Diversion Books: 923 books

A Chicago PI faces a deadly world of femme fatales and not-so-saintly nuns in this crime novel from a “wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny” author (The New York Times).   When Sister Rosetta’s niece goes missing, the nun (whose favorite poison is anything bottle-bound and boozy) hires...

In the fast and funny sequel to The Dada Caper, former Chicago PI Chance Purdue comes out from behind the bar to get back in the game.   Try as he may, Chance Purdue can’t seem to escape the world of private investigation. The now tavern owner returns to action to protect Princess Sonia of Kaleski,...

All bets are off when Chicago detective Chance Purdue protects a gambler with a target on his head in this PI parody from the author of The Dada Caper.   “Bet-a-Bunch” Dugan is being hunted by International DADA (Destroy America, Destroy America) conspirators, a terrorist organization out for...

Wisecracking Chicago PI Lacey Lockington gets caught in a dangerous game of international espionage in this gritty, “truly hilarious” mystery (Kirkus Reviews).   Former Chicago police detective Lacey Lockington isn’t much for small talk. But when he hears ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux is coming...

From the author of The Dada Caper: Even an anti-American conspiracy can’t keep Chicago PI Chance Purdue from falling prey to his personal femme fatale.   Private Investigator Chance Purdue and Brandy Alexander work in tandem on a case that finds them traveling to the Illinois town of Radish River....

The Chicago PI is out to find a Russian defector with dangerous Soviet secrets in this hardboiled mystery from the author of Death Wore Gloves.   When business gets too hot in the Windy City, private detective Lacey Lockington hangs out his shingle in refreshingly boring Youngstown, Ohio. Of course,...

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system’s failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe,...

“Told with icy precision of eye and ear and a wink of wicked humor . . . First-rate haunted-house creepiness” from the bestselling author of Summer of ’42 (Kirkus Reviews). Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine....

A novel of an unlikely college romance and the choices we face on the cusp of independence, by a New York Times–bestselling author.   Headstrong and beautiful Quinn Mallory meets Will Ingraham at college in the 1960s. Their personalities couldn’t be more different, but a true love blossoms between...

In the untamed mountains of the West, two wounded hearts find solace and fire in this spellbinding historical western romance. Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1875. Dinah Odell will do anything to escape the cruel manipulations of her greedy uncle. Posing as a nurse, she heads to California to tend...

“Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale." —RT BOOK REVIEWS Armed only with her wavering courage and her fear that her brother has been captured during the Huguenot uprising against Louis XIII,  Marielle Saint-Juste enters the Rebel prison to search him out. But it isn't her wounded...

An award-winning author “deftly evokes the era and the pain and lives of her three-dimensional characters” in a romance set during the French Revolution (RT Book Reviews).   Lysette, the Marquise de Ferrance, is left penniless after her husband dies. With nowhere else to turn—and as Paris becomes...

When it comes to the riches of love, the heart is the crown jewel. When Anne Fredericks, having very nearly reached the age of four and twenty but still unmarried, learns that she is to visit Cheltenham for the Season, her heart cannot help but beat a little faster. It was in Cheltenham, five years earlier,...

A notorious rake can run from the law—but not from love—in this captivating Regency romance from “an amazingly talented author who has few rivals” (RT Book Reviews). Kidnapped by her callous cousin, Quentin Fordyce, beautiful Anne Morland has to fight off his amorous assault with all...