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The Pearl Diver

The Pearl Diver
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The seventh book in Sujata Massey’s Agatha and Macavity Award-winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start...

The Rooster Bar

The Rooster Bar
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

Three law school students in Washington DC uncover a web of financial interests linked to one sinister man. He runs the “diploma mill” college they all attend, the loans companies they accrue debt with, and parts of the banking...

The Samurai’s Daughter

The Samurai’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A new crime-thriller full of suspense from Sujata Massey, the acclaimed author of The Bride’s Kimono and The Floating Girl. Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project tracing the story...

The Secrets We Kept

The Secrets We Kept
  • Author(s): Lara Prescott
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it....

The Senator’s Wife

The Senator’s Wife
  • Author(s): Liv Constantine
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, DC philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they’re...

The Situation Room

The Situation Room
  • Author(s): George Stephanopoulos
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Weekand co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their...

The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army

The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
  • Author(s): Glen Craney
  • Location(s): France, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

In 1932, a charismatic hobo led 20,000 jobless American WWI veterans into Washington, D.C., only to be driven out of the city with tanks and gas. The novel unfolds the events that led to this confrontation through the experiences...

Transfer of Power

Transfer of Power
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): Modern

On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the...

White Houses

White Houses
  • Author(s): Amy Bloom
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok – Hick to friends – a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic,...

Without Fail (Jack Reacher 6)

Without Fail (Jack Reacher 6)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman...

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