Novel Houston
Novels set in the Houston area. Provided
by the staff at the West Universty Branch
Library.
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- Frederick Barthelme. Natural
Selection
- Midlife crisis of PR hack, Peter Wexler.
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- Venise Berry. Colored
Sugar Water
- Romance, faith and friendship in the lives of two African American
women.
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- Jay Brandon. Predator’s
Waltz
- Suspense novel set in Houston’s “Little Vietnam”.
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- Rosellen Brown. Half
a Heart
- A mother and the biracial daughter she abandoned long ago reunite.
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- Bill Crider. Blood
Marks
- Serial murder/psychological thriller.
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- Ralph Ditman. Allen’s
Landing: the Authentic Story of the Founding of Houston
- How Houston was born out of the ashes of the Texas Revolution.
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- Tim Hemlin. Dead
Man’s Broth
- Mayhem and mystery following the murder of a Houston TV chef.
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- David Lindsey. The
Color of Night
- Thriller featuring a former spy turned art dealer.
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- David Lindsey. Requiem
for a Glass Heart
- A female special agent in the Houston FBI office matches wits
with a Russian female assassin.
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- Larry McMurtry. The
Evening Star
- Starring Houston grand dame, Aurora Greenway and her rowdy grandchildren;
a sequel to Terms of Endearment.
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- Larry McMurtry. Moving
On
- Three couples, their good times and bad.
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- J.P. Miller. Surviving
Joy
- Bildungsroman set in Depression-era Houston.
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- Suzanne Morris. Wives
and Mistresses
- The love-hate relationships between two prominent Houston families
during the late nineteenth century.
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- Page Page. Hope’s
Cadillac
- Surviving divorce in Houston, 1969.
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- Chris Rogers. The
Bitch Factor
- The first in a series about a super tough bounty hunter, Dixie
Flannigan.
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- Anne Sloan. Murder
on the Boulevard
- Houston,1908: introducing amateur detective, botanist and suffragist
-- Flora Logan.
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- Gail D. Storey. God’s
Country Club
- Further escapades of about-to-be-married Colleen Sweeney, librarian
to the Houston homeless.
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- Gail D. Storey. The
Lord’s Motel
- A zany librarian’s misadventures in love and life.
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- Karen H. Stuyck. Cry
for Help
- Solving a friend’s suicide.
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- Paula Webb. Domestic
Life
- A woman artist, her almost-husband, his almost ex-wife, and
a Stepdaughter from Hell.
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