Browsing Books by Books Like The Widower's Tale

Instructions for a Heat Wave (2013)
When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a swelter...

Shadow of Night (2012)
In Elizabethan London, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana Bishop seeks a magical tutor, while ...

The Starboard Sea (2012)
Devastated by the suicide of his prep-school roommate and disdaining the trappings of his affluent M...

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World (2012)
Draws on the author's own experiences of portraying Dickens on stage and screen to illuminate Dicken...

India Becoming (2012)
An insider's look at developments in rural and urban India evaluates the impact of rapid economic gr...

The Art Forger (2012)
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-fiv...

The Train of Small Mercies (2011)
This debut novel follows multiple characters' intrepid search for hope amid the debris of an America...

When We Were Friends (2011)
After a mother asks an old high school friend to babysit her 1-year-old daughter, whom the mother sa...

Rose in a Storm (2010)
Assisting the farmer throughout a bitterly cold late-winter lambing season, Rose, a tough and dedica...

Insane City (2013)
Astonished by his imminent marriage to a women he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their de...

The Last Ember (2009)
Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sou...

In the Kitchen (2009)
Struggling to maintain his culinary integrity in a hotel restaurant, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoo...

Beautiful Malice (2010)
To escape the media attention generated by her sister's murder, a grieving seventeen-year-old Austra...

Imperfect Birds (2010)
Anticipating a successful final year of high school in a new community, star student and athlete Ros...

The Uninvited Guests (2012)
While fighting to save their family home, Charlotte prepares for an elaborate birthday celebration f...