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- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Homeland Security agent, Kit Steel, is committed to avenge terrorism. And she’s after the blood of her nemesis, one of world’s most ruthless and dangerous criminals, Vincente Carpio. He has the blood of her husband and young son on...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
The New York Times’s reviewer wrote: ‘Love is hard enough to write about, but a parent’s love for a child is almost inexpressible in its universality and in the uneventfulness of its nature under ordinary circumstances. When Alex disappears,...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post WW1 onwards
This book is set primarily in Boston, post WW1. It tells the epic story of two families, one white, one black, both trying to find their way through a new order, interweaving in real life people and events. A...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
David Fine is not the kind of guy to go missing. Or so his father tells PI Jonah Geller. A brilliant young surgeon-in-training, devout, devoted to his parents–last seen 2 weeks ago leaving the Boston hospital where he worked....
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
An anthology of stories under the editorship of Dennis Lehane, set in Boston. Some noir, some mystery ….lots of locations are mentioned….
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th Century/Early 20th
Brighton, suburb of Boston, 1975: a Boston neighbourhood where racial tensions run high and gangs jostle for dominance in the trades that matter – drugrunning, book-keeping and theft. Fifteen-year-old Kevin Pearce knows his best hope is to get the...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mark thinks he has found The One in college. When Raquel abruptly takes off for Los Angeles to become a rock star, Mark tries to be happy for her-until ROCK-L’s first single sweeps the airwaves-a song about Mark’s stamina...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in suburban Boston. A 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, has been stabbed to death in the woods near the local school, and it is Andy’s son, Jacob, who is the one who’s been...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships : one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate...