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Terminal Value

Terminal Value
  • Author(s): Thomas Waite
  • Location(s): Boston, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

“Be careful what you wish for.” That’s a warning Dylan Johnson should have listened to. When his mobile computing firm is bought out by Mantric Technology, a red-hot company about to go public, it seems like a dream come...

The Beekeeper’s Daughter

The Beekeeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Dorset, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1970s

Dorset, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future – until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that...

The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud’s so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer’s intention to make St Cloud’s his home.’...

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 Given Day

The Given Day
  • Author(s): Dennis Lehane
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post WW1 onwards

This book is set primarily in Boston, post WW1. It tells the epic story of two families, one white, one black, both trying to find their way through a new order, interweaving in real life people and events. A...

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...

A Hundred Summers

A Hundred Summers
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

The New York Times bestselling novel. Rhode Island, 1938. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal… Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family have summered for generations. She’s hoping for an escape from the...

A Box of Matches

A Box of Matches
  • Author(s): Nicholson Baker
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here...

A Drink before the War

A Drink before the War
  • Author(s): Dennis Lehane
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple...

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...

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