City Songs
Fiction Set in Chicago

Dead Man’s Rule, Rick Acker

A Proper Pursuit, Lynn N. Austin

Room for Improvement, Stacey Ballis

Tears of the Dragon, Holly Baxter

Say When, Elizabeth Berg

A Final Judgment: A Ron Shade Novel,* Michael A. Black

A Dark and Deadly Deception,* Eleanor Taylor Bland

Heartstone, D. C. Brod

Because the Rain, Daniel Buckman

The Rosary Bride: A Cloistered Death,* Luisa Buehler

Storm Front: A Novel of the Dresden Files,* Jim Butcher

Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery,* Charlotte Carter

Out of Cabrini: A Macbeth Novel, Dave Case

The Accidental Florist: A Jane Jeffry Mystery,* Jill Churchill

Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, Sandra Cisneros

Road to Purgatory, Max Allan Collins

Fort Dearborn, Jerry Crimmins

Deader by the Lake: A Reno McCarthy Thriller, Doug M. Cummings

Oh, Play That Thing, Roddy Doyle

Hardball,* Barbara D’Amato

I Sailed with Magellan, Stuart Dybek

White Tiger,* Michael Allen Dymmoch

Happy Baby, Stephen Elliott

Dreaming Baseball, James T. Farrell

Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris

Hollywood Stuff,* Sharon Sloan Fiffer

Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Foster

A Safe Place for Dying, Jack Fredrickson

The Bishop at the Lake: A Blackie Ryan Story, Andrew M. Greeley*

Cast of Shadows, Kevin Guilfoile

The Chicago Way, Michael Harvey

Easy Innocence,* Libby Fischer Hellmann

Maitland Under Siege,* James Patrick Hunt

Deadly Interest: An Alex St. James Mystery,* Julie Hyzy

The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling,* Neta Jackson

To Love Mercy, Frank S. Joseph

An Unfinished Season, Ward Just

The Dead Don’t Lie: An Abe Lieberman Mystery,* Stuart M. Kaminsky*

Dirty Martini: A Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels Mystery,* Joe Konrath

Hunger and Thirst, Daniela Kuper

Black Dog, Thomas Laird

Close Call,* John McEvoy

The White City, Alec Michod

Ms. Etta’s Fast House, Victor McGlothin

Days of Rage,* Kris Nelscott

Calumet City, Charlie Newton

Well Bred and Dead: A High Society Mystery, Catherine O’Connell

Free Burning, Bayo Ojikutu

Fire Sale, Sara Paretsky*

Homicide 69, Sam Reaves

When the World Was Young, Tony Romano

At the City’s Edge, Marcus Sakey

Person of Interest,* Theresa Schwegel

Windy City: A Novel of Politics, Scott Simon

The Widow’s Son, Bruce Steinberg

All the Dead Fathers, David J. Walker

City of the Absent,* Robert W. Walker

Looped, Andrew Winston

Native Son, Richard Wright

Nerds Who Kill,* Mark Richard Zubro

Many of these authors may have written other fiction with a Chicago setting. Titles with an asterisk (*) are part of a series.

St. Charles Public Library

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Rev. 4/08