If what hooked you was DI Quill’s team getting “the Sight” and turning a grim gangland case into an occult manhunt—right down to those football-linked deaths and the witch behind them—then you’ll love how PC Peter Grant stumbles into London’s magical underbelly in Rivers of London. Nightingale mentors him through cases involving vengeful river gods and a murderous spirit tied to Punch & Judy, blending procedural legwork with uncanny rules of the city the way Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross fuse forensics with second sight.

If you were drawn to the police-procedural spine of London Falling—Quill’s team grinding through interviews, evidence, and very mortal danger even after they gain the Sight—Miéville’s The City & the City delivers that same investigative rigor with a mind-twisting secret. Inspector Tyador Borlú’s murder case forces him to navigate Besźel and Ul Qoma’s forbidden overlaps, much like how Quill’s unit must learn the hidden rules of London’s supernatural underlayer to catch their witch.

If the bleak, violent edge of London Falling grabbed you—the torture rooms, the football-curse body count, the way using second sight has real costs—then Felix Castor’s first outing in The Devil You Know hits the same nerve. Castor’s an exorcist-PI who takes a museum haunting that spirals into a brutal conspiracy, with rituals that feel as perilous and predatory as the power that Quill’s squad unlocks while hunting their witch.

If you loved how London Falling builds a tight, complementary unit—Quill’s command, Costain’s edge, Sefton’s insight, Ross’s analytical nerve—then The Rook gives you another addictive team dynamic. Myfanwy Thomas wakes with no memory and discovers she’s a leader in the Checquy, a clandestine organization of powered operatives. The mix of bureaucratic black ops, strange abilities, and collaborative sleuthing echoes Quill’s crew learning to see the unseen London together.

If Costain’s compromised loyalties and the team’s questionable methods appealed to you—the way London Falling lets cops tread murky lines to catch a supernatural predator—then Zoo City will hit that sweet spot. Zinzi December is hustling through Johannesburg with a magical sloth familiar and a checkered past, taking a missing-person job that drags her into a brutal music-industry conspiracy, forcing choices as ethically messy as those Quill’s unit faces under the witch’s shadow.