Category: adult
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The Highlander’s Touch
By Karen Marie Moning Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Dell, c2000, 2007 Genres: Romance, paranormal romance, fantasy, time travel fantasy, historical fiction Series: The Highlander romances; 3 ISBN: 9780440236528 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 356 Setting: Cincinnati, Ohio and Scotland Time period: Contemporary and 1314 Plot summary: Lisa Stone works two jobs to…
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Caught Stealing
By Charlie Huston Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ballantine Books, 2004 Genres: Thriller, crime thriller, suspense Series: Hank Thompson series; 1 ISBN: 9780345464774 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 240 Setting: Lower East Side, NYC (Manhattan) Time period: 2002 or 2003 Plot summary: Hank Thompson has had a really bad day which has stretched…
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Fool Moon
By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2001 Genre: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal Series: The Dresden Files; 2 ISBN: 9780451458124 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 342 Setting: Chicago, IL and outskirts (Chicagoland) Time period: Fall 2000 Plot summary: Work has been slow for Harry Dresden, the…
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Dead to the World
By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, c2004, 2005 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, paranormal romance, romance, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 4 ISBN: 9780441012183 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 291 (310 including an excerpt from the next book – Dead as a Doornail) Setting:…
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson; translated by Reg Keelan Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Vintage Books, c2008, 2009 Genre: Thriller, mystery, suspense Series: Millennium trilogy; 1 ISBN: 9780307473479 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 644 Setting: Stockholm, Hedestad & Hedeby Island, Sweden Time period: around 2003-2004 Plot summary: When Mikael Blomkvist, a financial journalist, is recently…
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Boneshaker
By Cherie Priest Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Tor, 2009 Genres: Fantasy, steampunk, horror, science fiction, adventure ISBN: 9780765318411 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 416 Setting: Seattle, WA Time period: 1880 Plot summary: In an alternate history, the Klondike gold rush began a few decades earlier and brought huge numbers of people to…
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Water Witches
By Chris Bohjalian Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995, 1997 Genre: General fiction, eco-fiction Series: Hardscrabble Books –fiction of New England published by University Press of New England ISBN: 9780684826127 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 340 Setting: Central Vermont Time period: mid 1990s Plot summary: Scott Winston works as a…
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My Sister’s Keeper
By Jodi Picoult Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Pocket Books, c2004, 2009 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9781439157268 Intended audience: Adult (but has won many awards for adult fiction for young adults, including a 2005 Alex Award and 2006 Heartland Award) Number of pages: 500 Setting: Providence, Rhode Island Time period: 1990- 2010 Plot summary:…
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