The Peculiars

7 best books like The Peculiars (Maureen Doyle McQuerry): Affair, Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, The Face in the Frost, Miranda and Caliban, Ravens, Kimiko and the Accidental Proposal, That Ain’t Witchcraft

Affair
AuthorAmanda Quick
ISBN0553574078
As a private investigator employed by marriage-minded women, Charlotte Arkendale has made a lucrative career out of delving into the lives of prospective grooms. But one of her clients has recently been murdered, and Charlotte herself has begun to receive threats. Now, she doesn't know what to make...
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
AuthorVylar Kaftan
All Bee has ever known is darkness.

She doesn’t remember the crime she committed that landed her in the cold, twisting caverns of the prison planet Colel-Cab with only fellow prisoner Chela for company. Chela says that they’re telepaths and mass-murderers; that they belong here, too...
The Face in the Frost
AuthorJohn Bellairs
The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control. A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard named Prospero lives in the Southern Kingdom a patchwork of feuding duchies and...
Miranda and Caliban
AuthorJacqueline Carey
Miranda is a lonely child. For as long as she can remember, she and her father have lived in isolation in the abandoned Moorish palace. There are chickens and goats, and a terrible wailing spirit trapped in a pine tree, but the elusive wild boy who spies on her from the crumbling walls and leaves gifts on...
Ravens
AuthorGeorge Dawes Green
ISBN0446538965
The Boatwrights just won 318 million dollars in the GeorgiaState lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives.
When Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko pull up at a convenience store off I-95 in Georgia, their only thought is to fix a leaky tire and be on their way again to Florida-away from their...
Kimiko and the Accidental Proposal
AuthorForthright .
She wasn’t aware of her gift’s significance, yet he expects to be courted.

Kimiko enrolls at the In-between’s prestigious new high school, which is designed to promote the integration of the human and inhuman races. As a reaver, she’s supposed to act as peacemaker, bridging a formidable...
That Ain’t Witchcraft
AuthorSeanan McGuire
Crossroads, noun:

1. A place where two roads cross.
2. A place where bargains can be made.
3. See also “places to avoid.”

Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings,...
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