...books set in NY
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year’s Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of NY society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne’er-do-well and a single-minded widow.
Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner
Bonded by their shared status as children of Russian émigrés living in Brighton Beach, Vaclav and Lena team up as aspiring magicians when Lena’s abusive domestic situation prompts her rescue by Vaclav’s mother.
The Submission by Amy Waldman
Selected for a jury that must choose an appropriate memorial for September 11 victims, Claire Harwell struggles to navigate a media firestorm when the winning designer is revealed as an enigmatic Muslim-American.
Tabloid City by Pete Hamill
When a wealthy socialite and her secretary are found murdered in a stately West Village townhouse, a flurry of seemingly unrelated people spring into action.
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stephanie Pintoff
A detective and several criminologists track a madman from the Palisades to the Bowery in this thriller set in 1905 NY.
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Leaving her home in post WW II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacy discovers a new romance in America with a charming blonde Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.
Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein
ADA Alex Cooper and her crew are drawn into the strange and privileged world of rich collectors, eccentric library trustees, and the treasures of the great New York Public Library after a librarian disappears and a woman's corpse turns up in the missing librarian's abandoned apartment. |