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The Switch

The Switch
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): Boston, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong laptop from security. What he doesn’t know is that the owner is US senator Susan Robbins, and her laptop contains top secret files...

The Tattoo

The Tattoo
  • Author(s): Chris McKinney
  • Location(s): Oahu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal-the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and...

The Tilted World

The Tilted World
  • Author(s): Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1927

The stunning, epic new novel from Tom Franklin, the Gold Dagger Award winning author, writing with his wife, prize-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly

The Tin Roof Blowdown

The Tin Roof Blowdown
  • Author(s): James Lee Burke
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes. In...

The Unpassing

The Unpassing
  • Author(s): Chia-Chia Lin
  • Location(s): Alaska, Anchorage
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman,...

The Vanishing Half

The Vanishing Half
  • Author(s): Brit Bennett
  • Location(s): California, The American South
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

This one is sure to be one of 2020’s best and boldest by the author of The Mothers. Identical twin sisters Stella and Desiree are born in a small Southern community in the 1960s, when they decide to run away from...

The View From Lake Como

The View From Lake Como
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Carrara, Lake Como (NJ)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set on the glittering shores of Lake Como comes the new novel of love, second chances, and making your own fate, from the Sunday Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani Recently divorced, Jess Capodimonte Baratta is helping her Uncle Louie...

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood. The boys that once loved them from...

The Visionist

The Visionist
  • Author(s): Rachel Urquhart
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Era(s): 1842

Massachusetts, 1842. Fifteen-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to her family farm, killing her abusive father. With his fiery ghost at her heels, Polly and her young brother seek refuge in a local Shaker community – the City of Hope....

The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight
  • Author(s): Richard Madeley
  • Location(s): Boston, Florida Keys, New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Not until she was 16 did Stella Arnold learn the full truth about her father, how handsome, charming James turned out to be a cold-blooded, psychotic extortionist, racketeer and killer. Knowing now what her father was capable of, she...

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