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House Of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Homicide Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD) (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series)

House Of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Homicide Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD) (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

“Cohen’s style is not unlike that found in novels by authors such as Dan Brown, or Tom Clancy, or even the late Michael Crichton.” Gary Sorkin for Pacific Book Review. The head of one of the largest investment banking...

In the Midst of Winter

In the Midst of Winter
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his...

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....

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...

My Coney Island Baby

My Coney Island Baby
  • Author(s): Billy O'Callaghan
  • Location(s): Coney Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendez-vous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven. These precious, hidden hours are...

Nasty Cutter

Nasty Cutter
  • Author(s): Tim O'Mara
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Danger gets a little too close to home for ex-cop Raymond Donne …When his father’s former law partner, Harry Stover, is murdered while being celebrated as Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s “Man of the Year,” ex-cop turned schoolteacher Raymond Donne fights his...

Red at the Bone

Red at the Bone
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Woodson
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Comtemporary

“…a dazzling portrait of Brooklyn..” Red Magazine An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of ANOTHER BROOKLYN and BROWN GIRL DREAMING. Two families...

Revolution

Revolution
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern, French Revolution (18th century)

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying...

Seven Days in June

Seven Days in June
  • Author(s): Tia Williams
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again… Eva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is...

Shadowshaper

Shadowshaper
  • Author(s): Daniel José Older
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra’s near-comatose abuelo begins to...

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