If you were hooked by John Finch trudging through occupied Ambergris to untangle that impossible double-murder and navigating gray cap dictates, you'll appreciate Inspector Tyador Borlú working a homicide across two interwoven cities where citizens must "unsee" each other. The procedural grind, the tense interrogations, and the sense that every clue risks political reprisal all echo Finch's casework—only here the borders are psychological and enforced with near-mystical severity. Like Finch and Wyte threading through spore-choked alleys, Borlú stalks a crime scene where the rules themselves warp perception.

If the gray caps' fungal biotech, memory-bulbs, and dreamlike spores in occupied Ambergris got under your skin, The Vorrh offers that same feverish, reality-slipping aura. Catling's primeval forest and the colonial city abutting it ooze with uncanny phenomena, much like the way Finch keeps stumbling into living rooms that betray other ecologies. You'll find the same unsettling drift between the tangible and the inexplicable that marked Finch's encounters with the gray caps' grown architectures and Wyte's creeping transformation.

If the filigreed history of Ambergris—its fungal infrastructures, hidden tunnels, and occupied districts—kept you riveted while Finch sifted clues, New Crobuzon will scratch that same itch. From the Remade to khepri neighborhoods and bio-mechanical experiments, the city is as textured and alive as the gray caps' grown edifices. Like Finch's tightrope between civic powers and clandestine operators, Isaac's dealings with rival factions expose strata of a metropolis whose secrets are mapped in scar tissue.

If the colonial scaffolding of Ambergris—gray caps dictating curfews, collaborators, rebels, and the way history itself feels weaponized—was a draw, you'll sink into Bulikov. As Shara Komayd probes a murder in a conquered city built on the ruins of divinities, the dynamics mirror Finch's tight-lipped informants and dangerous overlords. The way old miracles linger beneath official narratives recalls Finch uncovering what the occupiers have rewritten in rot and spores.

If you liked following Finch—a weary, morally cornered detective juggling gray cap commands, rebel whispers, and his partner Wyte's infection—you'll click with Takeshi Kovacs. Hired to solve a near-impossible case for a powerful patron, Kovacs navigates the same kind of lethal compromises and bruised conscience that shadow Finch through interrogation rooms and fungal safehouses. Both books fuse noir grit with the uncanny, and both heroes make choices that sting long after the case file closes.