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Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
- Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s/50s
Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Roe is like any other fifteen year old suburban Chicago teenager. Her only worries are schoolwork, keeping up with her wayward best friend, and whether or not she should sleep with her boyfriend. Then her adoptive father, a locksmith,...
Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
After enforcer Richard “Rico” Sanders stepped in to protect his girlfriend from a local mob boss’s hot-headed nephew, all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, the nephew had vanished and three goons lay dying where they’d stood. Fighting...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
The story is of Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and it is fascinating because the fair ties together the past and the future when it comes to business, politics, architecture, science and culture.
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Charles “Cash” Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago’s inner-city kids. He’s adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the twentieth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled...
The Last Straw (Pigeon-Blood Red Book #2)
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss with no apparent motive. A black lawyer and a white enforcer with an unlikely history forge an uneasy alliance to protect...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Periods in the 20th Century
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature – it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen ‘shining girls’ through the...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Era(s): Modern
A chilling psychological thriller portraying the disintegration of a relationship down to the deadliest point when murdering your husband suddenly makes perfect sense. Todd Gilbert and Jodi Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They’ve been together...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Raine Taylor has one goal – justice for her murdered sister. She knows Genie’s husband strangled her and left her in an alley – Peter had been threatening to kill his wife for years. The police said there was...