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- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, but V.I. Warshawski knows its politics: “Pay to Play”. Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects. Private investigator V.I....
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 2 Jack Reacher series Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere. A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. Reacher offers her a steadying arm. And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach. Chained...
- Location(s): Chicago, Illinois
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Macau (Macao), Chicago
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Crime, Miscellaneous, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Heart of Glass is a pacy literary thriller set in the 1980s’ disco era. It is exotic and noirish popular fiction. Li-an is a con artist and talented Chinese American musician in Chicago’s Chinatown. With accomplice Dallas, she drugs...
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a...
- Location(s): Arizona, Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): 1970s-2000s
It’s July, 1975 and an overworked Chicago police force receives a call that an 85-year-old white man has been attacked by a gang of black youths on the lakefront in Burnham Park. Amid public outrage, contentious Mayor Richard J....
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
From bestselling author Brian Freeman comes an explosive new psychological thriller that pushes the limits of reality as we know it. One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his...