must decide whether to heal a plague‑stricken prince she blames for her family’s death.

Seanan McGuire’s eerie, restrained tale follows Toby, who realizes her memories and the truth of her past are far stranger than she imagined.

A leopard man and a woman torn between the old ways of the jungle and the modern world.

In the heart of Colorado's urban landscape, Lex and her partner investigate the mysterious disappearance of two vampires on a full‑moon night, uncovering a tangled web of magic, werewolf intrigue, and witchcraft.

"FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story ... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those afflicted with a single uncontrollable impulse: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons, surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows."-- In 2014 we cured cancer, beat the common cold-- and unleashed an infection that unleashed an uncontrollable impulse to feed. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons. Surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows, they hit the presidential campaign trail to uncover dangerous truths... or die trying.