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The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City
  • Author(s): Erik Larson
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The story is of Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and it is fascinating because the fair ties together the past and the future when it comes to business, politics, architecture, science and culture.

The Devil’s Highway

The Devil’s Highway
  • Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Location(s): Arizona, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil’s Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds.

The Divorcées

The Divorcées
  • Author(s): Rowan Beaird
  • Location(s): Reno
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce – except in...

The Dog of the South

The Dog of the South
  • Author(s): Charles Portis
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray’s cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they’ve gone. He takes off...

The Double

The Double
  • Author(s): George Pelecanos
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items – the kind of items the owners can’t go to the police about. This...

The Drop

The Drop
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be water-tight. Pell’s DNA was found on the victim – but he was only eight years old at the time. This...

The Echo Maker

The Echo Maker
  • Author(s): Richard Powers
  • Location(s): Kearney, Nebraska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter’s truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their home town to look after him. But when he finally awakes from...

The Ex

The Ex
  • Author(s): Alafair Burke
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this breakout standalone thriller in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, William Landay and Paula Hawkins, a lawyer agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been accused of murder-but begins to suspect that she is the one being...

The Final Warning

The Final Warning
  • Author(s): Peter Isdell-Carpenter
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Final Warning is an arresting and timely contemporary thriller from a master story-teller. Steeped in conspiracy, diverse characters and an incredibly deft knowledge of American consciousness, it is at times disturbing, at others heart-warming, at times light-hearted and...

The Fragile Ones

The Fragile Ones
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chase
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective Katie Scott is called to one of the...

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