Standalone Novels #7 by Wally Lamb The River Is Waiting follows Corby Ledbetter, a young father whose life is already under strain from job loss, new parenthood, and a secret dependence on alcohol and pills when he causes a tragedy…
Standalone Novels #6 by Wally Lamb I’ll Take You There returns to Felix Funicello, the same character introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’, but this time he is an adult looking back while also being pulled into an unusual collision between…
Standalone Novels #5 by Wally Lamb We Are Water centers on Annie Oh, an artist in Connecticut whose family is thrown into upheaval when, after a long marriage to psychologist Orion Oh, she leaves him and prepares to marry Viveca,…
Standalone Novels #4 by Wally Lamb Wishin’ and Hopin’ is a lighter, more nostalgic novel than Wally Lamb’s larger family dramas, centering on ten-year-old Felix Funicello during the Christmas season of 1964 in a small Connecticut town. Felix is a…
Standalone Novels #3 by Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed follows Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, whose lives are shattered after Maureen survives the Columbine High School shooting. What begins as the story of a marriage already carrying…
Standalone Novels #2 by Wally Lamb I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey, whose life is inseparable from that of his identical twin brother Thomas, a man living with paranoid schizophrenia. When Thomas commits a shocking public act,…
Standalone Novels #1 by Wally Lamb She’s Come Undone follows Dolores Price from childhood into adulthood as she tries to make sense of a life marked by family upheaval, isolation, and painful emotional setbacks. Told in Dolores’s own voice, the…
Kay Scarpetta #3 by Patricia Cornwell All That Remains finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta facing a grim pattern of murders in Virginia, where young couples have been disappearing and later turning up dead in remote areas. The latest case becomes even…
Kay Scarpetta #2 by Patricia Cornwell Body of Evidence begins when bestselling romance novelist Beryl Madison is found murdered after months of threatening phone calls and growing fear that she is being watched. As Virginia chief medical examiner Dr. Kay…
Kay Scarpetta #1 by Patricia Cornwell Postmortem introduces Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia, as she is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer targeting women across the city. The case offers very little to…