An aging, small-time Boston criminal and informant navigates deals, betrayals, and legal pressure within the city's Irish-American underworld. The novel focuses on his day-to-day interactions, the negotiations between criminals and law enforcement, and the consequences of compromised loyalties.

After a devastating nuclear war, American society has turned against modern science; rebuilding cities and technological expertise is banned and religious groups that opposed technology before the war now shape public life.

A 2023 historical novel that places a lone woman into a Western-era community where past traumas and local mysteries collide with uncanny phenomena. The book sets up a central pressure: an outsider's efforts to survive and make a home amid suspicion, danger, and signs that something otherworldly may be at work.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

Set in late-19th-century London, the novel follows an agent involved in espionage for an unnamed foreign power amid a small circle touched by anarchist agitation. The book traces the effects of political plotting and covert operations on ordinary lives, especially relationships marked by dependency and vulnerability.

A scholarly novice and his mentor arrive at an isolated medieval monastery where a string of mysterious deaths presents a locked-circle investigation.

Two girls grow up together in a Black Ohio neighborhood and their friendship—shaped by class, family, and local expectations—becomes a lasting pressure that reshapes both their lives and the community around them.

A first-person account by a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam focuses on his entanglement with an earnest young American and a Vietnamese woman, set against the collapse of French colonial rule and the rise of early U.S. involvement.

A Philadelphia patrol officer working in a struggling neighborhood pursues a string of murders while also searching for her own missing sister.

An academic family in the American Midwest navigates everyday routines, consumer culture, and family dynamics while an external technological/industrial threat forces questions about death, risk, and how people manage fear.

A mid-20th-century science-fiction novel that follows a determined protagonist caught in a personal quest for vengeance within a richly constructed twenty-fifth-century milieu.

A woman embedded in high society navigates the pressures of reputation, money, and marriage as private desires and public judgment intersect. The immediate pressure is how social expectations and limited economic choices shape personal decisions and lead to moral and material consequences.