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When We Were Strangers

When We Were Strangers
  • Author(s): Pamela Schoenewaldt
  • Location(s): Abruzzo, Cleveland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s onwards

Irma Vitale is a young woman in Abruzzo, her Mother dead, her father an alcoholic and she takes the opportunity to sail for America. This is the story of emigration to a new land and what awaits her and...

Where Have You Been?

Where Have You Been?
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York’s Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost...

Dancing Backwards

Dancing Backwards
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing...

Someone

Someone
  • Author(s): Alice McDermott
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her...

The Alienist

The Alienist
  • Author(s): Caleb Carr
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist,...

The Three Weissmanns of Westport

The Three Weissmanns of Westport
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Palm Springs, Westport
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five…He said the words ‘Irreconcilable differences’, and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. ‘Irreconcilable differences?’ she said. ‘Of course there are irreconcilable differences....

Black Orchids

Black Orchids
  • Author(s): Rex Stout
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1941

Brooklyn. 1941. Two stories before Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into WWII. Private detective, Nero Wolfe, with the aid of his assistant, Archie Goodwin, investigates a killing at a flower show and a series of poison-pen letters that result...

Blue Belle

Blue Belle
  • Author(s): Andrew Vachss
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the...

Brooklyn Girls

Brooklyn Girls
  • Author(s): Gemma Burgess
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Jobless. Clueless. Topless on Facebook. Welcome to New York City. Pia Keller is not living the dream. Unemployed, unemployable and broke, post-Uni life in a Brooklyn townhouse with her four best friends suddenly isn’t so easy. And that’s before...

Don’t I know You?

Don’t I know You?
  • Author(s): Karen Shep
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

In Part 1 it is 1976 and twelve years old Steven Engels comes home to his family’s Upper West Side apartment only to discover the corpse of his single mother Gina who has been stabbed to death. A year...

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