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Gone Girl

Gone Girl
  • Author(s): Gillian Flynn
  • Location(s): Carthage, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2011/2012

‘What are you thinking, Amy?’ The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: ‘What are you thinking? How...

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....

A Little Life

A Little Life
  • Author(s): Hanya Yanagihara
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke,...

All Grown Up

All Grown Up
  • Author(s): Jami Attenberg
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Andrea is a single, childless 39-year-old woman who tries to navigate family, sexuality, friendships and a career she never wanted, but battles with thoughts and desires that few people would want to face up to. Told in gut-wrenchingly honest...

All I did was shoot my man

All I did was shoot my man
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella...

American Psycho

American Psycho
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): 1980s

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and...

And All That Madness

And All That Madness
  • Author(s): Joan Merrill
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

AND ALL THAT MADNESS a Casey McKie mystery by Joan Merrill When the New York Jazz Society acquires a fifty-year old letter from Georgia Valentine, questions arise over the legendary vocalist’s death. Did she give herself a fatal dose...

Autobiography of Us

Autobiography of Us
  • Author(s): Aria Beth Sloss
  • Location(s): California, New York City (NYC), Pasadena
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s and modern

Coming of age in early 1960s suburban California, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless best friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers’ narrow expectations. As teenagers they are inseparable. But then, one sweltering evening the summer before their...

Banished Children of Eve

Banished Children of Eve
  • Author(s): Peter Quinn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s, Modern

Set in New York City in 1863, this is a history of the city and its people, from the ground up. Through both fictional and historical characters, Quinn offers a perspective on New York City that doesn’t appear in...

Brooklyn Noir 2 (The classics)

Brooklyn Noir 2 (The classics)
  • Author(s): Tim McLoughlin
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

An anthology of noir short stories under the editorship of Tim McLoughlin. Presents an anthology of chilling stories, each set in a distinct neighborhood of Brooklyn, featuring contributions by such noted mystery writers as Pete Hamill, H.P. Lovecraft, Donald...

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