Bag of Bones
A blocked novelist returns to his Maine lake house after his wife dies and faces a custody fight and old ghosts.
2,616-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: small town
104 books with this tag.
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Us Against You
Beartown fights Hed for players and pride after scandal, and loyalty costs more the second year.
2,133-word summary · 9 min read
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
A lonely witch tutors three young witches at a hidden house and falls for their prickly librarian.
2,812-word summary · 12 min read
All the Missing Girls
Told backwards over fifteen days, a woman probes two disappearances ten years apart in her hometown.
2,064-word summary · 9 min read
The Ex Hex
Vivi hexed ex Rhys years ago; his return triggers ghost and banter.
1,901-word summary · 8 min read
Reckless
Guarded Winter and charming Theo fake date through wedding season.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Powerless
Sloane flees her wedding and hides with best friend Jasper in Chestnut Springs, where eighteen years of friendship turn into something more.
2,195-word summary · 10 min read
Message in a Bottle
A divorced mother finds a grieving widower's letter and seeks him in North Carolina.
2,113-word summary · 9 min read
Final Offer
Cal Kane must spend the summer at Lake Wisteria to inherit, but his childhood ex Lana, now a mother, says the house belongs to her family.
2,379-word summary · 11 min read
Still Life
A beloved teacher found with an arrow in Three Pines looks like hunting accident until Gamache looks closer.
1,996-word summary · 9 min read
Needful Things
A smiling man sells exactly what you want for cash plus one small cruelty to a neighbor.
2,007-word summary · 9 min read
All Good People Here
A journalist returns home to care for her uncle and reopens a 20 year old child murder tied to a new abduction.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
Under the Dome
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
2,731-word summary · 12 min read
Things We Left Behind
Lucian Rollins returns to Knockemout to bury his father's past and collides with librarian Sloane Walton.
2,777-word summary · 12 min read
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before illness closes in.
2,972-word summary · 13 min read
Odd Thomas
A twenty year old fry cook who sees the dead tries to stop a mass shooting in his desert town.
3,797-word summary · 17 min read
Heartless
Gruff single dad Cade Eaton hires bubbly Willa Grant as summer nanny in Chestnut Springs, and two months together wear down his walls.
2,967-word summary · 13 min read
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Evelyn meets Ninny in a nursing home and hears the story of Idgie and Ruth and their Alabama cafe.
2,825-word summary · 13 min read
Cujo
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
2,910-word summary · 13 min read
The Casual Vacancy
Barry Fairbrother dies and leaves a Pagford council seat open, sparking an election, a class war over the Fields, and trouble for local teenagers.
2,571-word summary · 11 min read
Safe Haven
Katie hides in Southport from a violent husband and falls for widower Alex.
2,480-word summary · 11 min read
Flawless
Pro bull rider Rhett Eaton is benched by scandal, and his agent's daughter Summer must keep him in line in Chestnut Springs.
2,484-word summary · 11 min read
Part of Your World
ER doctor Alexis Montgomery falls for carpenter Daniel Grant in Wakan while her surgeon family presses duty.
3,078-word summary · 14 min read
Just for the Summer
Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.
3,090-word summary · 14 min read