If you were captivated by how Grace’s voice wavers between confession and concealment under Dr. Jordan’s questioning—and how the hypnosis scene muddies truth and memory—then James’s governess at Bly will hook you the same way. Like Grace recounting the Kinnear household and Nancy Montgomery with careful omissions, the governess’s account invites you to decide whether you’re reading a haunting or a mind unraveling. It’s that same delicious tension between testimony and truth you felt in Alias Grace.

If the patchwork structure of Alias Grace—piecing together Grace’s past as a servant in the Kinnear home with present-day interviews—pulled you in, Atonement offers a similarly intricate weave. As Briony’s childhood misreading ripples forward across decades, you’ll get the same slow reveal and shifting perspectives that made the truth behind Nancy Montgomery’s death feel elusive until the final stitches come together.

If you loved how Alias Grace builds its case from scraps—Dr. Jordan’s notes, newspaper clippings, and competing testimonies around the Kinnear murders—Collins’s classic lets you sift a mystery through a chorus of documents and voices. From Gabriel Betteredge’s prim accounts to other firsthand statements, you’ll relish the same courtroom-in-your-head feeling of weighing evidence as you did with Grace’s carefully quilted narrative.

If the charged conversations between Grace and Dr. Jordan—two minds circling power, desire, and diagnosis across prison bars—were your favorite parts, Affinity will feel like a secret twin. In Victorian London, Margaret Prior visits Millbank Prison and becomes entangled with Selina Dawes, a spirit medium. The intimate sessions, the pull of belief versus evidence, and the claustrophobic pull of the cell echo the spell Alias Grace cast in Kingston Penitentiary.

If you were drawn to feeling protective of Grace Marks even as doubts about her role in Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery’s deaths lingered, Jackson’s Merricat will press the same buttons. You’ll navigate village suspicion, family tragedy, and a narrator whose charm doesn’t erase the unsettling details—much like caring for Grace while never fully knowing what happened in that house.