Browsing Books by Books Like In the Shadow of the Banyan

Run (2014)
Fired for no apparent reason from the huge technical corporation where his wife works as a high-powe...

Gilgamesh (2001)
Nineteen-year-old Edith and her son leave rural Australia for Soviet Armenia in 1939, inspired by an...

The Silent Girl (2011)
Discovering primate hair at the scene of a grisly murder in Chinatown, Boston homicide detective Jan...

Fobbit (2012)
At Forward Operating Base Triumph in Baghdad, a combat-avoiding staff sergeant named Chance Gooding ...

Red Flags (2011)
Assigned to an undermanned base in Vietnam's Cheo Reo, Army cop Erik Rider works to disrupt the opiu...

A Dual Inheritance (2013)
Forging an intense friendship in their senior year at Harvard, Ed, a Jewish scholarship student, and...

Ruin Falls (2014)
When their children mysteriously vanish while on the way to visit their paternal grandparents in wes...

Half Broke Horses (2009)
The author offers a novel based on the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who learned to bre...

Dearie (2012)
Draws on the iconic culinary figure's personal diaries and letters to present a one-hundredth birthd...

Heading Out to Wonderful (2012)
Charlie Beale meets Sylvan Glass, the bride of the town's richest man, and Sam Haislett, the son of ...

The Children Act (2014)
A highly respected London judge hides behind her professional accomplishments her decision to separa...

Brutal Youth (2014)
Enrolled in a crumbling educational depository for stridently Catholic working-class families, fresh...

The Mockingbird Next Door (2014)
Describes the story of a journalist who befriended the notoriously quiet and private author of To Ki...

The Dead Will Tell (2014)
Investigating a murder that was staged to look like a suicide, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder follo...

One Good Turn (2006)
Millionaire ex-detective Jackson Brodie follows his girlfriend to Edinburgh for the famous arts fest...

Shine Shine Shine (2012)
When fabricated aspects of their picture-perfect world are embarrassingly exposed by a car accident,...