Books like The Shadow of the Wind
If you liked The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Mexican Gothic
Because shares tags: gothic, historical fiction, mystery.
In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the…
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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 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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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: gothic, 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 Bad Beginning
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune.
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Rebecca
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery.
A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery.
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 Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Because shares tags: historical fiction, mystery.
Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo explained: the seven marriages, old Hollywood, Celia and John, and the twist in…
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Because shares tag: mystery.
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
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War and Peace
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
