Books like Into the shadows by Shirley Wells

Winter Makepeace, headmaster of St. Giles, leads a secret nocturnal life as the Ghost of St. Giles. When the ghost is rescued by the sharp‑witted Lady Isabel Beckinhall, their day‑time rivalry turns to passion, and danger looms with missing girls at the Home.

When Katie and her mother arrive in the small Texas town of Kluney, a string of menacing events sparks her suspicion of a hidden danger lurking in the shadows.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Set during a crusade, "Follow the Shadows" follows silver‑blonde Solange as she navigates a marriage of convenience, love, and betrayal.

After witnessing a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park, 12‑year‑old runaway Billy Straight must evade a serial killer while LAPD detective Petra Connor races to protect him and solve the mystery before the hunt ends in tragedy.

Detective Inspector Cass Jones wrestles with a chilling series of student suicides in London, while a posthumous letter from his dead brother reveals a childhood crime: the theft of his own son. A tense blend of police procedural, kidnapping, and supernatural intrigue.

Peter suspects his sister’s death was no suicide, and his investigation leads him into a complex mystery.

Seventh‑grade student Andy Bonner starts a family‑genealogy project and discovers the mystery of a distant relative accused of stealing the family fortune.

After a tragic fall, Louisa Ditton becomes a maid at Coldthistle House, where she must confront her emerging changeling abilities while battling the sinister Mr. Morningside and seeking redemption.

In Upstate New York, Detective Peter Decker confronts a murder that ties a young victim’s death to a decades‑old family crime, forcing him to unravel a tangled web of past sins and present danger.

After her family relocates to Philadelphia’s Society Hill in 1866, young Addy uncovers hidden dangers tied to the North Carolina plantation she escaped from two years earlier, while the story weaves in the broader experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction.

A chilling mystery tale of friendship and danger set among the elite of New York's social world.

Shadows follows Leah Cornish as she faces uncertain choices while entangled with Guy Hamilton in the neon-lit streets of Phoenix.

Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the place--not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily like her own. Yet Elsewhere harbors dark secrets--and Morton, an undersized boy with an outsize temper. As she and Morton form an uneasy alliance, Olive finds herself ensnared in a plan darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. It's up to Olive to save the house from the dark shadows, before the lights go out for good.

Eleven‑year‑old Olive and her parents move into a Victorian mansion, where mysterious paintings, a temperamental nine‑year‑old, and three talking cats reveal a dark plan that blurs magic, time and space.

Orphaned Marylee Simson returns to Burlington to uncover the truth about her vanished parents, but dangerous forces and a mysterious photographer keep her secrets hidden.