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Broken Places

Broken Places
  • Author(s): Tracy Clark
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Cass Raines Mystery Book 1) When Cass Raines took a bullet in the line of duty, it wasn’t injury that saw her quit the police but the cover up for an incompetent colleague that followed. Now, the Chicago...

Don’t You Cry

Don’t You Cry
  • 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,...

Saving Ruby King

Saving Ruby King
  • Author(s): Catherine Adel West
  • Location(s): South Side (Chicago)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her...

The Silent Wife

The Silent Wife
  • Author(s): A S A Harrison
  • 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...

The State We’re In

The State We’re In
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What are the odds that the stranger sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they appear to be your opposite in every way. She’s a life-long optimist, looking for her soul...

Chicago

Chicago
  • Author(s): Alaa al Aswany
  • 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...

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
  • Author(s): Amy Jo Cousins
  • 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...

Airport

Airport
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • 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.

The Lily Garden

The Lily Garden
  • Author(s): Barbara Josselsohn
  • 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...

Children Below Us: Child Trafficking

Children Below Us:  Child Trafficking
  • Author(s): Blair London
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Claire and her brother Owen were staying at parents’ old home. Parents were in nursing home, but house hadn’t been sold yet and had most of the furnishings. However, house had been vacant of occupants for quite some time....

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