- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s, 2010
The story, which takes its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon, continues Jio’s rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. Seattle, 1932. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer’s night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Beauregard “Bug” Montage: honest mechanic, loving husband, devoted parent. He’s no longer the criminal he once was – the sharpest wheelman on the east coast, infamous from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida. But when...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city’s underworld, and of the law’s corruption and...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): 2005 in the months before and after 7/7
Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, five months before 7/7. Georgie, a young woman wary of relationships after previous heartbreak, gives in and agrees to sleep with close friend Julian. She’s...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
In New York’s Harlem, every street is steeped in history, and the music of jazz legends plays in the memories of its residents. Artie Cohen could feel at home here – if he wasn’t on the trail of a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice’s Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death – fake...
- Location(s): Valencia
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they...










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