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Nanny Needed

Nanny Needed
  • Author(s): Georgina Cross
  • Location(s): Upper West Side, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 20 years

When Sarah Larsen answers the Bird family’s advertisement, her life changes overnight. The job seems like a dream come true: nannying in a glamorous penthouse apartment with a salary that adds several zeroes to her current income. Sarah signs...

The Snow Girl

The Snow Girl
  • Author(s): Javier Castillo
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

Where is Kiera Templeton? Aaron and Grace Templeton will never forget the 1998 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day their daughter Kiera got lost in the crowd. Investigative journalist Miren Triggs has spent years trying to help the Templetons...

The Wife

The Wife
  • Author(s): Alafair Burke
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan, The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The stunning new domestic thriller from the New York Times-bestselling, Edgar-nominated author of The Ex When Angela met Jason Powell, while catering a function in the Hamptons, she assumed their romance would be a fling. But, Jason, a brilliant...

Too Far

Too Far
  • Author(s): Jason Starr
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jack Harper isn’t a bad man, but he’s stuck in a loveless marriage with a mediocre job just trying to keep sober. The only good thing in his life is his son. When an old college friend introduces him...

Mrs March

Mrs March
  • Author(s): Virginia Feito
  • Location(s): Upper East Side
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern with a 1950s vibe

George March’s latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolades and relishes the lifestyle and status his success brings. A creature of routine and decorum, Mrs....

By Any Other Name

By Any Other Name
  • Author(s): Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): England, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 16th Century / Contemporary

What if the greatest writer of all time isn’t who we think he is? What if he isn’t even a he? Step back four hundred years and discover the female author who hid behind the mask of the man...

Grace of the Empire State

Grace of the Empire State
  • Author(s): Gemma Tizzard
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930

As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace’s Irish immigrant family can’t afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her little sister urgently needs. When her twin brother is injured and can no longer work on the construction...

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
  • Author(s): Kathleen Rooney
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for Macy’s department store to become the highest paid advertising woman in the world. Now it s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years...

Swan Song

Swan Song
  • Author(s): Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

To the outside world, they were the icons of high society ― the most glamorous and influential women of their age. To Truman Capote they were his Swans: the ideal heroines, as vulnerable as they were powerful. They trusted...

Carnivore

Carnivore
  • Author(s): K Anis Ahmed
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Dhaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2008 onwards)

In New York’s high-end restaurant scene one chef will do anything, and cook anything, to come out on top. Kash owes a lot of money. His restaurant, specialising in exotic meats and catering to New York’s elite, was doing...

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