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Blood In The Water

Blood In The Water
  • Author(s): Jack Flynn
  • 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...

Cloudland

Cloudland
  • Author(s): Joseph Olshan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

While out walking during an early spring thaw, Catherine Winslow discovers the body of a woman leaning against an apple tree. From the corpse’s pink parka, Winslow recognizes her as the latest victim of a serial killer, a woman...

False Allegiance

False Allegiance
  • Author(s): Nick Thacker
  • 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...

If I Had Two Lives

If I Had Two Lives
  • Author(s): Abbigail N Rosewood
  • Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC), Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000's

This luminous debut novel follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. As a child, isolated from the world in...

North of Boston

North of Boston
  • Author(s): Elisabeth Elo
  • 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...

Sandwich

Sandwich
  • Author(s): Catherine Newman
  • 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...

Terminal Value

Terminal Value
  • Author(s): Thomas Waite
  • 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...

The Beekeeper’s Daughter

The Beekeeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • 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...

The Northern Reach

The Northern Reach
  • Author(s): W S Winslow
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Multiple Timelines - 1904 / 2017

A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea,...

The Silent Girls

The Silent Girls
  • Author(s): Eric Rickstad
  • Location(s): New Hampshire, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The Silent Girls is an engrossing and dark psychological thriller that follows private investigator Frank Rath’s investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances of teenage girls during the dead of winter in the rural town of Canaan, Vermont. Chilling...

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