If Artemis outwitting the LEP with the Holly Short ransom, the time-stop at Fowl Manor, and layers of contingency plans had you grinning, you’ll love watching Locke Lamora and the Gentlemen Bastards run the Don Salvara con—only to be forced into a deadly chess match with the Gray King and Capa Barsavi. Like Artemis, Locke lives by guile, audacity, and surprise reversals, with schemes that keep one-upping the last.

If the blend of razor wit and cunning in Artemis’s kidnapping of Captain Holly Short—and the banter between Foaly, Root, and Mulch—hooked you, the sardonic djinni Bartimaeus will be your next favorite voice. Watching Nathaniel steal the Amulet from Simon Lovelace and get dragged into a conspiracy feels like Artemis bargaining for fairy gold: high-stakes power plays, sly humor, and magical politics collide.

If you enjoyed Artemis as a calculating prodigy who weaponizes people and rules—pressuring Holly, deploying Butler like a scalpel, and coolly negotiating with the LEP—Victor Vale’s transformation into an unapologetic antihero will hit the same nerve. College experiments with near-death turn Victor and Eli into superpowered rivals, and their years-long cat-and-mouse echoes Artemis’s cold-blooded strategy with a darker, adult edge.

If the secret fairy world under our noses, Foaly’s surveillance toys, and the LEP’s siege on Fowl Manor thrilled you, you’ll relish a hidden sorcerer society embedded in modern Dublin. Detective Skulduggery (a literal skeleton) and Stephanie chase the Scepter of the Ancients with quip-heavy action that mirrors the pace and zing of Artemis’s stand-offs with Commander Root.

If the LEP Recon’s bureaucratic precision—time-stops, bio-bombs like the blue rinse, Foaly’s gadgets—made the magical feel delightfully procedural, the Checquy will scratch that itch. Myfanwy Thomas wakes amid bodies and finds letters her past self left to navigate a British agency that manages the uncanny with protocols, gear, and black-ops efficiency—much like Root’s command center taking aim at Fowl Manor.