Set in the PNW

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Set in the PNW

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All coyote's children : a novel
Husted, Bette Lynch
Paper Book
Jack and Annie Fallon had been living what seemed the ideal life with their son Riley, spending the school year in Portland, where Jack was a professor of Native American history, and summers at Jack's family ranch in northeastern Oregon, on land surrounded by the Umatilla Indian Reservation....
Bear : a novel
Phillips, Julia
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods--"a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end" (People, Book of the Week). ...
Betrayal
Margolin, Phillip
Paper Book
In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life. Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade...
The book of cold cases
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
In 1977, Claire Lake was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect, but she was acquitted. In 2017, Shea Collins runs a true crime website, a passion fuelled by the attempted...
The butterfly girl : a novel
Denfeld, Rene
Paper Book
"A heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful novel by the amazing Rene Denfeld." --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi--the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children--returns, trading snow-covered...
Death bee comes her
Coco, Nancy
Paper Book
Nancy Coco, author of the popular Candy-Coated Mystery series, brings the Pacific Northwest's rainy coast to life with her new Oregon Honeycomb Mystery series starring Wren Johnson and her Havana Brown cat, Everett. Wren owns a specialty shop in the tourist town of Oceanview, where it's all...
Double shot death
Duncan, Emmeline
Paper Book
With its entrepreneurial, 20-something protagonist, focus on a hipster-run food truck pod in Portland, Oregon, and real-world issues involving homelessness and gentrification, this second Ground Rules Mystery is a modern, fresh-voiced, and witty cozy featuring a sleuth who can make a perfect...
East of the mountains
Guterson, David.
Paper Book
It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington state, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance. He has terminal colon cancer. While...
Fever house : a novel
Rosson, Keith (Novelist)
Paper Book
"Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever Housenow."-STEPHEN KING A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.
The girls of good fortune : a novel
McMorris, Kristina
Paper Book
Her cold justice
Dugoni, Robert
Paper Book
To save a client accused of murder, defense attorney Keera Duggan must fight a complex web of corruption in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. In a quiet South Seattle neighborhood, a suspected drug smuggler and his girlfriend are...
The jump-off creek
Gloss, Molly.
Paper Book
In the Oregon mountains setting of the 1890s, a woman gives her side of pioneering the West. Lydia Sanderson is determined that she will not become lonely as she forges a place of her own. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Left and the Lucky
Vlautin, Willy
Paper Book
Recipient of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize "A . . . compassionate and life-affirming tale about how human connection is critical to survival."--Kirkus (Starred Review) Eddie Wilkens is a housepainter in his early forties. His wife has left him, and his...
The librarianist : a novel
deWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.  Bob Comet is a retired librarian...
Madwoman
Bieker, Chelsea
Paper Book
A National Bestseller * Finalist for the WILLA Literary Award* Longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize * An Oprah's Best Book of the Year * An NPR Best Book of 2024  "[Bieker's] writing is raw, breathlessly confessional, brilliant in its...
Mink river : a novel
Doyle, Brian
Paper Book
The story of the small Oregon coast town of Neawanaka and its people.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken.
Paper Book
Ken Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Boisterous,...
Skin & Bones
Watson, Renee
Paper Book
Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and...
So far gone : a novel
Walter, Jess
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD "A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."--Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of...
Storybook ending : a novel
Macdonald, Moira
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charming story about friendship, community, and the magic that happens in bookstores--when an anonymous note left in a book finds the wrong recipient. April, a smart and lonely tech worker, worries work from home has gotten out of hand: She's...
The Tigers of Lents
Pomeroy, Mark
Paper Book
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, Literary Fiction 2025 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) gold medalist, Best Regional Fiction: West-Pacific This is the story of the Garrison family, who live in Lents, an...
Tilt : a novel
Pattee, Emma
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A USA TODAY Bestseller A Best Book of 2025 for Vogue Named one of Time...
The trail of lost hearts
Garvis Graves, Tracey
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Tracey Garvis Graves's novel The Trail of Lost Hearts takes readers on a life affirming journey, where two lost souls find the unexpected courage to love again. Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention,...
A wild and heavenly place : a novel
Oliveira, Robin
Paper Book
How far would you go? How much would you risk? Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes's loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. Yet, when Samuel saves...
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