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If Looks Could Kill

If Looks Could Kill
  • Author(s): Kate White
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman’s magazine. Smart and savvy, she’s got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it’s murder. Bailey’s in bed...

In Glass Houses

In Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Edel Coffey
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Twenty years ago, Eddie’s career as a journalist was destroyed by the Juliet Fox case. Juliet was young and beautiful, born into the privileged world of the Manhattan elite. Pulled into their orbit by her investigation, Eddie discovered how...

Libby and the Manhattan Mystery

Libby and the Manhattan Mystery
  • Author(s): Becka Moor (Illustrator), Jo Clarke
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

3: The Travelling School Mysteries The travelling school arrives in New York, and Libby and her friends find themselves organising a charity auction alongside Hollywood star Eloise Fitzwilliam. But something isn’t right. Why is Eloise’s friend Count Alvarez acting...

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...

Manhattan Ember

Manhattan Ember
  • Author(s): Olive Collins
  • Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Marguerite Kelley’s childhood home was dominated by the disappearance of her uncle who vanished into thin air. On a windy morning in November 1905, she is the first to hear about the discovery of a skeleton tucked under the...

Manhunting in Manhattan

Manhunting in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Amy Killingbeck, Saoirse Cussane
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finding herself single in her forties after making the move to New York, or more accurately, suburban New York, Lilith feels trapped. This wasn’t the life she’d envisaged for herself. … Until something started to shift. With a newly...

Minor Black Figures

Minor Black Figures
  • Author(s): Brandon Taylor
  • Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and...

Miracle On 34th Street

Miracle On 34th Street
  • Author(s): Valentine Davies
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1990s

The lives of three people are changed by an old man who insists that he is Santa Claus.

Missing White Woman

Missing White Woman
  • Author(s): Kellye Garrett
  • Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Beautiful. Blonde. Missing. Murdered. It was supposed to be a romantic getaway to New York City. Breanna’s new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything – the train tickets, the sightseeing itinerary, the four-story Jersey City rowhouse with the gorgeous...

Murder in Chelsea

Murder in Chelsea
  • Author(s): Victoria Thompson
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope’s Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine’s nursemaid, now acting on behalf of...

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