By Anne Holt
Series Hanne Wilhelmsen Novels
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest (From the Publisher).”

By Amanda Hodgkinson

“Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past (From the Publisher).”

By Donna Leon
Series Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“With her 18th stellar entry in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Leon continues to live up to the increasingly high standards set by each novel. Her latest brings the Venetian policeman into intertwining cases involving dangerous environmental hazards: mounting trash heaps, air & water pollution (Library Journal Review).”

By Anne Perry
Series William Monk Novels

When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Alberto Moravia

A thirteen-year-old boy, on vacation at a Tuscan seaside resort, joins a local group of young toughs and struggles to overcome his troubling attachment to his beautiful widowed mother.

By Erich Maria Remarque
With Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 8, 2014. 7:30 PM.

The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war.

By Darragh McKeon
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Follows the lives of several people on the eve of the Chernobyl disaster, including a nine-year-old piano prodigy, a leading surgeon with a failing marriage, and a young Ukrainian villager who wakes to find his cattle bleeding from their ears.

By Ben H. Winters

When a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society's high-tech lifestyle, the classic love story's heroes--Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky--must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen.

By Leo Tolstoy
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A translation of the classic Russian novel tells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia.

By Penny Vincenzi
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families (From the Publisher).”

By Julian Barnes

Chronicles the lives of two boys - one who is forgotten by history, and one who becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective - as they pursue their separate destinies until they meet in a remarkable alliance.

By Helen MacInnes

A British officer pretending to be French tries to find the Nazi plans for resisting invasion off the coast of France during World War II.

By Jamie O'Neill

In a story set against the backdrop of Dublin in 1915, two boys who meet at the local swimming hole plan to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter, but their plans coincide with the Easter uprising--a historic rebellion that changes their lives.

By Nancy Atherton

Summoned from her latest dreadful temp job by her lawyers, Lori Shephard discovers that Aunt Dimity--her mother's favorite bedtime story heroine--was a real person who has left her millions and the challenge to solve an eerie mystery.

By Amy Bloom
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.

By Jo Nesbø
Series Detective Harry Hole series
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.

By Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2018. 1:30 PM.

In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.

By Jess Walter
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 28, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

By Sebastian Faulks

A young English soldier finds a new love interest when he stays with a family in Northern France.

Became the TV Mini-Series: Birdsong

By Piero degli Antoni
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Two elderly survivors of Auschwitz recall the harrowing night when they and eight other prisoners were ordered to pick which of their number would be executed at dawn, a choice marked by shocking revelations and wrenching debates (From the Publisher).”

By Desmond MacNamara

In the tradition of Flann O'Brien's comic Irish extravaganzas, Desmond MacNamara's novel is a hilarious excursion into Irish history and literature. A gentleman named Mountmellik and his servant MacGilla escape from the Limbo where characters from unfinished literary works are trapped, and enjoy life on Earth so much that they summon from Limbo other literary characters: a young woman named Loreto Amargamente (from an unfinished story by F. Scott Fitzgerald), an Irish maiden named Liadin (from George Moore's unrealized historical novel), and, most terrifying, the eight-feet-tall Eevell of Craglee, Queen of the Munster Hosts of Fairy. These five hatch a scheme by which they can spring more characters from literary Limbo and, by finishing and publishing their stories, send them to Parnassus, all the while holding the author captive so that they themselves won't be forced to go. But during a bizarre climax, the author escapes and sends this novel to his publisher, immortalizing them against their will.

By Helen Fielding
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

The daily chronicle of a 30-something single English woman who is convinced her life would be perfect if she could lose weight, stop smoking and develop "Inner Poise."

By Hilary Mantel
Series Wolf Hall Trilogy
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell as Anne and her powerful family fight back while she is on trial for adultery and treason (From the Publisher).”

By Katrine Engberg
Series Korner & Werner Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A sequel to The Tenant finds detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner racing to solve a series of brutal murders targeting vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital.

By André Aciman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.

By Karin Fossum
Series Inspector Sejer novels

Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.

By Voltaire

The story of Candide, a naive youth who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live, is accompanied by four other stories.

By Robert Galbraith
Series Cormoran Strike Novels

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg, and Comoran Strike must look to his past to determine who is behind the horrid parcel.

By Steven Galloway

While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty–two friends and neighbors, a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.

By Tom Rob Smith
Series Leo Demidov
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

By Peter Robinson
Series Inspector Alan Banks Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“After the body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line with a large amount of money in his pocket, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks suspects that the victim’s death may be connected to his past at a university that was a hot bed of political activism (From the Publisher).”

By Joanne Harris
Series Chocolat Trilogy

“When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne's confections (From the Publisher).”

By David Benioff
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard–to–find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

By Anthony Marra
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 11, 2014. 7:30 PM.

“In December 2004 in a rural village in Chechnya, failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized eight-year-old daughter of a man abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.” (From the Publisher)

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series Corduroy Mansions
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“While a middle-aged wine merchant tries to emancipate his reluctant adult son from their crumbling Pimlico home, a hated Parliament member incites the disgust of his biography-writing mother and long-suffering literary agent girlfriend (From the Publisher).” 

By Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Series Forbidden Iceland Mysteries #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she's no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues S var and Horour, commence an uneasy investigation, which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman's past that continues to reverberate in the present day. But as Elma and her team make a series of discoveries, they bring to light a host of long-hidden crimes that shake the entire community. Sifting through the rubble of the townspeople's shattered memories, they have to dodge increasingly serious threats, and find justice ... before it's too late.

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A desperate and impoverished student named Raskolnikov commits a murder, thinking he is above moral law, but eventually must confront his inner mind and consequences. This is an intense psychological study, terrifying murder mystery, and fascinating detective thriller, instilled with philosophical, religious and social commentary.

By J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith
Series Cormoran Strike Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, June 13, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel’s suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits.

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Arthritic and immobilized, Hercule Poirot takes up his last case, relying on his old friend Captain Hastings to be his eyes and ears as he hunts down the slipperiest criminal of his career.

By David Mark
Series Aector McAvoy Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Investigating a series of suspicious deaths and discovering that each victim was the sole survivor of a tragedy, Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy of the northern England port of Hull struggles to balance the demands of the case with the needs of his beloved family.

By Nora Roberts
Series The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“American Iona Sheehan searches for her Irish ancestors, the O’Dwyers, to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse, and she falls head over heels for Boyle McGrath, the owner of a local stable (From the Publisher).”

By Johan Theorin

Winner of Sweden’s best crime novel award. On an idyllic island off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh.

By Arthur Koestler

During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.

By Ken Bruen
Series Jack Taylor Mysteries
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

In Bruen's eighth Jack Taylor novel, the Galway PI clashes with Satan himself--or so all the clues scream.

By Herman Koch
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series Corduroy Mansions Novels
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Terence Moongrove’s estate is turned upside down by the cosmological experiments of two New Age operators, while literary agent Barbara Ragg takes on a companion of the Abominable Snowman and Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay is recruited by MI6.

By Jens Lapidus

Follows encounters between a vengeful escaped drug dealer, a money-strapped student, and a disenchanted mafia thug whose efforts to establish places for themselves are complicated by dangerous elements on both sides of the law.

By Emma Healey
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

When Maud, an aging grandmother who is slowly losing her memory, is convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, she becomes obsessed with saving her beloved friend despite the fact that no one believes her.

By Sandor Marai

Following a forty–one year separation, two men reunite in a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains to share stories and accusations touching on their lives and that of a third person, the now–dead lady of the castle.