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A Novel
by Dennis Lehane
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by Mary McGarry Morris
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsNora Hammond is a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair, and a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force.
by Howard Blum
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsSimultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a cant-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
by Michael Lowenthal
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsCharity Girl examines one of the darkest periods in our history, when patriotic fervor and fear led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government went on a moral and medical campaign, quarantining and incarcerating young women who were thought to have venereal diseases. They were called charity girls
by Michael Connelly
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsMore than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?
by T Jefferson Parker
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsFollowing an accident, homicide detective Robbie Brownlaw, develops synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to him, he see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. When a sergeant in the Professional Standards Unit is found dead, ...
by Myla Goldberg
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsThrough narrative, authentic newspaper clippings, and fictional correspondence, the author of Bee Season offers an intimate view of the life of Lydia Kilkenny, a shop clerk and daughter of Irish immigrants in South Boston in the early 20th century.'
by Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsA riveting epic crime story that is also a book about Boston and Irish America.
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