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Storm Rising

Storm Rising
  • Author(s): Kenneth Hoss
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a murder investigation turns Detective Kelli Storm’s attention to a drug kingpin, the last thing she expected was to find a link to her father’s killer from twenty years earlier. Detectives Kelli Storm and Bill Hayes are investigating...

Survival Tactics: A Novel Of Suspense

Survival Tactics: A Novel Of Suspense
  • Author(s): Erica R Stinson
  • Location(s): Charlottesville, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Moden

Life has always been difficult for Daphne Edwards. Sexually and physically abused during the most tender years of her life by her own parents, removed from her home and put into the foster care system at age ten, Daphne...

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...

The Astral

The Astral
  • Author(s): Kate Christensen
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent...

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar
  • Author(s): Sylvia Plath
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s...

The Bone Vault

The Bone Vault
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

A crime thriller that takes you around the Museums in New York! Again there is a murder which is investigated by Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. There are several twists in the relationship...

The Confession

The Confession
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2000s

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada
  • Author(s): Lauren Weisberger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The classic bestseller – over a million copies sold worldwide High fashion, low cunning – and the boss from hell When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She’s never heard of...

The Dirty Life

The Dirty Life
  • Author(s): Kristin Kimball
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

When Manhattan writer Kristin Kimball arrived to interview Mark on a Pennsylvanian farm, she was wearing high heels and a crisp white shirt and had been vegetarian for thirteen years. That evening, she found herself helping him to slaughter...

The Fortress of Solitude

The Fortress of Solitude
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill.

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