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Broken Places

Broken Places
  • Author(s): Tracy Clark
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Cass Raines Mystery Book 1) When Cass Raines took a bullet in the line of duty, it wasn’t injury that saw her quit the police but the cover up for an incompetent colleague that followed. Now, the Chicago...

Children Below Us: Child Trafficking

Children Below Us:  Child Trafficking
  • Author(s): Blair London
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Claire and her brother Owen were staying at parents’ old home. Parents were in nursing home, but house hadn’t been sold yet and had most of the furnishings. However, house had been vacant of occupants for quite some time....

Dead Land

Dead Land
  • Author(s): Sara Paretsky
  • 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 Money changes hands in the middle of the night; by morning, buildings and parks have been replaced by billion-dollar projects.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....

Die Trying (Jack Reacher 2)

Die Trying (Jack Reacher 2)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • 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...

Don’t You Cry

Don’t You Cry
  • 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,...

Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • 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...

Hollow Fires

Hollow Fires
  • Author(s): Samira Ahmed
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. One thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal bias affect the story: but that changes the...

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
  • Author(s): Erika L Sánchez
  • 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...

Identity: Lost

Identity: Lost
  • Author(s): Pascal Marco
  • 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....

Infinite

Infinite
  • Author(s): Brian Freeman
  • 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...

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