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This novel is more of a murder-mystery with fantasy elements thrown in, than it is a fantasy with a mystery element.

If I can give one piece of advice when first reading Book of Night, it would be to ignore the blurb entirely. Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn’t easy. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. She’s spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate their shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. This urban fantasy sees Holly Black make her first foray into adult fantasy, but I’m not sure how successful it was.