Browsing Books by Books Like The Widower's Tale

The Obituary Writer: A Novel (2013)
An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the 20th century is linked to a wo...

The Name of the Wind (2007)
A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts h...

The Snow Child (2012)
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. ...

Disturbances in the Field (2005)
As a child, Lydia Rowe developed clear and distinct ideas about what made for the harmonious life. A...

The Tin Horse (2013)
A multi-generational story about twin sisters, one of whom disappears without a trace in 1939, is se...

The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)
An epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s chronicles the dec...

The Panopticon (2013)
Sent to a home for chronic offenders, fifteen-year-old foster child Anais considers her bleak life i...

Pops (2009)
Draws on previously unavailable sources including hundreds of private recordings made throughout the...

Cobra (2014)
A triple homicide in the picturesque Franschhoek wine valley and the deaths of two security guards w...

Lark and Termite (2009)
Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in the 1950s, a novel about family, the repercussions of ...

A Most Wanted Man (2008)
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil ri...

Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early 19th century and fo...

Redeployment (2014)
A collection of short stories by a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran focuses on the complexitie...

Highlander Claimed (2012)
Debut author Miller introduces the Clan Mackenzie, a family of fiercely loyal warriors and the women...

Turn of Mind (2011)
Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dement...

Red Hook Road (2010)
Traces the lives of the Tetherly and Copaken families in the aftermath of a child's tragic death, wh...