Catalog Search Results
Find reading recommendations, read-alikes, discussion guides, "If You're a Fan Of" book lists, and more. Search by keyword and reading level (Lexile).
NoveList K-8: Children's fiction only.
NoveList: Fiction only.
NoveList Plus: Includes audiobooks and nonfiction books.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wealth has its dangers... There are disadvantages to being an heiress, as Eliza Martin knows well. Fortune hunters flock to her, acquaintances lie and pander, and lately, someone is engineering " accidents" to propel her to the altar. But Eliza will not be bullied, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. All she needs is a man to infiltrate her assemblage of suitors and find the culprit. Someone not easily noticed; a proficient dancer, quiet,...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
4) Lethal white
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This "heartwarming" Regency romance about a widow who finds forbidden passion is a "lively and surprising read" from a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
Marry the local vicar—a stodgy man with six impossible children. Never! Deborah Percival is determined to discover passion in a man's arms, not duty in a dull marriage. And when she becomes stranded at a countryside inn, tantalizing Anthony Aldercy,...
Marry the local vicar—a stodgy man with six impossible children. Never! Deborah Percival is determined to discover passion in a man's arms, not duty in a dull marriage. And when she becomes stranded at a countryside inn, tantalizing Anthony Aldercy,...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London . . .Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she doesn't know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in the Berkshires with her two beloved dogs. But behind this peaceful exterior is a dark, painful past. As a child raised by an emotionally distant father, Sabrina rarely felt love. And as an adult, her marriage twisted into an abusive relationship from which she had to escape. Sabrina channeled that fear into...
Author
Series
Corduroy mansions volume 1
Language
English
Description
In London's Pimlico neighborhood lies a tenement described in architectural guides as "a building of no interest whatsoever". But the residents of Corduroy Mansions, including a literary agent, a wine merchant, a thoroughly unpleasant member of Parliament, and a vegetarian dog, are a rather fascinating lot.
10) Dark corners
Author
Language
English
Description
"When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular"--
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor...
12) Private London
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. Carter...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers." --Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
Author
Series
William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 19
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 19
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 19
Language
English
Description
England, 1865. Hester Monk, the wife of William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, questions the finances of a London church whose members' hard-earned charitable gifts appear to go into the pocket of charismatic preacher Abel Taft. Taft is accused of extortion and brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone, newly appointed a judge, is chosen to preside over the trial. Taft's guilt seems clear, until a last-minute witness completely undermines the...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars. Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu is called to [the banks of the Thames] after a tour guide makes a shocking discovery, one that will unearth a decades-old crime linked to the unsolved murder of three people in a grand Chelsea mansion thirty years before. In another part of the city, Rachel Rimmer receives shocking news as well. Her husband, away on business in the south of France, has been found murdered. The police demand she immediately come to...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It's December, and she's taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
In WISCAT Wisconsin Resource Sharing
Can't find what you're looking for? Search WISCAT Wisconsin Resource Sharing to search libraries outside our area. Contact your local library to place a request.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a purchase. Submit Request