- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): The past until the 1970s
Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado–the Centennial State–is manifested through its people:...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century looking back
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
Margot Baumann has left school to work in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Margot is shielded from the camp’s brutality, as she has...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian era
Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin’s estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life....
- Location(s): Scotland, Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts is immediate… and the discovery of her burnt-out car in remote woodland to the south of Edinburgh sets off a desperate search...
Natural Causes (Inspector McLean 1)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly...
21st Birthday (Women’s Murder Club 21)
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter Tara and baby granddaughter Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The prime suspect is Tara’s schoolteacher husband,...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city’s police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross...
- Location(s): The Hamptons
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney,...
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