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First Novels by Popular Authors

Jeffrey Archer, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.
Four strangers—an Oxford don, a physician, an art dealer and a lord—who lost money to a con man join together to exact revenge.

Elizabeth Berg, Durable Goods.
Since her mother’s death, a 12-year-old girl has lived on an Army base with her increasingly abusive father until her older sister decides to run away.

Maeve Binchy, Light a Penny Candle.
During World War II, and English girl is sent to  live with a family in Ireland and forms a lasting friendship with a girl her age.

T.C. Boyle, Water Music.
The parallel adventures of petty crook Ned Rise and famed explorer Mungo Park who meet in the heart of Africa on a quest for the source of the Niger.

Dan Brown, Digital Fortress.
A cryptographer tries to crack a code that could cripple U.S. intelligence while her boyfriend hunts down the decryption key.

Jim Butcher, Storm Front. Paperback Science Fiction
Chicago Wizard Harry Dresden helps police investigate a bizarre double murder that has supernatural overtones.

Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga. Paperback Science Fiction
Jason Worthing takes a drug that increases his life span and is sent into space with human embryos, supplies, and teaching robots in order to colonize a planet and perpetuate the human species. (Revised edition of the out-of-print first novel Hot Sleep.)

Lee Child, The Killing Floor.
Ex-Army MP Jack Reacher finds himself arrested for murder in a small Georgia town and is surprised to learn the victim is his brother.

Mary Higgins Clark, Mount Vernon Love Story.
A story of the marriage of George and Martha Washington.

Catherine Coulter, The Countess. Paperback Romance
A Gothic romance in which a woman marries an older man then falls in love with his nephew. (Originally published as The Autumn Countess.)

Jennifer Crusie, Manhunting.
A successful career woman who’s had three failed engagements enacts a business plan to find a man at a resort but is drawn to the handyman.

Clive Cussler, The Mediterranean Caper. Paperback Fiction
In the Aegean Sea, Dirk Pitt stops a World War I fighter plane attacking an air force base, hunts a saboteur, and battles a ruthless drug smuggler.

Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat. Paperback Fiction
A video store clerk is convinced that an old man’s murder is related to a crime movie he kept renting which was based on a real unsolved bank heist.

Vince Flynn, Term Limits.
A freshman Congressman thinks he knows who’s behind the assassinations of corrupt politicians.

Julie Garwood, Gentle Warrior. Paperback Romance
In medieval England, a lady is driven from her ancestral castle after her family is massacred and returns disguised as a peasant to find that a baron has routed the murderers.

John Grisham, A Time to Kill.
A Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men who raped his daughter.

Alice Hoffman, Property Of.
A young woman becomes involved with a gang leader despite her feelings of contempt for the gang’s female followers.

Stephen Hunter, The Master Sniper.
In the spring of 1945, an American intelligence agent tries to discover the target of a Nazi sniper with a powerful and accurate new weapon.

Greg Iles, Spandau Phoenix.
A secret diary found at Spandau prison after the apparent suicide of Rudolph Hess raises questions about his identity and his flight to Britain in 1941.

John Irving, Setting Free the Bears.
In 1967, two university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo with both comic and gruesome consequences.

Stephen King, Carrie.
A shy high school girl uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on the students who tease her.

John Le Carre, Call for the Dead.
George Smiley is looking forward to retirement when a Foreign Office clerk apparently commits suicide under suspicious circumstances.

Debbie Macomber, The Matchmakers. Paperback Romance
A single mother and a former football player agree to go on a date at the request of their kids.

Phillip Margolin, Heartstone. Paperback Fiction
A woman who may hold to key to the brutal murders of a pair of young lovers undergoes hypnosis.

Steve Martini, The Simeon Chamber.
An attorney finds himself in a web of intrigue when a client inherits a manuscript that may be from the lost diary of 16th century explorer Sir Francis Drake.

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.
An African-American girl who is mocked by other children for her dark skin yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will let her fit in.

Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars.
A woman who left her husband arrives at a home for unwed mothers planning to give up her baby but ends up staying on as a cook.

James Patterson, The Thomas Berryman Number. Paperback Fiction
Three murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the leader he is hired to kill.

Richard North Patterson, The Lasko Tangent.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget takes on a corrupt but influential millionaire who has the ear of the President.

Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
After hitting her husband during an argument, a woman sets off across country with her daughter to take stock of her life on her brother’s farm.

Naomi Ragen, Jephte’s Daughter.
A Hasidic woman married to an abusive man escapes with her child to London but refuses to compromise her faith.

Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred (in Irish Hearts).
An Irish woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with the owner of a ranch where her dying uncle works.

Philip Roth, Letting Go.
Discharged from the army after the Korean War, a man studies literature in grad school and becomes involved in the lives of a married couple.

Richard Russo, Mohawk.
The interconnected lives of the inhabitants of an upstate New York town which is falling on hard times as its industries close down.

John Sandford, Rules of Prey.
Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport is caught up in a game with a killer known as the Maddog.

Lisa Scottoline, Everywhere That Mary Went.
A lawyer on track to make partner at her law firm is harassed by a stalker whose actions turn deadly.

Lisa See, Flower Net.
A Chinese inspector and an Assistant U.S. Attorney who were once lovers are assigned to investigate the murders of the son of the U.S. ambassador and the son of one of the most powerful men in China.

Anita Shreve, Eden Close.
A man returns to his childhood home where years earlier the girl next door was raped and blinded by a gunshot that killed her father.

Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy.
A British professor is asked to find a ruthless German spy to prevent the Nazis from learning of the planned D-Day invasion.

Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne.
When the President is kidnapped from a ski slope on his watch, disgraced Secret Service agent Scot Harvath launches a one man search-and-rescue mission that leads him to Switzerland.

Anne Tyler, If the Morning Ever Comes.
A law student who was raised in a house full of women makes a trip home to North Carolina to see how they are doing without him.

John Updike, The Poorhouse Fair.
On the day of a crafts fair at a home for the elderly, the residents revolt against their new director.

Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed.
A woman decides to turn her life around after she reads a column by an ex-boyfriend about their sex life and her weight problems.

Stuart Woods, Chiefs.
Three different police chiefs in a small Georgia town try to solve a series of disappearances over the course of 50 years.