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Premise labels used: alien threat, team investigation, secret agency, mystery identity, false team member, world-ending warning, mind control, urban outbreak

Setting labels used: Cardiff, contemporary setting, urban fantasy, secret base, underwater tower, rift-connected reality, alternate-history anomaly, small-scale urban setting

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Another Life

Peter Anghelides · 2007 · Torchwood

Torchwood tracks a grisly Cardiff murder spree while floods rise and a teammate vanishes into a virtual-world side mystery.

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Premise labels: alien threat · team investigation · murder mystery · flood disaster · body possession · secret organization · human-alien encounter

Setting labels: Cardiff · Wales · rainy city · army base · underwater bay · secret underground base · contemporary setting · alien-invaded world

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Distance: 0.1335

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The Twilight Streets

Gary Russell · 2008 · Torchwood

Torchwood investigates a cursed Cardiff neighborhood tied to an old enemy, future visions, and Jack's limits.

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Premise labels: urban mystery · forbidden district · hidden threat · future visions · old enemy returns · investigation team

Setting labels: Cardiff · urban Cardiff · renovation project · gentrifying neighborhood · rundown streets · rift-linked reality · contemporary setting · alternate future · World War II era · model housing · Wales

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Distance: 0.2058

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The Man with the Golden Torc

Simon R. Green · 2007 · Secret Histories

A rogue supernatural secret agent must clear his name while uncovering the dark truth at the heart of his own family.

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Premise labels: secret agent · supernatural threats · rogue agent · family conspiracy · protect humanity · hidden world · magic gadgets · masked identity

Setting labels: contemporary Britain · London · urban setting · hidden supernatural world · secret society · alternate present · international espionage milieu

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Distance: 0.2219

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Equoid

Charles Stross · 2013 · Laundry Files

A secret British agent investigates a rural unicorn outbreak and discovers the creatures are far from mythical.

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Premise labels: secret agency · occult investigation · monster outbreak · unicorn horror · bureaucratic mission · country assignment · eldritch creatures

Setting labels: English countryside · rural England · Great Britain · secret government setting · contemporary setting · urban fantasy world · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2290

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Monster Hunter International

Larry Correia · 2009 · Monster Hunter International

An accountant is recruited into a secret monster-hunting company after killing his werewolf boss.

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Premise labels: monster hunters · secret monsters · government secrecy · monster eradication · apocalypse threat · private contractor

Setting labels: contemporary setting · alternate earth · hidden supernatural world · secret government knowledge · urban setting

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Distance: 0.2308

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Dark Rising

Greig Beck · 2011 · Alex Hunter

A super-soldier and covert team race to stop a black-hole experiment in Iran before it unleashes a world-ending threat.

Why this is here

Premise labels: black hole threat · covert mission · military team · scientific disaster · monster threat · counterterrorism · secret technology · world-ending stakes

Setting labels: Iran · Middle East · desert setting · underground facility · secret lab · ancient caves · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2334

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The Rhesus Chart

Charles Stross · 2014 · Laundry Files

When a London bank’s strange algorithm sparks vampire-like symptoms, Bob Howard’s secret agency must confront what it insists cannot exist.

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Premise labels: vampire outbreak · secret agency · bureaucratic occult service · banking conspiracy · spycraft · computational demonology · hidden supernatural threat · state secrecy

Setting labels: London · Canary Wharf · British government · financial district · contemporary · occult Britain · secret-history world · urban fantasy setting

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Distance: 0.2355

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Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

Simon R. Green · 2006 · Nightside

A Nightside PI races to stop his world-ending mother from remaking a hidden city—and dooming everything else.

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Premise labels: private investigator · missing mother · world-ending threat · city under siege · prophecy · apocalypse · family conflict · quest for answers · race against fate

Setting labels: London · hidden city · alternate reality · parallel world · night setting · liminal city · urban fantasy setting · mythic city · corrupt city

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Distance: 0.2406

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Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology

Warren Ellis · 2010 · Planetary

A mystery-obsessed super-team uncovers hidden histories and faces a final conspiracy across Earth, time, and the multiverse.

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Premise labels: Mystery team · Secret history · Anomalous investigations · Paranormal archaeology · Superhuman activity · Conspiracy mystery · Artefact hunt · Hidden worlds · Final showdown

Setting labels: Late 20th century · Earth · Outer space · Parallel worlds · Multiverse · Aliens · Secret bases · Historical past · Alternate histories

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Distance: 0.2410

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B.P.R.D., Vol. 3: Plague of Frogs

Mike Mignola · 2004 · B.P.R.D.

A paranormal team battles a spreading frog plague while one member’s mysterious past and the team’s grief come to a head.

Why this is here

Premise labels: paranormal investigation · monster outbreak · occult secrets · team under siege · origin mystery · apocalyptic threat

Setting labels: secret headquarters · Colorado base · abandoned military base · haunted house · haunted village · cursed village · France · America · urban fantasy world · alternate-history occult world · Cold War relic

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Distance: 0.2482

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The Capture

K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate · 1997 · Animorphs

A teen resistance leader is infiltrating an alien scheme when he becomes trapped inside his own body.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · body possession · undercover mission · rescue mission · enemy within · resistance cell

Setting labels: contemporary Earth · hospital setting · woods setting · enemy base · alien occupation

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Distance: 0.2484

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Cosmic Detective

Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt · 2023

An unnamed detective investigates an impossible murder in a neon-noir future where gods walk among humans.

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Premise labels: murder mystery · impossible murder · god murder · detective investigation · shadow agency · secret world · cosmic conspiracy · high-stakes case

Setting labels: dark city · grimy city · near future · future city · urban noir · secret facility · interdimensional world · alternate reality · cosmic setting

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Distance: 0.2490

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