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The Jazz Bird

The Jazz Bird
  • Author(s): Craig Holden
  • Location(s): Cincinnati
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1927

Cincinnati, 1927: a sensational murder trial captivates the nation. At stake: the lives of three men. There’s the defendant, lawyer, and legendary bootlegger George Remus, whose crime of passion may seal his fate. Against him is the ambitious son...

The Last Place You Look

The Last Place You Look
  • Author(s): Kristen Lepionka
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager, disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton – black and from the wrong side of the tracks – was...

The Long Quiche Goodbye

The Long Quiche Goodbye
  • Author(s): Avery Aames
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Welcome to the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette. Or as it’s more commonly known by the residents of small-town Providence, Ohio-the Cheese Shop. Proprietor Charlotte Bessette has prepared a delightful sampling of bold Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, delicious tortes of...

The Many Meanings of Meilan

The Many Meanings of Meilan
  • Author(s): Andrea Wang
  • Location(s): Boston, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston’s Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant...

The Summer that Melted Everything

The Summer that Melted Everything
  • Author(s): Tiffany McDaniel
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1984

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil...

The Weird Sisters

The Weird Sisters
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

This is the “delightful” (“People”) “New York Times” bestseller that’s earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don’t happen to like each other very much… Three...

The Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers
  • Author(s): David McCullough
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): pre 1903

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North...

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
  • Author(s): Jeannie Vanasco
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 60 years ago

Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her....

Wench

Wench
  • Author(s): Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): pre American Civil War

Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s enchanting and unforgettable novel, based on little-known fact, combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World as it tells the story of four black...

What You Want to See

What You Want to See
  • Author(s): Kristen Lepionka
  • Location(s): Columbus
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

‘Roxane with one n’ is back, in the thrilling follow-up to the hit-debut The Last Place You Look. Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. When she takes on...

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