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• The Art Forger

  a Novel

  Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951-

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  This art-centered tale revolves around a mysterious painting that may or may not be one of the paintings stolen in the largest art heist, from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.

• The Boston Girl

  a Novel

  Diamant, Anita,

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  Addie Baum, daughter of immigrant parents, recalls her life growing up in 20th century Boston, to her granddaughter.

• The Dante Club

  a Novel

  Pearl, Matthew

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  Set in the mid-nineteenth century Boston, Dante scholars of the time including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, must band together to solve murders that seem inspired by "Inferno".

• The Godwulf Manuscript

  Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010

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  The first book in a long-running mystery series starring Spenser, a Boston private investigator.

• Her Every Fear

  Swanson, Peter, 1968-

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  This thriller centers around a young woman from London who switches apartments with a distant cousin who lives in Boston' s Beacon Hill. Soon after she arrives she finds her neighbor is murdered. Who really is this distant cousin of hers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Hurrah

  O'Connor, Edwin

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  Fictionalized account of Boston's colorful mayor for four terms in the first half of the twentieth-century, James Michael Curley.

• The Late George Apley

  a Novel in the Form of a Memoir

  Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960

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  The story of a high society family in Boston as times change from the Gilded Age in the late 19th-century to the Great Depression.

• Mystic River

  Lehane, Dennis

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  Almost all of Lehane's books could be on this list, but this psychological thriller-turned film was the most obvious to include.

• The Saturday Evening Girls Club

  Healey, Jane,

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  Four friends get together on Saturday evenings and share their hopes, dreams, and lives with each other in their North End neighborhood.

• The Surgeon

  Gerritsen, Tess

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  The first in a thriller series set in Boston featuring detective Jane Rizzoli, and medical examiner Maura Isles.

• Thieftaker

  Jackson, D. B.

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  This part urban fantasy, part historical thriller is set in colonial Boston in the 1760's.

• The Town

  Hogan, Chuck

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  Yes, the movie by Ben Affleck was a book first. The Town follows career-thief Doug of Charlestown, as he tries to balance planning a heist and his relationship with Claire, a bank manager from a previous heist.