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- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Homeland Security agent, Kit Steel, is committed to avenge terrorism. And she’s after the blood of her nemesis, one of world’s most ruthless and dangerous criminals, Vincente Carpio. He has the blood of her husband and young son on...
- Location(s): Massachusetts, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Gambia / Senegal border
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Someone wants Jake Parker dead. He’ll find out why, or die trying… Ex-army, ex-police, widowed husband, estranged son. Jake Parker has no family, no one to care if one of the government-contract jobs he takes goes wrong. So he’s...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong…? For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their rustic beach-town rental has been the site...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Year’s Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist Dennis Lehane meets Smilla’s Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo’s debut novel...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
The New York Times’s reviewer wrote: ‘Love is hard enough to write about, but a parent’s love for a child is almost inexpressible in its universality and in the uneventfulness of its nature under ordinary circumstances. When Alex disappears,...
- Location(s): Boston, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
“Be careful what you wish for.” That’s a warning Dylan Johnson should have listened to. When his mobile computing firm is bought out by Mantric Technology, a red-hot company about to go public, it seems like a dream come...
- Location(s): Dorset, Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s and 1970s
Dorset, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future – until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post WW1 onwards
This book is set primarily in Boston, post WW1. It tells the epic story of two families, one white, one black, both trying to find their way through a new order, interweaving in real life people and events. A...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple...
- Location(s): Cape Cod, New Jersey, Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural...
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