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Christmas in Austin

Christmas in Austin
  • Author(s): Benjamin Markovits
  • Location(s): Austin, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan wants to become a federal judge. Susie’s husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and (once-married) boss to...

Dollar Signs: Texas Lady Lawyer vs Boots King

Dollar Signs: Texas Lady Lawyer vs Boots King
  • Author(s): Manning Wolfe
  • Location(s): Austin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

MERIT BRIDGES, an attorney and widowed mother in Austin, Texas, works hard, drinks too much wine, and sleeps with younger men. When Merit goes after a shady corporation threatening her client, she encounters hired gun Boots King. His charge...

Loving Country: An English Girl in Austin TX

Loving Country: An English Girl in Austin TX
  • Author(s): Julian Edge
  • Location(s): Austin
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ROMANTIC TALE OF GUITARS, FAST CARS AND FALSE ACCOUNTS Jessica Fleet flies in from Manchester, England to Austin, Texas for the Country Music trip of her dreams. What she does not need right now is another over-protective man...

The End of Summer

The End of Summer
  • Author(s): Irving Munro
  • Location(s): Austin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Father and son detectives Bill and Tommy Ross work for the Travis County police cold case unit in Austin, Texas. In 2005 in the backyard of a vacant home in Austin, a woman was found lying on a recliner...

The Lifeguards

The Lifeguards
  • Author(s): Amanda Eyre Ward
  • Location(s): Austin, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): currentt

“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”–Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect–but viciously protective–mothers and...

The Slip

The Slip
  • Author(s): Lucas Schaefer
  • Location(s): Austin, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Austin, Texas: It’s the summer of 1998, and there’s a new face on the scene at Terry Tucker’s Boxing Gym. Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein has never felt comfortable in his own skin, but under the tutelage of a swaggering, Haitian-born...

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