Read Yourself Into a Warmer Place

A Cat on a Beach Blanket, Lydia Adamson

My Sunshine, Catherine Anderson

The Green Room: Mai Huli ‘Oe I Kōkua O Ke Kai: Respect the Ocean, Deborah Turrell Atkinson

Empires of Sand, David W. Ball

Brazzaville Beach, William Boyd

The Sand-Reckoner, Gillian Bradshaw

The Body on the Beach, Simon Brett

The Sand Castle, Rita Mae Brown

Temperatures Rising, Sandra Brown

Barbados Heat, Don Bruns

Black Sand, William J. Caunitz

Beach Week, Susan Coll

Beach Music, Pat Conroy

Life’s a Beach, Claire Cook

Cruising for Love, Tami Cowden

Desert Summer, Michael Craft

Death on a Vineyard Beach, Philip R. Craig

Shakedown Beach, Eric Dezenhall

Cadillac Beach, Tim Dorsey

Dead Sand, Brendan DuBois

December Heat, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

Seven Mile Beach, Tom Gilling

The Beach House, Jane Green

Sandpebbles, Patricia Hickman

Summer People, Elin Hilderbrand

Beach Trip, Cathy Holton

Sand Dollars, Charles Knief

Gidget by Frederick Kohner

Running Hot, Jayne Ann Krentz

Heat Wave, Jill Marie Landis

Killer Cruise: A Jaine Austen Mystery, Laura Levine

Reed’s Beach, Bret Lott

Amber Beach, Elizabeth Lowell

Hot Rain, Kat Martin

Revere Beach Boulevard, Roland Merullo

The Beach House, Mary Alice Monroe

The Beach House, James Patterson

Tropic of Murder: A Nick Hoffman Mystery, Lev Raphael

Beach Girls, Luanne Rice

Beachcomber, Karen Robards

The Heat Is On, Jill Shalvis

Sunburn, Laurence Shames

Tropical Getaway, Roxanne St. Claire

Beach Roses, Jean Stone

Tropic of Fear, Ron Terpening

Moon Shell Beach, Nancy Thayer

The Sands of Pride, William R. Trotter

Beach Boy, Ardashir Vakil

The Heat Islands, Randy Wayne White

Death in a Beach Chair, Valerie Wolzien

Orchid Beach, Stuart Woods

Shifting Sands, Anne Worboys

This list was prepared by the St. Charles Public Library

For more reading suggestions, explore What to Read , or Ask Readers Services! 

Revised 6/05 jhl, 1/11 EG/mcs