Name a book that takes place where you live.

The Curse of Lono By Hunter S. Thompson

It's pretty wild, HST talks about geographical features in the book that I see everyday. In the back there is a photo of him stand on the pier at Kailua-Kona.

but my mother recently told me she was reading a dimestore mystery that takes place in the city I live in, as that is where the author is from.

:hi:

:D

It mentions a lot of mundane South Florida stuff I see all the time, like the Brandsmart.

:-)

The Woodstock Murders A Mystery by Jon Froscher.

"Introducing the sexy, gay Senior Investigator Tom Wilder. One by one a local family is murdered and nearly everyone in town seems to be a suspect. Set in Woodstock, New York, and packed with all the camp of a Broadway musical, as bitingly funny as the books of Robert Rodi, and with all the intrigue of a Joseph Hansen novel."

One of many Seattle-set books.

:hi:

It is the place where Washington crossed the Delaware. In the first chapter of that book, a prelude to the rest of the book - the real book starting in the second chapter with the greatest opening line ever used in fiction, ("Listen."), Kurt Vonnegut describes visiting Washington's Crossing Park here in Hopewell, New Jersey.

And "Cannery Row" is in the general vicinity.

I don't live in Madison County, but I do live in Iowa.

:shrug:

Al Dewlin's "The Bone-Pickers" and a couple of series by local mystery writer D.R. Meredith (one of her characters lives on my street). Non-fiction: Blessed Assurance by A.G. Mojtabai.

A true cop story about a special San Diego PD force that investigated and enforced the law on the San Diego - Mexican border.

A police procedural set in my hometown in Southern Ontario, in the months prior to the start of WWII. The landmarks described are still there today, or you can talk to people who remember them well. (The California condor was gone, but the aviary was still there at Dundurn Castle, during my childhood.)

I was really impressed by how clearly he described how different life was, in the era before television. Much of the action takes place at a small neighbourhood movie theatre, where the locals gathered -- the same one where my dad took me to see my first movie ("Fantasia").

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When I lived in Carson City/Reno area for 20 years, I loved reading Roughing It. It had so many places where I went to often in northern NV and the NV/CA Sierra area.

Now am in Central Valley CA...am sure there are some books, but can't think of any at the moment :eyes:

know the names of them.

However, parts of the novel "The Firm" were set near the part of Kentucky where I grew up, in Nashville and in Memphis.

:-)

... and I'm busy writing it at the moment.:argh:

Won an award for the "scenario" last week so there's a decent chance it will be published ....

The Skin

Yes, that Robert McNeil (the one who made the News Hour worth watching, which it's not any more). :toast: It's set in Halifax, NS during the famous Explosion of 1917, like most Halifax-based novels.

Also Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan. It's set in Halifax during the famous (suddenly I am run over by a truck).

Take place mostly in Bisbee,near Tucson. With
occasional scenes in Tucson.

Everyone--read this book. It's about a gardener who gets transformed by Salem, Oregon and its surrounding areas. There are few great things about living in the Willamette Valley in Western OR, but the greenery isn't one of them. I hate a lot of things about this part of the state, except the outdoors. Still pretty.

from Amazon:

In 1974 mutilated bodies of three Navajo men were found near Farmington, N.M., an Anglo community on the edge of the Navajo reservation where rolling Indian drunks had become a teenage rite of passage. Soon three Farmington high school boys admitted guilt and received light sentences as juveniles. Upon hearing in 1988 that the three young murderers had become victims of Navajo witchcraft (one died in an unlikely auto accident and the other two have become psychologically unstable), Barker ( The Hiroshima Maidens ) began research into the so-called Chokecherry Massacre. Projecting into the minds of the perpetrators, he delivers a chilling and remarkable tale. Reading much like a Tony Hillerman novel, the book also exposes the roots of racial intolerance between Native Americans and whites and suggests that Indian medicine men indeed have supernatural powers.

I went to high school with him and know a lot of the places he talks about in DC. My favorite is King Suckerman
http://www.twbookmark.com/features/georgepelecanos/bookshelf.html

Glass Managerie by Tennesee Williams

A funny little book. :hi:

I don't live there any longer (a town called Ada) but did at the time the events took place.

It's a True Crime book and like all such beasts is greatly sensationalized with a lot of fiction amongst the fact. It was a pretty big deal, though, at the time. A woman was kidnapped out of a convenience store, and two men were tried for her murder with no body having been found. One of those convicted was severely mentally handicapped, the other just not the brightest bulb in the box.

The title comes from one of the convicted's pre-arrest statement in which he claims he had a dream that he killed the kidnapped woman, this statement being used to convict him.

I later worked at the store from which the woman was abducted. No one who lived around there felt the real criminals were caught. Kind of a creepy deal.

in Lassen, the Trinities, the Klamaths, and the Siskiyou basin, but not much here. :(

by Brad Fraser. It's a play, not a novel.