11 must-read mystery books like Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

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Small Favors

By: Erin A. Craig

4.03

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range--five narro…

"There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it."

-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

"There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it."

-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

"There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it."

-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

If you liked the mystery plot in Small Favors by Erin A. Craig , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Bone Houses

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveya… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Bone Houses book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
"There were some pains so old they were almost a comfort."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"Perhaps she could draw memories of him from these people like water from a well."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"Atop the barn's roof, a lone chicken sat watching as figures began to emerge from the forest."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know ho…"

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

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2. Small Favors

By: Erin A. Craig

4.03

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range--five narro… read more

Similar categories in Erin A. Craig's Small Favors book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
"There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it."

-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

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3. One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.30

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"You never said how you got away from him." I stiffened, the NIghtmare's wicked laugh resonating in the din. When I spoke, the low notes of my voice were slick, as if dipped in oil. "Perhaps it was he…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

"Tell them. Tell them the truth. When your children ask, do not lie- do not hide the risk of magic. Children are strongest when their eyes are clear. Only then can they make their own choices. Only th…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

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4. Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.44

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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5. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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6. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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7. Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

By: Adalyn Grace

4.00

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  All the Stars and Teeth  brings to life a highly romant… read more

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"Perhaps,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"Careful,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"But death did not need to be seen; he was to be felt."

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"With him, Signa no longer wanted to wonder. She wanted to know."

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

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8. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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9. Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

By: Adalyn Grace

4.16

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features an alternate jacket and a unique hardcover case and … read more

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Foxglove (Belladonna, #2) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"Look at me."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"You are mine."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"For as long as you’ll have me, you are mine, Signa Farrow. I will burn this world to cinders before I let anyone take you from me"

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"After all she’d overcome, boiling her choices down to Fate made her success feel unearned. Like he somehow had a hand in all her hardest decisions and her biggest triumphs."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

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10. The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

By: Holly Black

3.91

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.   … read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Some broken things stay broken"

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

"Pain is better than being dead."

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

"Would you consider actually marrying me?"

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

"Felicitations on the murder of your mother."

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

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11. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By: Roshani Chokshi

3.70

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship … read more

Similar categories in Roshani Chokshi's The Last Tale of the Flower Bride book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Whatever you have let me know of you, I have loved, and still love."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"We looked less like two distinct beings and more like a torn reflection."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"Look how I will carve myself to fit into your life. Who will not do less?"

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"I was left with everything and nothing. I was free and forever trapped. I was a multitude of blues."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

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12. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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13. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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14. A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

3.53

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

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15. Dark and Shallow Lies

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.95

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surfa… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's Dark and Shallow Lies book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"There's magic in you, Grey"

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"Seems like, every time I'm with Zale, I come away just a little bit healed."

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"Because even when the secrets we hide in our pockets aren't our own, the weight of them can still be enough to drown us"

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

"And I know for sure then that what I told Evie was true. Hart isn't in love with me. Not like Evie meant. Need isn't love. Loneliness isn't love. And pain isn't love. Even if it's shared."

-Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

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16. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

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17. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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18. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

By: Isabel Ibañez

3.90

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Ibañez's What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Is this it, Whit?"

-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

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19. The Unmaking of June Farrow

By: Adrienne Young

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance,… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

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20. A Far Wilder Magic

By: Allison Saft

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Half… read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Far Wilder Magic book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"How could Margaret ever think he'd lose himself to alchemy when he has already hopelessly lost himself to her?"

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

"Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive. Most days, that’s enough. Today, she doesn’t think it is."

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

"How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it?"

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

"If he can’t grieve his father or his impossible dreams without hurting his family or himself, what other choice does he have but to keep things light? To dazzle people so they can’t look for the crac…"

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

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21. House of Hollow

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.03

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's House of Hollow book and Erin A. Craig's Small Favors

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What if we were the monsters?"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She would bewitch everyone to make her lie the truth"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She moved through the world like no other woman I knew."

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"What you don't understand is that I am the thing in the dark"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

21 best-selling fiction books like Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

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Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

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Small Favors

Erin A. Craig

4.03

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One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

Rachel Gillig

4.30

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Rachel Gillig

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Rebecca Ross

4.05

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3.77

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3.78

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