If John Taylor slipping from mundane London into the Nightside’s secret streets hooked you, you’ll love how rookie constable Peter Grant discovers a whole other London—the one with river gods, ghosts, and warded safehouses. Like Taylor ducking into Strangefellows and calling on old favors, Peter learns the backdoor rules of the city’s supernatural neighborhoods, guided by the enigmatic Nightingale. It’s that same thrill of stepping behind the curtain and realizing the city you know has teeth—and etiquette.

You enjoyed John Taylor taking a case he probably shouldn’t—tracking a missing girl that drags him through deals with Shotgun Suzie and other dubious allies—so Felix Castor’s first outing should hit the spot. Here, an exorcist-turned-investigator gets hired for a job that looks simple and turns into a nasty tangle of ghosts, gangsters, and moral compromise. The way Taylor uses his gift to find what’s lost mirrors Castor’s knack for reading the dead—both men follow the clues into places no sane detective should tread.

If the Nightside’s mean streets, razor-edged threats like Razor Eddie, and Taylor’s sardonic asides are your jam, James Stark will feel like a wicked cousin. After escaping Hell, Stark dives into L.A.’s occult underbelly with a mouth full of gallows humor and a list of people to hurt. The mix of barroom showdowns you got in Strangefellows and quick, bloody reckonings is here in spades—equal parts grim violence and snappy, blackly comic payback.

If Nightside’s reality-warping bazaars, time-twisted alleys, and casually impossible horrors delighted you, Kraken delivers a whole city of that. When a preserved giant squid vanishes from a museum, London’s weirder sects—apocalypse cults, familiars’ unions, living tattoos—erupt into war. It’s the same fever-dream logic that sends Taylor down streets that shouldn’t exist; every corner hides a new, deliciously bizarre rule of the world.

John Taylor cuts deals, keeps ugly secrets, and works with killers like Shotgun Suzie to get the job done. Joe Pitt, a vampyre PI in New York, plays the same game—balancing rival clans, lying when he must, and doing brutal things to keep one step ahead. If you appreciated how Taylor’s ‘find anything’ gift forces him into shaky alliances and dirty compromises, Joe’s casework—juggling a missing-person trail with citywide vampire politics—will scratch that itch.