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The Cutaway

The Cutaway
  • Author(s): Christina Kovac
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins with someone else’s story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing – but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And...

The Golden Couple

The Golden Couple
  • Author(s): Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Golden Couple is an addictive page-turning psychological thriller from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the bestselling The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, that will keep you guessing to the very end. Marissa and...

Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Seville, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

Part set in Sevilla, this is the novel about the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encountering a mysterious code it cannot break. Call in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician and cryptogrpher. Her discovery sends shock waves through the corridors...

Shelley’s Heart

Shelley’s Heart
  • Author(s): Charles McCarry
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

The first US presidential election of the twenty-first century is stolen through computer fraud. The losing candidate discovers the truth and demands that the victor, his long-time friend and rival, step down. The incumbent President refuses, thereby sparking a...

What it Was

What it Was
  • Author(s): George Pelecanos
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1972

Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank “Hound Dog” Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for...

You are the love of my life

You are the love of my life
  • Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children’s book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in Washington in the...

A Demon’s Witch

A Demon’s Witch
  • Author(s): Tena Stetler
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Romance, Paranormal
  • Era(s): modern time

Keeping a lid on all the paranormal beings inhabiting Washington D.C., is a daunting job. Bruce, a six hundred year old demon and the Territory Overlord of the Western Hemisphere, keeps his finger on the pulse of DC’s power...

A House in Stockholm

A House in Stockholm
  • Author(s): Kathy Harter
  • Location(s): Stockholm, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Life as an ex-spy for the C.I.A is tough enough when ghosts of the past refuse to let go. Chasing bad guys is all Joshua Daine knows, when he could avoid any personal involvement with work. Now, cut loose,...

A Warlock’s Secrets

A Warlock’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Tena Stetler
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): modern time

Years ago, a sacred ceremony at the Dragon’s Moon Coven turned deadly. Son of the high priestess, Tristian Shandie’s life changed forever. With a price on his head and revenge in his heart, he has no choice but to...

All the President’s Men

All the President’s Men
  • Author(s): Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Political
  • Era(s): 1970s

It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, on 17 June 1972. Bob Woodward, a journalist for the Washington Post, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story....

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