If you loved how The Miniaturist immersed you in Nella’s canal house, the spice-scented storerooms, and the strict guild-and-church rhythms of 1680s Amsterdam, you’ll savor Chevalier’s Delft—pigments being ground in Vermeer’s studio, market days along the canals, and the fraught etiquette of patrons like van Ruijven. Like watching Nella navigate the Brandt household’s rules, you’re placed right beside Griet as she learns the subtle codes of art, class, and survival.

If you were drawn to how The Miniaturist mostly lives inside the Brandt home—Nella, Marin, Cornelia, and Otto circling one another in tense rooms where secrets press against the walls—Perry’s tale of Cora Seaborne and the Aldwinter parish offers that same intimate, slow-bloom intensity. As with Nella’s late-night discoveries and hushed parlors on the Kloveniersburgwal, you’ll relish the close-knit community’s whispered fears and the charged conversations between Cora and Reverend Will.

If the miniaturist’s parcels in The Miniaturist—arriving unbidden, seeming to foretell Johannes’s scandal and the household’s fate—gave you chills, The Snow Child mirrors that exquisite uncertainty. As Nella puzzles over the dollhouse’s prophetic life, you’ll feel the same shiver when Faina appears out of winter itself: is she flesh, fable, or a miracle the land keeps to itself? It’s that delicate, shimmering line between reality and the uncanny that will hook you.

If Marin’s steel, Nella’s hard-won courage, and Cornelia’s quiet competence anchored The Miniaturist for you—especially as church and guild power closed in after Johannes’s arrest—then the women of Vardø will captivate you. Like watching Nella and Marin defy a society eager to punish them, you’ll follow Maren and her community as they weather suspicion and the arrival of Absalom Cornet, finding solidarity, ingenuity, and love under impossible scrutiny.

If the gut-punch of Johannes’s secret being exposed, the courtroom spiral, and the late revelations about the miniaturist’s identity thrilled you in The Miniaturist, Fingersmith delivers twist after gasp. You’ll be right there with Sue Trinder and Maud Lilly as a scheme turns itself inside out, loyalties flip, and the truth hits with the same jaw-dropping force as Nella’s realization that the dollhouse has been warning her all along.