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It Happened One Summer

It Happened One Summer
  • Author(s): Tessa Bailey
  • Location(s): Westport
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is...

Maine Characters

Maine Characters
  • Author(s): Hannah Orenstein
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month each with their father, Hank, at his family cabin on a lake in Maine – Lucy in July, Vivian in August. Vivian is a successful sommelier working in NYC’s...

The Oligarch’s Daughter

The Oligarch’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Moscow, New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 6 years back

THE PAST CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is...

You Are Fatally Invited

You Are Fatally Invited
  • Author(s): Ande Pliego
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six thriller authors. One writing retreat. You’d die to be on the guest list . . . The Host Legendary mystery author J. R. Alastor’s books are sold all over the world, but no one knows his real name....

The First Witch of Boston

The First Witch of Boston
  • Author(s): Andrea Catalano
  • Location(s): Boston, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s

A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a...

The Summer Guests

The Summer Guests
  • Author(s): Tess Gerritsen
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Martini Club 2) THE MARTINI CLUB ISN’T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . . Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity. And this...

Fire Exit

Fire Exit
  • Author(s): Morgan Talty
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Beautifully crafted debut set in a Native community in the US.’ The Observer A lone white man lives beside the river on the edge of the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Charles spends his days doing odd jobs, looking after...

Death Rites

Death Rites
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Carla James Crime Thrillers Book 1) A calculated killer. A town under threat. An unfinished pattern… Archaeology professor Carla James is reeling following the death of her husband. Desperate for a change of scene, she takes a job at...

The Crash

The Crash
  • Author(s): Freida McFadden
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed… Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with...

Idle Grounds

Idle Grounds
  • Author(s): Krystelle Bamford
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1989

On a bright summer day in 1989 New England, Abi, three years old, vanishes from her aunt’s secluded home. Upstairs, her young cousins are looking out of the window. Something is unfolding in the distance at the edge of...

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