Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers
9 best books like Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers (Lee Sandlin): Busman's Honeymoon, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Sea Keeper's Daughters, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, Larkspur Cove, Threads of Suspicion, Toucan Keep a Secret
Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
ISBN | 0061043516 |
Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket..
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Author | Deborah Blum |
ISBN | 1594202435 |
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Author | Robert A. Caro |
ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
The Sea Keeper's Daughters
Author | Lisa Wingate |
ISBN | 1414386907 |
Wingate's third Carolina book follows the highly reviewed, The Prayer Box and The Story Keeper as well as related three novellas.
From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt’s WPA folklore writers, past and present...
Author | Amanda Vickery |
ISBN | 0300154534 |
In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Author | Tony Horwitz |
ISBN | 1101980303 |
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
Author | Lisa Wingate |
ISBN | 0764208217 |
Adventure is the last thing on Andrea Henderson's mind when she moves to Moses Lake. After surviving the worst year of her life, she's struggling to build a new life for herself and her son as a social worker. Perhaps in doing a job that makes a difference, she can find some sense of purpose and solace in her...
Author | Dee Henderson |
ISBN | 0764219979 |
Dee Henderson Pens Another Compelling Cold Case Mystery
Evie Blackwell's reputation as a top investigator for the Illinois State Police has landed her an appointment to the governor's new Missing Persons Task Force. This elite investigative team is launched with plenty of public fanfare....
Author | Donna Andrews |
ISBN | 1250115477 |
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Gull.
Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal locking up after an event and checking on the toucan Meg's friend Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. After hearing a hammering in the...