John Smolens

• Dec-1988
• / Suspense
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When the son of a powerful local family disappears and Nelson Rideout's no-account brother is implicated in apparent murder, Nelson investigates to exonerate his brother but finds a long-concealed scandal, involving corruption, incest, and murder, st...

• May-1994
• / Suspense
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• Feb-2000
• / General Fiction
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The nine stories of John Smolens’ third book chart emotional and spiritual boundaries of the human experience. Teenaged boys search for sex, love and bomb shelters amidst the lawns of suburban Boston. A homeless woman pursues the Pope by phone. In ...

• Sep-2001
• / Suspense
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In the frozen reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, fierce winter storms can hit without notice. In the white opacity of one such blizzard, Norman Haas simply walks away from his prison work detail without detection.

After agonizing days of...

• Aug-2004
• / Suspense
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At nineteen, Hannah LeClaire already has a reputation in the village of Whitefish Harbor, where she grew up. She is a solitary young woman who is given to long walks along the coast of Lake Superior. On a cold April day, she wanders into a dilapidate...

• Dec-2009
• / Suspense
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On a stifling, hot afternoon in September 1901, a young anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, who has been stalking President William McKinley, waits in line to meet the president, his right hand wrapped in a handkerchief and held across his chest as though it w...

• Sep-2011
• / Historical
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From the critically acclaimed author of "The Anarchist" and "The Invisible World" -- an astonishing historical novel set during the American Revolution. With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Abigail Lovell's family is torn apart -- while h...

• Sep-2012
• / Historical
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An eloquent and dramatic portrait of a city plagued by mysterious pestilence -- as the isolation of the quarantine reveals the darker side of human nature. The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant trading town of Newburyport, Ma...

• Feb-2016
• / Thriller
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In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi...

• Jun-2017
• / Thriller
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The Invisible World portrays how a remarkable family is indelibly marred by one of the darkest conspiracy theories in American history: the gunman on the grassy knoll. Boston journalist Sam Adams suspects that his father may have been the unidentifie...

• Feb-2019
• / Thriller
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Out, the sequel to John Smolens’s internationally acclaimed novel Cold, finds the former constable Del Maki recovering from surgery and haunted by the recent loss of his wife. His house, set deep in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, become...

• Oct-2020
• / Historical
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In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before gradua...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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In 1924, an orphan train passes through the Midwest, and two teenagers, seeking a new life, find nothing but hardship when taken in to live on a farm in Michigan. Mercy, a teenage girl of mixed race, and a boy nicknamed Rope, who lost fingers in a fa...