Books like “Storm Front”

What to read after “Storm Front” by Jim Butcher: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Noir” and “Urban Fantasy”
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.
2
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2016
From the same world: “Noir” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Noir
- Urban Fantasy
In a Mexico City policed against vampires, street kid Domingo meets Atl, a descendant of Aztec blood drinkers running from a rival clan. He is drawn to her despite the danger, and together they try to leave the city before the vampires hunting her catch up.
3
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Peter Grant, a London police officer, discovers that magic is real when he interviews a ghost about a headless corpse. He is assigned to a small, secret unit of the Metropolitan Police that deals with supernatural crime, and takes on a case that stirs up the city's old spirits.
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Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuire · 2009
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Half-fae changeling October 'Toby' Daye wants nothing to do with Faerie after fourteen years away from it. When a fae noble is murdered and binds Toby with a dying curse to find the killer, she is pulled back into the dangerous politics of the local faerie court.
5
Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Forbidden Knowledge
MacKayla Lane travels to Ireland after her sister is murdered and finds she can see the fae, a power that makes her a target. To find the killer and stay alive she turns to Jericho Barrons, a secretive man whose help comes at a price and whose motives she cannot read.
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 1929
From the same world: “Noir”
- Noir
A woman walks into Sam Spade's San Francisco office with a story about a missing sister, and the case becomes a hunt for a jewel-encrusted black bird. Spade's partner is killed, and he must decide whom to trust among liars, thieves and double-crossers.
7
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
In a future Atlanta where magic and technology take turns ruling the streets, mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up supernatural problems for hire. When her guardian is murdered, she is drawn into a war between necromancers and a shapeshifter clan to find the killer.
8
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Clary Fray sees a murder no one else can, committed by three tattooed teenagers with strange weapons. When her mother vanishes, Clary is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors who protect humans from demons, and learns her own past is part of their hidden war.
9
Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
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The Rook
Daniel O'Malley · 2012
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
A woman wakes in a London park with no memory, surrounded by bodies, holding a letter from her former self. It explains that she is an officer in a secret agency guarding Britain from supernatural threats. To find the traitor who tried to kill her, she must live a stranger's life.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.