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The First Stone

The First Stone
  • Author(s): John Briley
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

A young, beautiful Jewish-American woman is willingly recruited by the Israeli secret service to seduce and marry a rich Saudi in order to live in his country as a mole. But as Lisa Cooper waits to be called into...

The First Time I Saw Him

The First Time I Saw Him
  • Author(s): Laura Dave
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared,...

The First Widow

The First Widow
  • Author(s): Rob Starr
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Over a hundred husbands dead. One prisoner. Countless secrets. The most horrifying case of Kiara Fox’s career . . . Kiara Fox leads a seemingly ordinary life as a highly respected fraud investigator. With a loving husband and twin...

The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy
  • Author(s): Paulina Chiziane
  • Location(s): Mozambique
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double–or rather, a quintuple–life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in...

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 First Woman

The First Woman
  • Author(s): Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

For one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has. Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo...

The Fisherman

The Fisherman
  • Author(s): John Langan
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe...

The Fisherman’s Gift

The Fisherman’s Gift
  • Author(s): Julia Kelly
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900

The sea stole him from her. Could it bring him back? The spellbinding story of a lost boy, a tragic love affair and a seafaring community’s buried secrets finally coming to light. Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up...

The Fist of God

The Fist of God
  • Author(s): Frederick Forsyth
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

From the bestselling author of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, international master of intrigue FREDERICK FORSYTH, comes a thriller that brilliantly blends fact with fiction for one of this summer’s–or any season’s–most explosive reads! From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of...

The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants

The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1990s

Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco in The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, a powerful family drama that plays out within a captivating legal thriller. Attorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a prominent...

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