12 must-read thriller books like The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4) by Elizabeth Hand

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The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed crime writer Elizabeth Hand returns to her cult-favorite series: Photographer Cass Neary …

If you liked the thriller plot in The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4) by Elizabeth Hand , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

Cover of Choke Hold (Angel Dare #2) by Christa Faust

2. Choke Hold (Angel Dare #2)

By: Christa Faust

3.63

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

INSIDE THE WORLD OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS--AND MURDER... Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to es… read more

Similar categories in Christa Faust's Choke Hold (Angel Dare #2) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

3. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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4. An Apprentice to Elves (Iskryne World, #3)

By: Elizabeth Bear , Sarah Monette

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

"[Bear and Monette] have boldly created a fascinating world that begs further exploration."--Publis… read more

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5. The Cutting Room

By: Louise Welsh

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes across a collection of highly disturbing … read more

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6. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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7. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
Cover of Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) by T. Kingfisher

8. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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9. Hazardous Spirits

By: Anbara Salam

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hazardous Spirits brilliantly captures a young woman’s world unsettled by mediums and spirits, reve… read more

Similar categories in Anbara Salam's Hazardous Spirits book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Butcher book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Delphi by Clare Pollard

11. Delphi

By: Clare Pollard

3.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a proph… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pollard's Delphi book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We are so bored of our unreal lives it is a change, at least; it is history happening."

-Clare Pollard, Delphi

"Force our every interaction online so they can scrape it for data and sell predictions to shadowy forces of what we'll do before we know ourselves."

-Clare Pollard, Delphi

"In a globalized world, there are few purchases or gestures that do not - like the flicker of a butterfly's wings - negatively affect someone on earth. With almost every daily action I contribute to w…"

-Clare Pollard, Delphi

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12. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
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14. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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15. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Alternatives book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Room (Rabbits, #2) by Terry Miles

16. The Quiet Room (Rabbits, #2)

By: Terry Miles

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The lore and legends around the underground game known as Rabbits gain new dimensions in this twist… read more

Similar categories in Terry Miles's The Quiet Room (Rabbits, #2) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. West Heart Kill

By: Dann McDorman

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the West Heart country club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . thi… read more

Similar categories in Dann McDorman's West Heart Kill book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You're a private detective."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"People hunger for epiphany, you think, they clamor for it, but given a chance, who among us would actually recognize it? Or, having seen it, would choose to act?"

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

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18. Reluctant Immortals

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.54

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes … read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time. First it was her friends, the Texan …"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

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19. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's The Book of Love book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

Similar categories in Hari Kunzru's Blue Ruin book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller

21. The Curse of Pietro Houdini

By: Derek B. Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more

Similar categories in Derek B. Miller's The Curse of Pietro Houdini book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."

-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

Cover of My Own Lightning (Wolf Hollow #2) by Lauren Wolk

22. My Own Lightning (Wolf Hollow #2)

By: Lauren Wolk

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lauren Wolk returns to the world of Wolf Hollow, in this sequel to her beloved, … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Wolk's My Own Lightning (Wolf Hollow #2) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wayward (Wanderers, #2) by Chuck Wendig

23. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

By: Chuck Wendig

4.21

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Wayward (Wanderers, #2) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

24. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

By: Chanel Miller

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) by Christopher Buehlman

26. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

Cover of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

27. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pargin's I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

28. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

Similar categories in Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4) by Elizabeth Hand

29. The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed crime writer Elizabeth Hand returns to her cult-favorite series: Photographer Cass Neary … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) by Keith Rosson

30. The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2)

By: Keith Rosson

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

No one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call. But in this chilling sequel to Fe… read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Road Seven by Keith Rosson

31. Road Seven

By: Keith Rosson

4.05

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

2021 IPPY Award Bronze Medalist - Best Fantasy Novel Mark Sandoval—resolutely arrogant, covered … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Road Seven book and Elizabeth Hand's The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

28 Top fiction books like The Book of Lamps and Banners (Cass Neary, #4) by Elizabeth Hand

Transform Your Habits

Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Choke Hold (Angel Dare #2)

Christa Faust

3.63

Transform Your Habits

A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

Freya Marske

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Fever House (Fever House, #1)

Keith Rosson

4.03

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Vampire$

John Steakley

3.59

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

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