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- 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...
- 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...
- 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 Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
- 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...
- 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,...