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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...

Model Under Cover: Stolen with Style

Model Under Cover: Stolen with Style
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hold on to your handbags and buckle up your heels – Axelle Anderson, undercover model, is back. When it comes to glamorous crimes of fashion, Axelle’s discovered that modelling is the perfect cover for a wannabe detective. So when...

Mr. Either/Or

Mr. Either/Or
  • Author(s): Aaron Poochigian
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or is an ingenious debut, a verse novel melding American mythology, noir thriller, and classical epic into gritty rhythms, foreboding overtones, and groovy jams surrounding the reader in a surreal atmosphere. Imagine Byron’s Don Juan on...

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...

Murder on Lexington Avenue

Murder on Lexington Avenue
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Poppy Denby Investigates Book 3 New York, 1921. Poppy Denby, star reporter for the Daily Globe is ready to set sail for a new adventure across the pond and join her boss for a stint at The New York...

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...

My Fair Frauds

My Fair Frauds
  • Author(s): Jennifer Thorne, Lee Kelly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1884

A high society fraud and a scrappy swindler team up to take down Gilded Age New York in this tale of intrigue, drama, and female friendship. The Grand Duchess Marie Charlotte Antonie of Würrtemberg–a turmoil-plagued Germanic nation with closely...

My Favourite Mistake

My Favourite Mistake
  • Author(s): Marian Keyes
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna,...

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