When novelist Guy Ableman marries the alluring Vanessa, her equally alluring mother Poppy comes with the package. In a veritable tizzy, Guy considers a bold path--one that might just spark his greatest novel yet.
Novelists
- Author:Jacobson, HowardSummary:
- Author:Shaffer, Meg.Summary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will...
- Author:Raabe, Melanie, Taylor, ImogenSummary:
The famous novelist Linda Conrads, 38, is a mystery to her fans and the media. She hasn’t set foot over the threshold of her villa on Lake Starnberg for more than eleven years, and yet she’s extremely successful. Her life, though...
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father find themselves at the home of a renowned surgeon after fleeing a forest fire. But when the doctor is found dead in his study, Queen realizes that they might have escaped the fire, but they'...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
For years Frederick Lowell has quietly managed the estate of the revered novelist Edward Goodwin. Though the author of only one novel, that book has gone on to sell hundreds of millions of copies, keeping Lowell comfortable as well as...
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
Martha Lawrence came to Ellery Queen claiming that her husband's jealousy was putting her in danger. But did the man have grounds for his rage? When unsigned letters begin to arrive, Ellery is dragged all over New York in search of the...
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, The Right Time is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one's passion and succeeding beyond one's wildest dreams. Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra...
- Author:Ogawa, YōkoSummary:
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds,...
- Author:Manning, KirstySummary:
From Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II set historical novel about murder, secrets, and survival. A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past... Fresne Prison, 1940: A former...
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. Ellery Queen, amateur sleuth, insists that he and his father take up the case. As victims turn up all over the world--all killed in the same manner--...
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
Debonair detective Ellery Queen is on the case of a topsy-turvy murder. A mysterious visitor is found dead in the anteroom of Mandarin Press and the room has been literally turned upside down. Queen must tread lightly, for walking...
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and...
- Author:Fielding, KimSummary:
Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work. But when he finally gathers the courage to...
- Author:Moscovitch, HannahSummary:
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny. Jon, a star professor and author, is racked...
- Author:Mangan, ChristineSummary:
It's 1966 and Frankie Croy retreats to her friend's vacant palazzo in Venice. Years have passed since the initial success of Frankie's debut novel and she has spent her career trying to live up to the expectations. Now,...
- Author:McDonald, CraigSummary:
Someone is murdering literary magazine editors, so Gertrude Stein assigns Hector Lassiter, fellow mystery writer Brinke Devlin, and Hector's dear friend Papa Hemingway to track down the killer. While the romance smolders between Hector...
- Author:Hoover, ColleenSummary:
Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move....
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children's book author with a case of writer's block and an arrogant novelist who have to set...
- Author:Moriarty, LianeSummary:
Neuf parfaits étrangers en quête de sérénité. Une station thermale de rêve. Dix jours de cure pour tout changer... Neuf citadins stressés, prêts pour un break dans une sublime station thermale. Le Tranquillum House leur propose...
- Author:McLeod, ChrisSummary:
Centres around Watt, a writer in middle-aged decline, who has a talent for procrastination and inaction. The story unfolds like a psychological thriller, carefully peeling back the layers of Watt's life, revealing clues. As the police,...