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Murder, D.C.

Murder, D.C.
  • Author(s): Neely Tucker
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions―no matter what...

Solo (A James Bond Novel)

Solo (A James Bond Novel)
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Washington DC, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1969

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided...

The Big Blowdown

The Big Blowdown
  • Author(s): George Pelecanos
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

In the quartet of novels about life in Washington DC of which The Big Blowdown is chronologically the first, George Pelecanos intelligently breaks down the thin barriers between the noir thriller and the character-driven novel of embattled masculinity. In...

The Cutaway

The Cutaway
  • Author(s): Christina Kovac
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins with someone else’s story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing – but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And...

The Double

The Double
  • Author(s): George Pelecanos
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items – the kind of items the owners can’t go to the police about. This...

The Jazz Flower

The Jazz Flower
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1950s

The Jazz Flower is a follow-up to Forbidden Circles, which ends with Nora Johnson and Douglas Stills expecting their first child. In The Jazz Flower, the child is born. Later, the couple has two more children. But it is...

The Lost Symbol

The Lost Symbol
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world...

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...

You are the love of my life

You are the love of my life
  • Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children’s book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in Washington in the...

A Jewish Girl in Paris

A Jewish Girl in Paris
  • Author(s): Melanie Levensohn
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 2006

In this vivid, affecting novel of intertwined destinies and the enduring power of love against the bleakest odds, Levensohn weaves a tale saturated with historical accuracy and yet surprisingly intimate. A Jewish Girl in Parisdelivers romance and intrigue to...

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