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Catch Me

Catch Me
  • Author(s): Lisa Gardner
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME… At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Confronting...

Dark Harbour

Dark Harbour
  • Author(s): David Hosp
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Scott Finn worked his way out of Boston’s toughest neighbourhood to become a rising star in the city’s most elite law firm. When the body of Natalie Caldwell, one of his closest colleagues, and former lover, is found floating...

Harbor

Harbor
  • Author(s): Lorraine Adams
  • Location(s): Algeria, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Aziz (from Algeria) jumps off a ship and swims into Boston Harbour, not knwoing the language and in poor condition. He cannot connect with the new world as everything right down to language is very alien. He is reunited...

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest
  • Author(s): David Foster Wallace
  • Location(s): Boston, North America
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Near Future

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie...

Karma and Other Stories

Karma and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Rishi Reddi
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Era(s): Various

Short stories set mainly in Boston

Painted Hands

Painted Hands
  • Author(s): Jennifer Zobair
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural...

The Other Woman

The Other Woman
  • Author(s): Hanki Phillippi Ryan
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Era(s): Modern

Jane Ryland is a Boston television journalist is a television journalist who has got into trouble for no naming sources and consequently gets fired. She picks up a job at a small newspaper where she gets caught up in...

A Short Move

A Short Move
  • Author(s): Katherine Hill
  • Location(s): Louisiana, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1971 onwards

In a small Virginia town in 1971, a high school football star runs out on his pregnant girlfriend. Six years later, that child meets his father for the first time and discovers the athlete within. Before long he is...

A Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember
  • Author(s): Victoria Cooke
  • Location(s): Cape Cod, Boston
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present

Sam lives by the mantra that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. After the tragic loss of her husband, Sam built a new life around friends, her cat Coco and...

Before She Knew Him

Before She Knew Him
  • Author(s): Peter Swanson
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house, they’re relieved to meet another childless couple in their neighbourhood, Matthew and Mira. But when they’re invited over for dinner, Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in Matthew’s study. Could...

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