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Telling Sonny

Telling Sonny
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gauffreau
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1925-1945

An atmospheric historical novel set in small-town Vermont, where 19-year-old Faby lives with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine. The story traces an eventful year in Faby’s young life when she meets and marries...

The Devil in the Valley

The Devil in the Valley
  • Author(s): Castle Freeman
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In his quiet Vermont home, a man named Taft sits and wonders what’s missing from his life. He’s at a loss until a strange voice startles him from the rocking chair, where a stranger has seemingly appeared out of...

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...

All That I Have

All That I Have
  • Author(s): Castle Freeman
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wing is an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his corner of Vermont with a steady hand and a generous tolerance. But when local tearaway Sean ‘Superboy’ Duke starts to get tangled up with a group of...

And the Dark Sacred Night

And the Dark Sacred Night
  • Author(s): Julia Glass
  • 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...

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...

Double Black

Double Black
  • Author(s): Wendy Clinch
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In DOUBLE BLACK, Boston’s twenty-something Stacey Curtis ditches her cheating fiancé and heads for a Vermont ski town. She’s looking for the life she’s always dreamed about, but she stumbles instead into financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder....

Fade to White

Fade to White
  • Author(s): Wendy Clinch
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Hollywood Harper Stone arrives at Spruce Peak, Vermont to film a commercial. Stacey Curtis loves to ski and does a few last runs with her friend and ski patrol Chip Walsh. They find a body.

Glass Houses

Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do...

Go with Me

Go with Me
  • Author(s): Castle Freeman
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Humour, Thriller

Somewhere in backwoods Vermont, a young woman refuses to back down in the face of threats from a violent local villain. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her....

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