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Lilith: Demon of the Night (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 3)

Lilith: Demon of the Night (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 3)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

When a man walks into a Catholic church just prior to the start of a funeral service, stuffs garlic into the deceased’s mouth and pumps a bullet into the corpse, NYPD Homicide Detective Louis Martelli is as puzzled as...

Lipstick Jungle

Lipstick Jungle
  • Author(s): Candace Bushnell
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The new novel that fans of the bestselling author have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career women who will do anything to stay at the top of their fields Victory Ford is the darling of the fashion...

Lock Every Door

Lock Every Door
  • Author(s): Riley Sager
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents. These are the only rules for Jules Larson’s new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile...

London, Can You Wait?

London, Can You Wait?
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Middleton
  • Location(s): London, Dublin, Manchester, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

Alex loves Mark. Mark loves Alex. But is love enough? Since moving to London from the US, twenty-four-year-old Alex Sinclair seems to have it all: a coveted job writing for the theatre, supportive friends, and the man of her...

Looker

Looker
  • Author(s): Laura Sims
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Have you ever wanted to steal someone else’s life? The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan has left her; she can’t have a baby. All she’s left with is Nathan’s old moggy, Cat. Who she doesn’t even like....

Love, Theodosia

Love, Theodosia
  • Author(s): Lori Anne Goldstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800

A Romeo & Juliet tale for Hamilton! fans. In post-American Revolution New York City, Theodosia Burr, a scholar with the skills of a socialite, is all about charming the right people on behalf of her father—Senator Aaron Burr, who...

Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize
  • Author(s): Margo Rabb
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this witty and whimsical story by award-winning author Margo Rabb, a sixteen-year-old girl is suspended from boarding school and sent to New York City, where she must take care of an unconventional woman entangled in a mystery. Lucy...

Lush Life

Lush Life
  • Author(s): Richard Price
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it’s residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death...

Luster

Luster
  • Author(s): Raven Leilani
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking...

Maeve in America

Maeve in America
  • Author(s): Maeve Higgins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A timely essay collection about life, love, and becoming an American from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old age of thirty-one,...

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