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- Location(s): Wisconsin, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th century (second half)
All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power. Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less to a President whose politics she doesn’t believe in. On perhaps the most...
And Brother It’s Starting to Rain
- Location(s): Thailand, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
Inspector Samuel Tay has retired from Singapore CID so he’s no longer actually a police inspector. It wasn’t entirely his idea, but that’s another story. John August is a guy who has saved Tay’s butt more than once over...
- Location(s): Georgetown
- Genre(s): Thriller, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Conteporaryy
A young gay man in a perfect marriage will do anything to keep a dangerous indiscretion from his loving husband. Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner...
Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow...
- Location(s): Virginia, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
FBI Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith, last seen in Backfire, has been recruited by Dillon Savich to join his unit in Washington, D.C. Savich sees something special in Hammersmith, an almost preternatural instinct for tracking criminals. While on his way...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week, punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner. Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoking-hot, hilarious novel about the perils of online dating. “There’s got to be an easier way than dating. I want the shortcut. I just...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Early morning, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former U.S. Senator, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn’t know, but she thinks she knows who’s involved, and why. And that she’s next....
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Guthrie Center, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 2010
Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the oligarchs of Wall Street, doctors and others in the pharmaceutical research profession having significant conflicts of...
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