Books like 'Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 2'
Readers who enjoyed Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 2 by Matthew Sturges, Dave Justus, Stephen Sadowski, Shawn McManus, Travis Moore, Eric Nguyen, Lee Loughridge, Sal Cipriano & Chrissie Zullo also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Hex Files: Wicked Twist of Fate by Gina LaManna
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to Wicked, the paranormal sixth borough of New York.The end is near. Detective Danielle DeMarco is challenged with her most intense case yet, and along with it, she inherits a host of personal problems. When a sorcerer is found dead in The Emporium, a spell shop brimming with magical potions, elixirs, and tinctures, Dani and her new tagalong, Primrose, are on the case... -
Salty Dog by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAbductions rarely go as planned…but this is just ridiculous. Torn from the Faeling Games on the beaches of Scotland, Quinn MacKenna suddenly finds herself doggie-paddling in a turbulent sea of blood with no land in sight.And that’s the highlight of her day so far, because her abductors seem perfectly content to simply leave her in this strange Otherworld... -
Witch Is How The Biscuits Disappeared by Adele Abbott
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou can lead a horse to water...Truth can be stranger than fiction. Never has that been more true for Jill Maxwell. Meanwhile, a close relative makes a shocking discovery. ...away from your custard creams... -
Magic & Mercy by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWelcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. Ember Rose has her work cut out for her when a butler is murdered at the annual Estate Manager Conference. The former New Jersey resident and descendant of the One True Witch must keep Aunt Hyacinth from marching on the war path in defense of Simon, her butler and right hand... -
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Witch is How To Lose Big by Adele Abbott
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo custard creams… A man has gone missing from a hotel, and Jill is on the case. Meanwhile, what has happened to the ghost's jewellery, and what is in the trinket box? …are not as good as five... -
The Case of the Voice Spell by Amorette Anderson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGobins visiting in the middle of the night. A spell that seems impossible to do. A dead body in the creek... -
Witch Is Why The Laughter Stopped by Adele Abbott
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsToo many cooks… Blood is thicker than water. But whose blood? And who is the stranger at Jill’s door? …are after my custard creams... -
Relatively Familiar by Belinda White
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man is innocent until proven guilty. Why isn't that true for witches and their familiars too? Arc kept his end of our bargain and helped me with my family's problem. Now it was time to return the favor.He's been on the run ever since waking up next to his dead on again/off again girlfriend. He swears he didn't kill her. I believe him.He also says she wasn't in his bed when he went to sleep... -
Hookah by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Plague Scarier than Death Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much. A Cure Larger than Life The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar's darker pasts... -
Wisteria Wonders by Angela Pepper
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJust when Zara Riddle thought she was handling the whole witch-librarian thing, her friend got zapped into a flamingo. Yes, the pink-feathered kind. Her library coworker Frank Wonder is now four and a half feet tall, and none too happy about it! The Department of Water and Magic gets involved, but now they want Zara to channel a missing spirit... -
Grave Beginnings by R.R. Virdi
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden FilesAnother day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying... -
Sleeping with the Fishes by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a body washes up on the shores of Willow Bay, Jason and Angela find themselves as the main suspects. After all, they did have a confrontation with the victim just the night before. Deciding that she's not going to sit around and wait to be arrested, Angela decides to take matters into her own hands and investigate the death herself... -
Wuthering Homicides by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith The Others gone, Alice is looking forward to a little bit of peace in Sapphire Village. But when visitors start showing up dead, she knows it's not to be. The town's reputation is on the line, and Alice will do anything to help this new place she calls home... -
Brewing the Midnight Oil by Constance Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Stolen Tiara that Kills Its OwnerWhen Everette is tasked with an unusual case, who does he call...Ivy. His client has many artifacts, including an ancient tiara. When it's time to display the items at the annual museum festivities, the client discovers it missing. His new young wife has eyed the jeweled crown for a few years...maybe she's ready to leave the old fart and skate off with the goods... -
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A Storm is Brewing by Constance Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Haunted Fixer Upper Claims a VictimThe Home Channel has a new series, Flipping Haunted Houses. But one house didn't appreciate having its secrets exposed and offers up one dead body. The police rule it natural causes, but how does a young woman die of a heart attack, unless she was frightened to death... -
Jolly Jinxes by J.L. Collins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime for some fun under the North Pole sun!Star Clearwater has everything she's always wanted. Her business is soaring, her relationship with her mother is on the mend, and she and her cute, bookish boyfriend Everett are gearing up to attend the big Summer Solstice celebration that promises to be a party like no other... -
Wickedly Ever After by Tegan Maher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEver wonder where fairy tales are born? From divine reality, of course!It's Halloween, witch Destiny Maganti's favorite holiday. Every year, she heads up the Enchanted Coast costume party, but this year, she's been invited to the Angel's Ball, a luxury affair that no mortal has ever attended... -
The Elf Beside Himself by K.M. Avery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNothing can prepare you for the phone call from your best friend telling you his dad was murdered. Not even if you’re a former homicide cop.But here I am, getting on a plane to fly halfway across the country to hold his hand and hope to hell that I’m not walking into a complete disaster... -
Death Match by Annabel Chase, A. Blythe
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlternate cover for this ASIN can be found here. Losing the games can mean losing your life... Alyse Winters, former covert supernatural agent, is laying low while she investigates who muzzled her magic and why. Faced with upsetting news about her handler and Ghuls behaving strangely, Alyse has her work cut out for her... -
A Wild Ghost Chase by Elle Adams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Hawkwood Hollow, where the dead outnumber the living.Maura left her paranormal life behind years ago. Her ghost-hunting gift has given her nothing but trouble, and she's decided she's better off living outside of the magical world with her trusty sidekick, Mart... -
Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhy sell your soul when you can rent it? Mark Vedis is an average cop. Average for a mage in the Paranormal Police Department (PPD), anyway. After years of doing the jobs nobody else wanted, his career, and life, seemed to be on hold... -
Two Peas in a Potion by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStarting a new job - or a new life - is never easy. Tina White, the new resident witch in Western Woods, is just starting to settle into a routine when it's all blown right to bits. Sara, her roommate, has finally gotten a job. But when her new boss literally dies on her, Sara is petrified that she's not only going to lose her job, but that she's going to end up in jail... -
The Forgotten Mountain by Heather Lyons
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter years spent in Wonderland, Alice Reeve learned the impossible was quite possible after all. She thought she left such fantastical realities behind when she finally returned to England. Now Alice has become a member of the clandestine Collectors’ Society, and the impossible has found her again in the form of an elusive villain set on erasing entire worlds... -
The Book Of Ill Deeds by Phaedra Weldon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGinger Blackstone had been looking for a change in her life. Getting a call from her home town’s Sheriff with the message, “We’ve arrested your grandmother for murder,” wasn’t it.Three bodies later and Ginger finds herself, and the hot new small-town doctor, up to their broomsticks in trouble... -
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Shadow Land by Adam J. Wright
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a child goes missing, his mother asks me to help. After all, she believes he was taken by a monster and that’s my field of expertise. The search leads to the storm drains of Dearmont; not a good place to be when you’ve seen as many horror movies as I have. Turns out the monstrous kidnapper is also responsible for the mysterious disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric hospital nearby... -
Frozen Rage by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsRealm of Dreich is a getaway for the rich and powerful, a medieval-inspired town in the middle of a vast frozen wilderness. Now it’s the site of a wedding, intended to join two feuding families who have spent centuries in an uneasy truce with each other...Categorized as:
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Peony Dreadful by Nancy Warren
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWitches, Murder and Flowers make quite the bouquetPeony Bellefleur runs Bewitching Blooms, the charming flower shop in a picture-perfect Cotswold village in England. Her flowers seem to make the sick improve, wedding days happier, and birthdays more special because she infuses her bouquets with a little magic.Peony’s a witch in a village that seems too perfect to be true. Probably because it is... -
Pit Perfect Murder by Renee George
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPit Perfect is a tale of mystery and suspense that will have you on the edge of your seat... -
A Sprinkle of Sorcery by Michelle Harrison
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis sequel to A Pinch of Magic is another spellbinding sisterly adventure, this time with a haunted shipwreck, a fierce pirate, and, of course, a little magic! The family curse has been lifted, and the Widdershins sisters—Betty, Fliss, and Charlie—are free to leave the misty prison isle of Crowstone... -
Witch out of Luck by Elle Adams
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsBlair Wilkes faces her toughest challenge yet: meeting her boyfriend Nathan's family. That means being on her best 'normal' behaviour -- no weirdness, no magic, and definitely no unexpected appearances from her unpredictable cat, Sky. Blair's life is never that simple. A student's mysterious death by drowning casts a shadow over the town's annual summer broom flight contest... -
(Un)wise by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe dreams start, and Bethi’s very normal life goes down the toilet. She soon realizes the dreams are actually memories from past lives…and not just hers. She sees the lives of other women like her. The recalled memories follow the same terrifying pattern: Dog-men chase her, and she sees her eventual tormented death. Learning from the past, Bethi sets out to find a way to live this time around...Categorized as:
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Love's Goddess (Poppy's Potions, #3) by H.P. Mallory, J.R. Rain
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRoses are red,violets are blue,demons are dangerous,but love is too.It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so love should be in the air, right?Except it’s not—by a long-shot... -
Witching for the Best by Samantha Silver, Evelynne Page
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe tide's about to turn in Moonlight Cove...When a body is found out at sea in Moonlight Cove, local B&B owner Artemis Mani is called out to help - after all, she has the power to control the tides... -
Pride and Premeditation by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPride comes before the fall... When one of Alice's best customers at the bookshop is murdered, she swears she's going to get to the bottom of it... -
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Barbed Wire Heart by Alexes Razevich
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPsychic and empath Oona Goodlight has had more than enough of the dark side of magic. She wants nothing more than to dust her hands clean of all things born in the gloom and go back to a quiet life in her oceanfront cottage. If only the supernatural would leaver her alone... -
Hummingbird by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe best way to live in the Mage ruled city of Glasgow is to keep your head down and your mouth closed.That’s not usually a problem for Mairi Wallace. By day she works at a small shop selling tartan and by night she studies to become an apothecary. She knows her place and her limitations... -
Tracy the Fire Witch by P.G. Allison, Summer Morton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTracy the Fire Witch: Book I When a nightclub in Munich is bombed by terrorists just days before Tracy starts her spring break vacation from West Point, the U.S. government's special task force asks her to join the team they're sending to Germany. They're hoping to stir up those terrorists and make them scramble. The team already has one witch plus a couple of werewolves... -
The Lost Codex by Heather Lyons
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAllies, once inseparable, splinter until they break apart.An insidiousness carves its way through Wonderland, challenging the land’s very existence.Battle lines will be drawn as pages, long languishing in darkness, are finally illuminated.Swords will clash, blood will be spilled, and lives will be lost.For what is written can still be erased... -
Lipstick on a Pig by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWillow Bay's Summer Festival was supposed to mean fun... not murder! The annual summer festival has come to Willow Bay, and for Angela, that means being in charge of the petting zoo... -
Calm Before the Witch Storm by Constance Barker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Nann (that's with 2 nn's please) moves to her late Aunt Nancy's home in Calamity Corners, she wonders why there's a little pig running amok with a toilet seat in its mouth. But that's the least of her worries. She has a bookstore to open. Cemetery Center doesn't sound like an up and coming place to open a new business, but the square footage is huge and the rent is right... -
Shadowed Flame by R.J. Blain
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMatia Evans has it all, except for one thing: she can’t see color. With an adopted family who loves her, a company she helps her father run, and more prospects than she knows what to do with, she’s in no place to complain that her world is limited to shades of gray, black, and white... -
Murder on the Oregon Express by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's not exactly Alice's typical morning commute... When Alice Calliope finds herself on the newly re-opened Oregon Express train at the same time as a local business owner is shot, she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation once more... -
Bottling It by A.A. Albright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWanda Wayfair is a bit of a late starter.At almost twenty-one she still hasn't received her magical powers, and she's running out of time. But that doesn’t bother Wanda. Much. Not when she can spend all of her time in the human world and pretend that her coven doesn’t exist... -
Booked for Kidnapping by R.J. Blain
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the assassination of Senator Maybelle, widespread rioting and unrest transform the presidential campaign into a lethal circus. With protests raging over the new bill, the government scrambles to restore peace and order.Armed with a probationary private investigation license, Janette and her friends race against time to prevent the next murder... -
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Obsidian Wings by Laken Cane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGruesome murders begin to pop up in River County, and Rune is introduced to the bird shifters--to one bird in particular, a woman named Cree Stark. When she gets a whiff of the shifters' scents where COS had been executing a grisly sacrifice, Rune begins to suspect the birds know more about the slayers--and the twins--than they're willing to admit... -
Five Mornings by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne morning can change everything. Five mornings can change a life. Friends. Lovers. Enemies. Allies. Alex McCann and Teodora ‘Ted’ Vasquez never had a simple relationship. But you couldn’t call it a boring one, either. Five mornings in their past shape who they will become to each other. To their families. And to the mysterious town they call home... -
The Warrior Omnibus #1: Books 1-6 by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s been so long, Warrior… I can feel you…Is Idina Moorfield going crazy or has an ancient magic found its source?A new Warrior is about to find out the true roots of the Moorfield name. Nothing will ever be the same... -
Tales from the Nightside: A Nightside Book by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green returns to the “bizarre and gleefully dangerous backdrop” (Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files) of the Nightside with this landmark collection of short fiction. Welcome to the Nightside... -
Dark Magic by Adam J. Wright
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsZombies on Main Street. Not my finest moment. The police aren’t exactly thrilled with me, but when a cold case heats up and starts to stink of the supernatural, suddenly the sheriff is in my office offering me a job. When the case hits boiling point, I’m dealing with monsters, black magic, and ritual killings. I even have to call on the two craziest witches in town for help... -
Gilded Latten Bones by Glen Cook
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor Garrett, P.I., loyalty and love come a close second to survival... Garrett's attempt at domestic bliss with the fiery Tinnie Tate is sidetracked when he waylays a pair of home intruders and learns they've been paid by an unknown source to kidnap Tinnie. But as Garrett rushes to find out who is trying to push his buttons, his best friend is attacked...
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