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- Location(s): Chicago, Illinois
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Era(s): Modern
A chilling psychological thriller portraying the disintegration of a relationship down to the deadliest point when murdering your husband suddenly makes perfect sense. Todd Gilbert and Jodi Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They’ve been together...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an atheistic anti-establishment American professor of the sixties...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Charles “Cash” Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago’s inner-city kids. He’s adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Only available second hand, but still a great novel set at O’Hare aiport. It is an intense, and detailed look at a few people’s lives over a period of a few hours – airport staff, airline crews, passengers, relatives.
- Location(s): Chicago, Adirondacks
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
She held the letter that she had found in the garden, and noticed the distinctive curls of her father’s handwriting etched on the worn paper. Her life had already been turned upside down by one family secret, would his...