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The Good Lord Bird

The Good Lord Bird
  • Author(s): James McBride
  • Location(s): Boston, Kansas
  • Era(s): 1850s

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857: the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry...

The Kind Worth Killing

The Kind Worth Killing
  • Author(s): Peter Swanson
  • Location(s): Boston, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Hello there.’ I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger’s face. ‘Do I know you?’ Delayed...

The Switch

The Switch
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): Boston, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong laptop from security. What he doesn’t know is that the owner is US senator Susan Robbins, and her laptop contains top secret files...

The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight
  • Author(s): Richard Madeley
  • Location(s): Boston, Florida Keys, New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Not until she was 16 did Stella Arnold learn the full truth about her father, how handsome, charming James turned out to be a cold-blooded, psychotic extortionist, racketeer and killer. Knowing now what her father was capable of, she...

Boston Cream

Boston Cream
  • Author(s): Howard Shrier
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

David Fine is not the kind of guy to go missing. Or so his father tells PI Jonah Geller. A brilliant young surgeon-in-training, devout, devoted to his parents–last seen 2 weeks ago leaving the Boston hospital where he worked....

Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Dear Catastrophe Waitress
  • Author(s): Brendan Halpin
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mark thinks he has found The One in college. When Raquel abruptly takes off for Los Angeles to become a rock star, Mark tries to be happy for her-until ROCK-L’s first single sweeps the airwaves-a song about Mark’s stamina...

Defending Jacob

Defending Jacob
  • Author(s): William Landay
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in suburban Boston. A 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, has been stabbed to death in the woods near the local school, and it is Andy’s son, Jacob, who is the one who’s been...

Judgment

Judgment
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sharing a one-night stand with a gentle stranger during a moment of weakness, a state superior court judge reencounters the man during a high-profile case and discovers that a conspiracy is threatening her family and federal court prospects. (suspense)....

Missing Links

Missing Links
  • Author(s): Rick Reilly
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A book for GOLF enthusiasts set in/around Boston: Missing Links recounts the tale of a coterie of golfing friends who ply their hobby at Ponkoquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a...

The Art Forger

The Art Forger
  • Author(s): B A Shapiro
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, looking back to 1990 and late 19th century

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has...

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