Books like Mexican Gothic
If you liked Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: gothic, horror, mystery.
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Shadow of the Wind
Because shares tags: mystery, historical fiction, gothic.
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery, horror.
Jacob Portman finds his grandfather dead in the woods, follows a cryptic letter to a ruined orphanage in Wales, and meets children living…
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The Outsider
Because shares tags: horror, mystery.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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The Only One Left
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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The Name of the Rose
Because shares tags: mystery, historical fiction.
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Because shares tags: mystery, horror.
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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The Green Mile
Because shares tags: horror, mystery.
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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Hidden Pictures
Because shares tags: horror, mystery.
Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.
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The Lost Apothecary
Because shares tags: historical fiction, mystery.
A hidden 1791 apothecary poisons cruel men, and two centuries later an historian uncovers her trail.
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Because shares tags: historical fiction, horror.
Born with a perfect nose in 1738 Paris, Grenouille masters perfume craft then murders young women in Grasse to bottle the ultimate scent.











