If you cackled at Lex’s snark while she and Uncle Mort traded gallows jokes between Kills and Releases, you’ll vibe with the deadpan, morbid comedy in Hold Me Closer, Necromancer. Sam discovers he’s a necromancer and gets dragged into a turf war with a homicidal rival, cracking wise even as things get grim—very much the same laugh-in-the-face-of-death energy that made Lex and Driggs’s banter in Croak so addictive.

Loved how Lex’s hidden Reaper town sits inside our world and turns death into a job description? In The Screaming Staircase, Lucy joins a teen-run ghost-hunting agency in a modern London overrun by restless dead. The casework danger, clever quips, and team chemistry echo Lex’s late-night runs and razor-wit with Driggs—just swap scythes for rapiers and chains of iron.

If the hunt for the rogue killer in Croak—with Lex tracing unnatural deaths beyond a Reaper’s rules—hooked you, The Archived delivers that same itch. Mackenzie is a Keeper who returns runaway histories of the dead to a library of corpses, then uncovers a cover-up that smells like the Crafter’s rule-breaking all over again. It’s moody, twisty, and full of midnight corridors where the dead don’t behave.

If Uncle Mort’s wry mentorship of Lex—teaching her the ethics and mechanics of harvesting—was your jam, The Graveyard Book gives you Silas guiding Bod through graveyard lore, haunts, and hard choices. It’s that same bittersweet training-wheels-on-the-macabre vibe, as a kid learns to live with the dead and decide what kind of person they’ll be when the rules get murky.

If watching Lex grow from volatile troublemaker to purposeful Reaper—balancing duty, danger, and her feelings for Driggs—won you over, Cemetery Boys hits the same notes. Yadriel proves himself as a brujo, accidentally summons a ghost boy with secrets, and finds heart and courage in the mess. It’s a heartfelt, high-stakes glow-up in the world of the dead, with humor and swoon to match.