Read-alikes

Books Like A Study in Drowning

A Study in Drowning is enemies to lovers, slow burn & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Effy Sayre, haunted since childhood by visions of the Fairy King, wins a contest to redesign the crumbling seaside estate of her beloved author Emrys Myrddin. At Hiraeth Manor she clashes with Preston Héloury, a literature scholar bent on proving Myrddin is a fraud, and together they unravel a legacy tangled with dark magic, buried secrets, and the question of whose stories get to be told.