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Fiction books that take place in OhioA bibliography of fiction books that take place in Ohio created in celebration of the 2003 Ohio Bicentennial.
GENERAL FICTION
Santmyer, Helen Hooven, 1895-
SANTM The story of the lives of the members of a women's book club in a small Ohio town in the years between the Civil War and the beginning of the Depression.
Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.
RICHT Contains all three volumes of the American Frontier trilogy: The Fields, The Town and The Trees that tell the story of the Wheeler family and the growth of their Ohio town.
Morrison, Toni.
MORRI This Pulitzer Prize winning novel tells the story of former slave Sethe who fled a Kentucky plantation for freedom in Ohio. Now the spirit of her murdered child whom she calls "Beloved", haunts her.
Roarke, Mike.
Fic This novel focuses on Ohio during the French and Indian War.
Morrison, Toni.
MORRI Pecola Breedlove, a black adolescent girl, strives to obtain the "white" ideals of beauty, an obsession that ultimately leads her down the road to madness.
Powell, Dawn
POWE Powell is on a roll. Steerforth recently brought her novel The Happy Island back into print (Classic Returns, LJ 11/15/98), and her first biography, Tim Page's Dawn Powell (LJ 9/15/98), was recently published. This 1929 title is the story of a women in love with two men. CAHNERS PUBLISHING, c1998.-
Collins, Brandilyn.
COLLI Jessie's mother had always been told she would never be good enough. When her mother dies, Jessie goes to live with her aunt and uncle where she hopes to receive the approval her mother never did.
Winegardner, Mark, 1961-
WINEG A grand piece of historical fiction set in Cleveland, Ohio highlighting the yeas 1948 to 1969
Dew, Robb Forman.
DEW A National Book Award winner that depicts the interactions of family members as they suffer the effects of separation and poor judgement.
Johnston, Terry C., 1947-
JOHNS Relates the early life of Titus Bass, one of Johnson's most popular characters, who leaves his Kentucky farm home to become a frontiersman along the Ohio River.
Dell, George, 1901-
DELL This well-researched historical novel reveals the intimate world of the Union Village Shaker community that flourished in southern Ohio in the early 19th century.
Montanari, Richard.
MONTA An erotically charged thriller set in Cleveland's upscale singles bars finds a pair of serial killers pulling a police officer into an all-too-human game of voyeurism, kidnapping and murder. (Ingram)
Chase, Joan.
CHASE This novel tells about the lives of one woman, her five daughters and her four granddaughters during the 1950's.
Dell, George, 1901-
DELL The story of an Ohio farming family from the end of the Civil War to World War I.
Dew, Robb Forman.
DEW This novel follows the lives of three people who were born on the same day in a small Ohio town in 1888.
Santmyer, Helen Hooven, 1895-1986.
SANTM When Elizabeth returns to her hometown she thinks back to her youth and the memories of a broken heart.
Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.
RICHT Sayward Wheeler and her family settle their land in this second volume of the Awakening Land Trilogy.
Goldman, James.
GOLDM The lives of everyone in Fulton is changed by the affair between Talker, a man who brings a girlie show to town, and Marcie Van Buren, a women at the top of Fulton County society.
Monroe, Mary.
MONRO Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the track--and the shattering event that changes their lives forever. (Book jacket)
Fielding, Joy.
FIELD "Chris, Barbara, Susan and Vicki, all young mothers, meet at a local Cincinnati playground in the 1970s and become fast friends for the next 23 years."(Booklist)
Parker, Sandra
PARKE This novel is an anthology of frontier and pioneer stories written by women authors from Ohio in the nineteenth century.
Andrews, V. C.
ANDRE A young woman's joy in music is jeopardized by secrets in her family's past.
Bialosky, Jill.
BIALO Bialosky is an editor at Norton, already esteemed as a poet (Subterranean), and this lacerating first novel bears many traces of a poet's imagery and concentration. It is the story of a mother with three young daughters, devastated by the accidental death of her husband and the toll it takes on all their lives. CAHNERS PUBLISHING, c2002.-
Boucher, Lisa
BOUCH A defense lawyer in Dayton, Ohio is asked to defend a doctor accused of murder, who turns out to be one of the twins she gave up as an unwed teen.
Bittner, Rosanne, 1945-
BITTN The Revolutionary War comes to the Ohio Valley and affects the lives of two brothers, Luck and Jeremiah Wilde, and Anne Barnes, the woman who loves them both.
Holden, Craig.
HOLDE Taking place in Cincinnati, this book is a history of the jazz age--the music, the history, the booze and the crime. Based on a true story. (Amazon.com)
Montanari, Richard.
MONTA A no-holds-barred thriller set in Cleveland featuring homicide detective Jack Paris going up against a serial killer with a bent toward Santaria.
West, Jessamyn.
WEST A well-respected author writes about farm life in nineteenth century Ohio.
Roosa, Robert.
ROOSA The story of James Rogers who grows up during the Depression, serves in the Army in World War II and returns to the United States to plan the rest of his life.
Zafris, Nancy.
ZAFRI Zafris, the fiction editor of the Kenyon Review and the author of the short story collection The People I Know, dissects the decidedly strange subculture of scrap metal workers in her quirky debut novel, delving into the dissolution of an Ohio family's scrap metal operation when 30-ish John Bonner finally takes the reins from his domineering father. CAHNERS PUBLISHING, c2002.-
Robards, Karen.
ROBAR A contemporary romantic suspense novel set in Columbus, Ohio in which a police detective must save a family court judge from a stalker.
Powell, Dawn.
Fic Published in 1944, this novel tells the story of three sisters who, having known a simple happy, young life, grown up to experience the realities of life.
Behrens, Ellen, 1957-
BEHRE An outsider helps a town find the meaning in the discovery of an ancient Indian burial site outside of town.
Powell, Dawn.
POWEL Contains COME BACK TO SORRENTO and DANCE NIGHT, two titles from the Ohio series.
Gurvis, Sandra.
GURVI The story of a young Ohio college girl who becomes involved in the protest movement of the 1960's.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
ANDER "Describes the changes occurring in a Midwestern town when industrialism replaces the old agrarian, craft-centered society." Reader's Ency.
Powers, Krystalyn.
POWER A woman survives a tragic and anguishing past to find a life filled with optimism and hope.
Harper, Karen
HARPE In the wake of the Civil War, a crumbling mansion in Lockwood, Ohio, becomes the Christmas refuge of owner Amanda Wayne, two war widows, a former slave and her daughter, and Lincoln Garner, a homeless ex-Confederate soldier. (Ingram)
Bachman, Richard.
BACHM An evil creature uses the imagination of an autistic child to turn a small Ohio town into a bizarre world. (Bachman is a pseudonym for Stephen King.)
Levandoski, Rob, 1949-
LEVAN A hideous home-brewed house paint has unpredictable consequences for the daft residents of a small Ohio town that's preparing for its annual tourist event. (Kirkus)
Patterson, Richard North.
PATTE This novel "revolves around a friendship that begins on a high-school football field and is tested half a lifetime later in a lake City, Ohio courtroom." (Publisher's Weekly)
Smith, Scott B., 1940-
SMITH Three men in a small Ohio town agree not to tell the authorities when they find a crashed plane and 4.4 million dollars but the discovery soon brings betrayal and murder.
Jaffe, Michael Grant.
JAFFE Michael Grant Jaffe's chilly, and chilling, second novel chronicles several stages in the lives of three kids...(NYTBR)
Thomas, Annabel, 1929-
THOMA A multigenerational saga that deals with the struggle between country life and city life.
Morrison, Toni.
MORRI Meeting when they are twelve, the friendship of two black women is ultimately tested when they get older.
Goldsmith, Olivia.
GOLDS Just when Sylvie is ready to reclaim the romance in her marriage she discovers that her husband has another woman on the side.
Stevens, Brooke.
STEVE A young girl, covered in fish-scale tattoos, is found wandering in an Ohio mall after closing. Adopted by Lucy, a former fat lady in a circus, they find their first priority must be solving the mystery of her identity.
Dumont, Julia L. 1794-1857.
DUMON Dumont, a resident of Ohio when it was the "west" depicts frontier life in the first part of the 19th century, focusing espeically on the plight of women.
Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.
RICHT The final volume of the Awakening Land trilogy concludes the story of Sayward Wheeler and her family as the Ohio wilderness grows into a bustling town.
Kittle, Katrina.
KITTL Summer learns all about love as she returns home to teach high school and to help take care of her older brother dying of AIDS.
Nissenson, Hugh.
NISSE Told in the form of a diary (with some illustrations), Nissenson's 1985 novel is an exchange of faiths. Congregational minister Thomas Keene abandons his flock in 1811 New England after losing his trust in God and starts life over in the wilderness of Ohio. His life there is marked by his growing love for a young widow and the settlers' shaky relationship with local Indians.
Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.
RICHT The Wheeler family journeys to the Ohio wilderness to clear the land and settle their family in this first volume of Richter's famous trilogy.
Andrew, Michael
ANDRE From the operating room to the court room, this Christian fiction legal thriller will keep you guessing.
Kittle, Katrina.
KITTL Both a mystery and a book of self-discovery, this novel tells the story of Dair Canard who has told lies for years. Now after the murder of a friend, she discovers that all those lies may be catching up with her but she may discover some truths about herself.
Montanari, Richard.
MONTA Cleveland journalist Nick Stella searches for a killer who is seeking revenge for the murder of a young college girl committed twenty years earlier.
Shreve, Susan Richards.
SHREV A visiting physician is called in to help solve the mystery of an epidemic in a northwestern Ohio town.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
ANDER Twenty-three short stories linked by the character of journalist George Willard. the stories scrutinize small town life and the residents whose reality do not match their dreams. Originally published in 1919
MYSTERY
John, Cathie.
JOHN First installment in the kate Cavanaugh Cullinary Mysteries as Kate investigates the murder of the "restaurant critic from hell".
Marks, Jeffrey.
MARKS Ulysses S. Grant comes home to Georgetown, Ohio after the Civil War and is confronted with murder.
John, Cathie.
JOHN This second novel in the Kate Cavanaugh mystery series finds kate, a caterer, trying to protect two friends as she faces her own battle with breast cancer. Recipes included.
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Cleveland private detective Milan Jacovich solves a rape and then a murder that took place on a local college campus. (10th book in the series)
Gaus, Paul L.
GAUS The first in a series of mysteries set in Ohio Amish country featuring Professor Michael Branden, a Millersburg College historian who helps find a little boy in this book.
Gaus, Paul L.
GAUS The second book in this fascinating multicultural mystery series set in Ohio Amish country.
John, Cathie.
JOHN Charlotte Oakley asks caterer and sometime sleuth kate Cavanaugh to investigate Victor Lloyd. Soon Kate finds herself involved in murder. (Third book in the series)
Soos, Troy, 1957-
SOOS Mickey Rawlings just wanted to forget WWI and play for the Cincinnati Reds, but soon he becomes involved in a conspiracy of murder, deceit and lies.
Roberts, Les.
ROBER This Jacovich mystery finds Milan trying to solve the murder of a retired Serbian worker. (4th in series)
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Cleveland private detective Milan Jacovich is hired to find out who murdered an attorney while he was on a Caribbean vacation. (8th book in the series)
Gaus, Paul L.
GAUS Michael Branden helps investigate a series of robberies committed by Amish teenagers in this third book of the series.
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Mary Soderberg left Cleveland P. I. Milan Jacovich for Steve Cirini three years ago. Now she turns to him for help in solving a murder of which Steve is accused. (7th book in the series)
Hightower, Lynn S.
HIGHT Cincinnati homicide detective Sonora Blair investigatesa home invasion where everyone is brutally murdered except for the youngest family member, a four-month-old infant. (Fourth book in the series)
Roberts, Les.
ROBER A possible drug-running operation in a staid, old-fashioned, middle-class Cleveland neighborhood soon has Milan Jacovich racing against time to save an old friend and the city itself. (PW)3rd book in the series.
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich searches for a criminal in the Coventry section of Cleveland Heights. (6th book in the series)
Roberts, Les.
ROBER A distraught father asks Milan Jacovich, Cleveland's dogged Slovenian-American private eye, to discover why his daughter Ellen jumped off a bridge to her death. (PW) 12th book in the series
Hightower, Lynn S.
HIGHT Homicide detective Sonora Blair investigates the disappearance of a woman who came to a conference in Cinncinnati. (Second book in the series)
Hightower, Lynn S.
HIGHT Sonora Blair, a Cincinnati homicide detective, is introduced in this mystery about a college student handcuffed to the steering wheel of his car, naked and on fire. (First book in the series)
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Cleveland gumshoe Milan Jacovich takes on the case of finding out what happened to a magazine that sold advertisement but was never published. Soon he finds himself involved in murder and with the mob.
DeBrosse, Jim.
DEBRO Rick Decker, crusading reporter on the Cincinnati Eagle, tackles the bubonic plague--and almost succumbs to it himself.
Roberts, Les.
ROBER For Milan Jacovich, P.I., corporate spying is routine, but a child in jeopardy means a hunt to the finish. (Amazon.com) 11th book in the series
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Milan Jacovich finds himself seaching for a murderer when he agrees to go to a posh suburb on the Lake Erie Shores and protect a local candidate for mayor. (5th in the series)
Hightower, Lynn S.
HIGHT Only Cincinnati homicide detective Sonora Blair believes that Dixon Chauncey is involved in the disappearance of his daughter. Now she must prove it.
(Third book in the series)
Roberts, Les.
ROBER Cleveland P.I. Milan Jacovich searches for a missing advertising executive in this first book of the series. (1st book in the series)
DeBrosse, Jim.
DEBRO Cincinnati Eagle reporter Rick Decker thinks he has found the story that he has always wanted...one that will being him recognition. But is it worth dying for?
Roberts, Les.
ROBER When the movie idol he agrees to act as bodyguard for attacks a local girl, Milan Jacovich resigns from the job. Soon he is hired to find the actor's murderer. (9th book in the series)
DeBrosse, Jim.
DEBRO Cincinnati reporter Rick Decker goes on a Caribbean cruise to look into the disappearance of a member of one of Cincinnati's wealthies families.
McInerny, Ralph M.
MCINE The first book of a new mystery series finds Captain Egidio Manfredi of the Fort Elbox, Ohio police force investigating the disappearance of a professor's young wife whose first wife also disappeared more than thirty years ago.
ROMANCE
Crusie, Jennifer.
CRUSI A humorous romantic novel about the changes in the life of high school art teachers, Quinn McKenzie, a woman who finds a dog and changes her whole life.
Crusie, Jennifer.
CRUSI Set in German Village, Nell Dysart, recently divorced, finds a new job in a detective agency and finds her life suddently full of mystery, adventure and love.
Galloway, Shelley.
GALLO Mary Beth McKinley buys a hundred-year-old house with the intention of fixing it up...but a treasure hunt sidetracks her first.
Crusie, Jennifer.
CRUSI This laugh-out-loud romantic mystery tells the story of Maddie Faraday who decides to divorce her husband right before he is found dead.
Crusie, Jennifer.
CRUSI "Prepare to be absolutely charmed by Jennifer Crusie's riotous tale of two slightly twisted sisters and a town chock full of hunks, coots, and petty politics." (Amazon.com)
WESTERN
Grey, Zane
GREY In one of the final battles of the American Revolution, ictory depends upon the courage of Betty Zane in this first book of the Fort Henry Trilogy.
Grey, Zane
GREY When a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians kidnap a woman from Fort Henry, Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane must follow their trail into the unknown wilderness, where they will face their bloodiest battle. (Ingram)
Grey
GREY The second book in the Forst Henry Trilogy again relates the story of the Ohio Valley frontier as one of the frontiersman takes a beautiful Indian princess as his bride.
YOUNG ADULT
Rinaldi, Ann.
RINAL In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
HADDI An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
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