Connecticut

Jane Haddam, Skeleton Key. Mystery
Gregor Demarkian investigates the death of a debutante in a wealthy Connecticut town.

Jane Heller, The Club. Fiction
After losing her job, a woman finds hanging around the country club dull until a member is murdered.

Janice Law, The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed. Fiction
A literature professor who’s involved with a student hides her diary from police when she’s murdered.

Karen Osborn, The River Road. Fiction
Two brothers love the same girl, leading to tragedy in the Connecticut countryside.

Luanne Rice, The Secret Hour. Fiction
A woman travels to the Connecticut shore to find out from the lawyer who defended the “Breakwater Killer” whether her sister was among the victims.

Ann Ripley, The Garden Tour Affair. Mystery
Amateur sleuth Louise Eldridge takes a garden tour of Connecticut that turns deadly.

Katherine Valentine, A Miracle for St. Cecilia’s. Fiction
The Catholic congregation in a small town needs a miracle to keep their church from being closed.

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road. Fiction
A couple in 1950s suburban Connecticut become disillusioned with their lives.

Maine

Sarah Blake, Grange House. Fiction
A girl vacationing at a grand hotel in 1896 worries about her future and uncovers a haunting secret.

Gerry Boyle, Potshot. Mystery
A journalist’s story on the legalization of marijuana turns dangerous when a source disappears.

Lisa Carey, In the Country of the Young. Fiction
On an island off the Maine coast, a recluse whose sister committed suicide meets the ghost of an Irish child who died in a shipwreck 100 years ago.

John Connolly, The Killing Kind. Fiction
An ex-cop investigates the suspicious suicide of a woman who was researching a religious commune whose members disappeared over 30 years ago.

Elizabeth Gilbert, Stern Men. Fiction
A woman ends a generations-long feud between the lobstermen on two islands off the Maine coast.

Sarah Graves, Unhinged. Mystery
A stockbroker who moved to Maine to restore a Federal home investigates the disappearance of an elderly woman known to be a snoop.

Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs. Fiction
In the late 1800s, a writer travels to the Maine coast seeking solitude but finds unexpected friends.

Stephen King, It. Fiction
Seven adults return to Derry, Maine, where they encountered an evil force as children.

Richard Russo, Empire Falls. Fiction
In a town long abandoned by industry, a man who left college to help his family observes the people who frequent the local grill.

Massachusetts

Linda Barnes, Coyote. Mystery
Cab driving sleuth Carlotta Carlyle investigates the murders of illegal immigrants in Boston.

Elizabeth Benedict, Almost. Fiction
A woman returns to Swansea Island when she receives news of her estranged husband’s death.

Philip Craig, A Beautiful Place to Die. Mystery
An ex-cop on Martha’s Vineyard investigates a mysterious explosion on a friend’s fishing boat.

Elin Hilderbrand, Nantucket Nights. Fiction
Three friends meet annually on a Nantucket beach, but one year a tragedy reveals buried secrets.

Anne LeClaire, Entering Normal. Fiction
A single mother fleeing her boyfriend is befriended by a woman grieving for her son in a small town.

Dennis Lehane, A Drink before the War. Fiction
Two senators hire Boston P.I.s Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro to recover documents stolen by a cleaning woman who has since disappeared.

Roland Merullo, In Revere in Those Days. Fiction
An boy whose parents are killed is raised by his extended Italian family in a Boston suburb.

Robert Parker, Back Story. Mystery
Boston P.I. Spenser is hired by a woman to find out who killed her mother 30 years ago.

Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club. Fiction
In the 19th century at Harvard, Henry Longfellow, Oliver Holmes and James Lowell investigate murders patterned after Dante’s Inferno.

Jeanne Ray, Julie and Romeo. Fiction
When a Boston couple in their 60s start dating, they are thwarted by a family feud.

John Sedgwick, The Education of Mrs Bemis. Fiction
A psychiatrist investigates the past of a wealthy Boston woman found catatonic in Filene’s.

Suzanne Strempek Shea, Around Again. Fiction
A woman agrees to return to the Massachusetts farm of her childhood to help her ill uncle.

Dorothy West, The Wedding. Fiction
Cracks begin to form in the façade of a seemingly perfect family as they prepare for their daughter’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.

New Hampshire

Andrew Coburn, Widow’s Walk. Mystery
A police chief risks his job to investigate three murders in a small resort community.

Ursula Hegi, The Vision of Emma Blau. Fiction
A German immigrant settles in New Hampshire and runs an apartment building by Lake Winnipesaukee.

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Fiction
A boy with stunted growth believes that he’s destined to be an instrument of God.

John Knowles, A Separate Peace. Fiction
Roommates at an exclusive prep school form a bond that ultimately results in violence and betrayal.

Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation. Fiction
In 1838, a man with a troubled past tries to make a new life in northern New Hampshire but is blamed by the locals when conflicts arise.

Ruth Doan MacDougall, The Cheerleader. Fiction
A teenager comes of age in 1950s New Hampshire.

Anita Shreve, Sea Glass. Fiction
A newlywed couple in a beach house get involved in the plight of mill workers during the Depression.

Rhode Island

Thomas Briody, Rogue’s Isles. Mystery
A reporter in Providence finds his life in danger when he uncovers a bank fraud.

Barbara Delinsky, The Vineyard. Fiction
A recently widowed woman shocks her children by announcing plans to marry her vineyard manager.

Lisa Gardner, The Survivors Club. Fiction
Three Providence women who were the victims of a rapist become suspects when he is killed.

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, She’s Not There. Mystery
Two federal agents vacationing on Block Island investigate deaths at a weight-loss camp.

Paul Watkins, The Story of My Disappearance. Fiction
An East German recruited by the Stasi is assigned to contact Soviet submarines off the coast of Rhode Island and stays there after the Cold War.

Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North. Fiction
In the summer of 1926, a young man works for the wealthy families along Ocean Drive in Newport.

Vermont

Chris Bohjalian, Midwives. Fiction
A midwife who performs a caesarean on a woman she believes is dead in order to save the baby is accused of causing the mother’s death.

William Heffernan, Beulah Hill. Fiction
During the Depression in a small Vermont community, a racist man’s son is found dead on the land of the town’s only black family.

Elizabeth Inness-Brown, Burning Marguerite. Fiction
On an island in Lake Champlain, a man discovers the frozen body of the woman who raised him and remembers how their lives became intertwined.

Archer Mayor, Open Season. Mystery
Brattleboro detective Joe Gunther realizes that two crime victims both served on the jury at the trial of a Vietnam vet convicted of murder.

Sue Miller, The World Below. Fiction
A woman cleaning out the family home in Vermont learns about her grandmother’s early life in Maine.

Nancy Means Wright, Stolen Honey. Mystery
A Vermont farmer investigates when her neighbors are suspected in the death of a college boy who tried to rape their daughter.