If what gripped you in The Hallowed Hunt was watching Ingrey and Ijada navigate gods’ claims and human law—leopard-spirit and all—while untangling Prince Boleso’s death and the Weald’s succession stakes, you’ll love how City of Stairs puts a spy-diplomat on the trail of a murder in a city where forbidden gods still cast long shadows. Like the Weald’s old rites and the Bastard’s unsettling interventions, the dead divinities here leave relic-miracles and moral traps, and the investigation peels back layers of theology, history, and power with every clue.

If you enjoyed how Ingrey’s duty leads him to probe Boleso’s killing—and how sacred obligations and uncanny forces complicate the truth—The Witness for the Dead centers a priest, Thara Celehar, who literally hears the dead to unravel murders, frauds, and family secrets. The tone echoes the intimate, procedural unraveling you liked: quiet interviews, fraught testimonies, and revelations that carry the same weight as Ingrey and Ijada’s courtroom peril and spiritual reckonings.

If the heart of The Hallowed Hunt for you was the moral tightrope—shamanic animal-spirits, god-touched justice, and the price Ingrey and Ijada pay to use sacred power—then The Killing Moon will hit the same nerve. Dream-priests draw magic from sleep and must obey rigid codes, much like the Five Gods’ thorny claims on souls. When politics test those rules, the dilemmas feel as harrowing as Ingrey’s possession and Ijada’s leopard-bound fate: power has a purpose, and misusing it scars the world and the self.

If you were drawn to the way Ingrey and Ijada, both burdened—he by a predatory spirit, she by the leopard’s divine claim—grow from wary allies into something deeper, Paladin’s Grace offers that same tender, adult connection. A broken paladin and a cautious perfumer are pulled together by faith, danger, and a murder plot. The romance unfolds with the patient, trust-building beats you liked around that Wealdish trial and its aftermath, where small acts of grace matter as much as heroics.

If Ingrey’s inner battles—being ridden by a feral spirit, fearing judgment from the Five, and groping toward a hard-won redemption alongside Ijada—stuck with you, Lent compels in a similar, deeply internal way. Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola confronts demons, prophecy, and the terrifying ambiguity of salvation. The spiritual psychology is as rich as the Weald’s god-haunted crises, turning questions of guilt, calling, and mercy into a narrative as tense as any duel or trial.