The Arrangement
10 best books like The Arrangement (Suzanne Forster): Babylonne, Journey Under the Sea, The Better Mousetrap, The Purloined Paperweight, Naked Eye, The Best Laid Plans, Mind Storm, Normal Girl, Freshman, The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood
Author | Catherine Jinks |
ISBN | 0763636509 |
Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.
Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's...
Author | R.A. Montgomery |
ISBN | 1933390026 |
Did the lost city of Atlantis really exist or is it just a myth? You are a highly experienced deep sea explorer. But you search for the lost continent of Atlantis is the trip of a lifetime. It will be the most challenging and dangerous mission of your career. Many unknowns will test your courage, abilities,...
Author | Tom Holt |
ISBN | 1841495034 |
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire, and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together. Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank...
Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
ISBN | 0933756097 |
TL;DR: 5 stars, one of the two best non-series Wodehouse I've read to date.
This was the perfect choice for the day. It's been far too long since I read some Wodehouse and Company for Henry has all the best Wodehouse tropes. Aunts and Uncles, Country Houses, poor relations, people engaged to the...
Author | Francine Pascal |
ISBN | 0689878249 |
The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear.
An agent’s work is never done.
Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case—and find her way back into the FBI’s good graces—when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes...
Author | Lynn Edelman Schnurnberger |
From Lynn Schnurnberger, bestselling co-author of Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries, comes a novel of big secrets, family ties, and a reminder that sometimes The Best Laid Plans can lead to delightful surprises.
Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side “M&Ms”—the wealthy...
Author | K.M. Ruiz |
ISBN | 0312673175 |
The first in an exciting new sci-fi series that’s being described as Blade Runner meets X-Men
Two hundred and fifty years after the world was nearly wiped out by nuclear war, what’s left of society fights over the scraps of the Earth as the rich and powerful plan to ascend in secret to another...
Author | Molly Jong-Fast |
ISBN | 0375757597 |
"Randa, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. I mean, I'm a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I'm just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?"
Molly Jong-Fast's Normal Girl is striking-and as funny...
Author | Michael Gerber |
ISBN | 0786838515 |
Hart Fox may not have the pedigree to be a shoo-in at Stutts, a prestigious Ivy League school, but he has the grades and the rsum. And he does make it in-sort of. His acceptance is hijacked by Burlington Darling III, a wealthy alum who is so desperate to get his hapless son, Trip, into Stutts that he funds...
The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood
Author | Andrew M. Greeley |
ISBN | 0765342359 |
"Blackwood, there's trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!"
The church in question is St. Lucy's, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy's has long stood as a bulwark against evil...
Author | Jasmine Haynes |
ISBN | 0425213609 |
A bachelorette party at a place called The Sex Club is the last place Debbie Carter expects to find the man of her fantasies. But in "Invitation to Seduction" Stephen wants to be that and so much more - if only Debbie will let him... The fourth time's the charm? So thinks Virginia Hansen, whose fourth walk...
Author | Laurie Horowitz |
ISBN | 0060875275 |
Jane Fortune's fortunes have taken a downturn. Thanks to the profligate habits of her father and older sister, the family's money has evaporated and Jane has to move out of the only home she's ever known: a stately brick town house on Boston's prestigious Beacon Hill. Thirty-eight and terminally single,...
Author | Rita Herron |
ISBN | 0373771029 |
Fearful yet determined, Ivy Stanton returns to the small Appalachian town she left fifteen years ago...the night her parents were murdered. But in coming home to Kudzu Hollow, she discovers she is not alone in her search for the truth: Matt Mahoney, the man who saved her life, who haunts her dreams, who...
Author | Adrian Magson |
ISBN | 0727869396 |
First in the brand-new Harry Tate thriller series - Having been made the scapegoat for a botched drugs intercept operation, MI5 officer Harry Tate is dispatched to ‘Red Station’, a remote outpost in the Balkans, ostensibly to avoid press scrutiny, but where in effect the security services send...
In the wake of Arbitrator Jonah Oliver's interrogation of Jibril Muraz, a prisoner of UNPOL, his secure life disintegrates into one of lies, corruption, conspiracy and murder due to what he learns.
Jonah is thrown into a race against the clock to stop a plot designed to eliminate two-thirds...
Author | Michael Kinch |
ISBN | 0738720674 |
In the year 2069, turning seventeen means mandatory Global Alliance work assignments that range from backbreaking drudgery to deadly canal labor. Trying to survive in a world that's been ravaged by plagues and environmental disasters, three "s'teeners" from the harshest backgrounds think they've...
Author | Sharon Sala |
ISBN | 0373764952 |
A small-town librarian by day, Amelia Beauchamp transforms into miniskirt-clad cocktail waitress Amber Champion by night, catching the eye of the town's biggest rake, Tyler Savage. Original.
AMELIA BY DAY
From nine to five, she was Amelia Beauchamp, typical small-town librarian....
Love Finds You in Calico, California
A young seamstress weaves her own story in a world run by men. After hearing news of a silver strike in Calico, California, Abigail Watts packs up her needles and thread and follows her beloved father out West. But when she's suddenly left alone in the rough mining town, Abigail finds herself pressed into...