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- Location(s): Cincinnati
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three generations of women—and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane,...
- Location(s): Cleveland
- Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
If he can control her mind… Government operative David Jenkins is skilled at controlling his emotions. Feelings are lethal when your job is to infiltrate minds, erase and implant thoughts, and guard the nation’s intellectual capital. But even he...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man...
No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
Pennsylvania Dutch inn owner/amateur sleuth Magdalena Yoder finds out that her second cousin twice removed is truly lactose intolerant when he’s discovered dead in a tank of milk. But when she heads to Ohio for the funeral, she lands...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
To Hell with high school! The American education system is turned inside out when a frustrated teacher incites his students to stage an uprising. In a poor suburban community in southern Ohio, Dieter Vogel is a failing English teacher...
- Location(s): Ohio, Lorain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author’s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his ‘prayer log’. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial...