Maine Books: Adult Fiction Set in Maine
The books listed here are set completely or partially in real or imaginary places in
the state of Maine. They're in alphabetical order by author, with links to author entries
on our Maine Writers Index, if applicable (not all
books set in Maine are written by Maine authors, and, we still have entries
to write on many more Maine writers.) To suggest a book for the
list, please contact us.
Please note that the Waterboro Public Library does not have most of these books!
AARONS, Edward S.
See also Edward Ronns
- Assignment Unicorn (1976): One of a series of 'Assignment' novels, CIA adventure stories
featuring Sam Durrell. Sam must destroy a strange drug and a madman
who wants to control the world.
ABBOTT, Sandra
- Whispering Gables (1968): Suspense. Death by suicide to one
woman in each generation -- this is the ancient curse that Eleanor
Lawrence hears about for the first time while visiting her aunt
at Whispering Gables. At first she scoffs at the old wives' tale. Set in Maine.
AEBI, Will
- The Wedding Day: A Mystery (2002): Story of a Nebraska woman's move to Maine
and the mystery that unfolds on her wedding day. Aebi lives in Steep Falls.
AGORI, Ken (aka Robert Koenig?)
- Defenders of the Holy Grail: Action/thriller. While vacationing on Nantucket,
Elise, a woman from Maine, discovers ancient manuscripts that question
the accuracy of Biblical events. The Crusades are relived through
psychic flashbacks. Plot moves up and down the New England Coast. 132 pp.
ALBERT, Marvin H.
- That Jane From Maine (1959): Novelisation of
film titled 'It Happened To Jane,' a breezy 1959 film starring
Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs. About a woman who
runs Maine lobstery taking on an ultracheap villain.
ALEXANDER, Betsy
- Path Through Deep Waters (1998): An old-fashioned tale told
in the vernacular of early Maine. Julia's story is interwoven with
those of the people she meets as she comes for healing and rest to a
small Maine island town. 349 pp.
ALLEN, Elizabeth Akers [Allen Author Information]
- The Triangular Society: Leaves from the Life of a Portland Family (1886): Allen's only novel.
A rather autobiographical and humorous domestic novel, interspersed
with verses.
ALSOBROOK, Rosalyn
[See entries for Victoria Barrett for others in this collaborative series.]
- The Perfect Stranger (1996): Paranormal romance. 2nd in the Seascape series. High-powered business
executive Nicolle Stone wants nothing more than to be left alone
and to escape the pressure to marry fellow executive Willett Porterfield. A vacation
at the Seascape Inn seems like just the ticket. Unfortunately, before Nicolle
even finishes unpacking, she spies Willett. Desperate to make him leave, she
convinces fellow vacationer Joel Brandon to pretend to be her lover for
the few minutes it will take to drive Willett away; but when the persistent
Willett flatly refuses to go, Nicolle and Joel must continue the charade. 324 pp.
- For the Love of Pete (1997): Paranormal romance. Ghosts, an intuitive eight-year
old boy (Pete), and an unrequited love are the ingredients in this, the fourth book
in the Seascape series. The Seascape Inn, a mystical bed and breakfast
in Maine, plays a major role. 298 pp.
- Tomorrow's Treasures: A Seascape Romance (1997): Paranormal romance. #6 in the
Seascape series. Damon Adams doesn't want to get married, and his
daughter, Jeri, doesn't want another female around, but Damon does
want the contract that will keep the business he inherited from his
father afloat. In order to get the contract, he agrees to his friend
Blair's proposal to have her younger sister, Paige Brockway, accompany
Damon and Jeri for their stay at Seascape Inn, a magical bed-and-
breakfast in Maine. 342 pp.
AMOS, Diane [Amos Author Information]
- Getting Personal (2003): Romance novel that features Monique St. Cyr, an impulsive
obituary writer in Maine whose erotic-fiction-writing mother gets her involved
in a research project meeting men online.
- Mixed Blessings (2004): Sequel to Getting Personal. Follows Monique's
relationship with her old-fashioned Aunt Lily, who moves in next door after
Monique's mother leaves on a 3-month honeymoon.
- Winner Takes All (2005) : Set in Maine. When a computer spits out 2 winning tickets, Thomas
and Karen each attempt to win a contest to settle the matter.
- A Long Walk Home (2005): Annie agrees to have her sister's 13-year-old daughter come live with her in Maine, but is unprepared for the wild girl in
black and body piercings who drives a wedge between Annie, her lover, and her friends.
ANASTAS, Peter
- No Fortunes (2005) The story of four friends on the campus of a
small Maine college during the winter and spring of 1959.
ANDREW, Mark
- Falling Bodies (1999): Tear-jerker. In Illinois, physics professor Jackson Tate
cannot grasp the random act of a drunken driver killing his
spouse and children. Unable to cope with the trauma, he runs
away from his grief by hitting the highway, eventually ending up in
Maine where he meets a fellow sufferer, whose husband has been lost to Alzheimer's.
ANDREWS, Donna
- Murder with Puffins (2000): Second book in Meg Langslow series (after Murder with Peacocks).
Set on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, not in the heroine's small Virginia home town. WPL
APPLETON, Jane Sophia and Cornelia Crosby Barrett
- Voices from the Kenduskeag (1848): Anthology of anonymous work
by Bangor authors, published to raise money for the Bangor Female
Orphan Asylum. Includes utopian short story of an idealised Bangor where
there's no slavery, good transportation, worldwide communication, and women
remain tied to their households. 286 pp.
ARENSBERG, Ann
- Incubus (1999): During a killing heat wave and
drought in Dry Falls, Maine, a mysterious supernatural entity, with
a drive beyond mere sexual desire, stalks the tiny
spellbound town.
ARMSTRONG, Kelley
- Stolen (2003): Horror. In the Maine woods, wealthy computer guru
Ty Winsloe keeps 'mythological' creatures in a glass prison, employing witches
and a shaman to help him find his prey.
ASHBAUGH, Regan / [Ashbaugh Author Information]
- Downtick (1988): Financial thriller revolving around a major player on
Wall Street who moves to Maine seeking refuge from a
psychopath who's pursuing him.
ASKARI, Brent
- Not Ready for Prime Time (1999): Justine Nichols, a
young vocalist for an all-female band in Portland, Maine, has five secrets
that even her closest friends don't know. This is a tale about remembering, forgetting,
growing up, and, most importantly, surviving.
AUGER, Alas Ellis
- The Sagamore of Old Orchard (1943): Historical fiction. Fictionalized
account told in the first person of the life of John Bonython, one of the original
settlers of the portion of the Southern Maine Coast now known as
Old Orchard. The narrative is based on fact and includes description
of life in the mid 1600s and relations with the Indians at
that time.
AXLER, James
- Deathlands #7: Dectra Chain (1988): Sci-Fi. The world blew
out in 2001, but there were survivors, struggling to overcome a dark new age
of plague, radiation sickness, barbarism and madness. Out of the ruins comes
Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors. Emerging from
a gateway in Maine, Ryan confronts a ruthless and brutal sea captain,
a woman prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wants.
- Deathlands #25: Genesis Echo (1995): Sci-Fi. The warrior survivalists
are reluctant guests in a reactivated twentieth-century medical institute
in Maine. Here scientists still pursue their abstract theories, oblivious to
the realities of a world gone mad. But when they take an unhealthy interest
in Krysty Wroth, the pressure is on to find a way out of this guarded
enclave.
AZZOLINA, Ronald
- Suicide, Inc. (1999): E-book/Print-on-Demand.
Thriller. Dan Antinori, management consultant, has moved to Maine to
distance himself from a violence-plagued past. As a favor to
his girlfriend, he agrees to assist her old college roommate, whose
estranged husband, Howard, recently killed himself for no apparent reason.
Sparked by a tip that Howard's death was not a suicide, Dan gradually
uncovers a chilling conspiracy. Working in complicity with the health care czars
of three New England states, a national medical services company is promoting
and offering assisted suicide to non cost-effective patients.
BACHMAN, Richard (aka Stephen King) / [Stephen King Author Information]
- Thinner (1984): Horror. Billy Halleck -- 50 lbs. overweight, good husband, loving
father, practices law in New York City -- sideswipes an old Gypsy
woman as she's crossing the street in their quiet little southern Connecticut
town of Fairview, and suddenly everything in his pleasant, upwardly
mobile life changes, including his size. He's pleased when he begins to
lose weight, and then terrified when he can't stop, no matter how much he eats
Denoument occurs in rural Maine.
BAIN, Donald
A few of Bain's books, based on the Jessica Fletcher "Murder, She Wrote"
series, are set in fictional Cabot Cove, Maine.
- Brandy and Bullets (1995) : Cabot Cove's posh retreat offers struggling
artists a European spa, psychiatry and even hypnotism. But soon a suicide
attempt and a brutal murder quickly arouse the sheriff's attention -- and
Jessica's. And when an old friend mysteriously disappears, Jessica fears
a twisted genius is at work writing a scenario for murder.
- A Little Yuletide Murder (1998): After years of traveling during the Christmas
season, amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is happy to be at
home in Cabot Cove, Maine for the holidays. But when the local farmer who portrayed
Santa Claus for the past 15 years is murdered, Jessica has a
killer to catch. With an innocent man's future at stake, will she deliver the
murderer in time for Christmas?
- Trick Or Treachery (2000): This Halloween-themed installment returns
to Cabot Cove for its setting. At the heart of the plot is a self-proclaimed
medium claiming to be able to make contact with the spirit world, and
the accusations that fly to and fro begin to shed a new light on a suspected
arson-related death in the recent past.
BAKER, NICHOLSON
- A Box of Matches (2003) : Likely set in Maine (author lives in South Berwick).
Thinly veiled non-fiction. During one January in rural New England, the 44-year old narrator Emmett
rises early, lights a fire, and writes what comes to mind, generally about the minutiae of life.
When he finishes the box of matches, the book is done. Meditative.
BALDACCI, David
- Total Control (1995): Legal/financial thriller. Takes place in
Virginia, Seattle, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and Maine.
Jason Archer is a rising young executive at the world's leading technology
conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer
has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He
is about to disappear in a plane crash -- leaving behind a wife
who must sort out his lies from his truths.
BALLING, L. Christian
- Revelation (2000): John Reese takes matters into his
own hands after his daughter is viciously stuck down in her Harvard
laboratory by late-night intruders. While she lies in a coma, fighting
for her life, Reese struggles to unravel a puzzle that hinges on a
mummified relic stolen from the lab. Reese's search takes him to remote
Miracle Isle off the coast of Maine, home base of a megalomaniacal southern preacher,
where he uncovers a revelation that may shock the world.
BARNETT, Jill
- Carried Away (1996): Historical Romance. The proud descendents
of a Highland clan, Calum and Eachann MacLachlan now
live in seclusion on an island off the coast of Maine. The brothers
are as different in spirit as they are in looks, but they have one thing
in common: they both need brides. Eachann finds the perfect brides
while spying on a fancy society party: Georgina is basking in the light
of her own ball, while Amy is valiantly struggling to conceal
her first broken heart. Within moments, both women are swept
away by a strange Scotsman. Kidnapped, captive and furious, they
find themselves stranded on a misty island with two brothers and only
each other for support. Although the two women were social enemies, their
predicament forces them to work together.
BARRETT, Victoria (AKA Vicki Hinze)
[See Rosalyn Alsobrook entry for others in this collaborative series.]
- Beyond the Misty Shore (1996): Paranormal romance set in Maine.
- Upon A Mystic Tide (1996): Paranormal romance. John and Bess Mystic are on the brink of a divorce
after a long separation. Now, with Bess's job threatened, the judge handling
her divorce ordering her arrested for contempt, Bess feels certain there's
no way things can work out. She hadn't reckoned on the power of love to heal,
or the aid of the magic of Maine's Seascape Inn!
- Beside a Dreamswept Sea (1997): Paranormal romance. To provide a change of
scenery that he hopes will help his three distraught children cope with the pain felt from the recent death
of their mother, a guilt-racked Bryce Richards takes his family to the Seascape Inn in Maine. His plan is to share in
their healing alongside the misty Maine coast. Caline Tate is on her way to Nova Scotia when she hears the mystic call of
the enchanted Inn. Upon arrival, Cally quickly realizes that she has found her destiny, but she carries
scars from her past marriage. However, this is Seascape, where
two people hurt by previous relationships can feel the magical healing of the place.
BARRINGTON, Robert
- Some Valiant Ones (1937): Historical fiction
about Pittston, Maine. 217 pp.
BARRON, Marianne (pseudonym for Nina M. Osier) / [Barron/Osier Author Information]
- Second Chances (2001): In a Maine coastal community in 1967, a widowed
preacher is doing his best to bring up two teenagers.
BARTLETT, Arthur C.
- The Runaway Dog Team (1929; ill. Harold Cue): Old-fashioned adventure
novel of Prohibition Era rum running across the border from Canada into northern Maine.
Lawless men use sled dogs to accomplish their ends, until those
same dogs help bring them to justice. Also suitable for young adults. 306 pp.
BAYER, William
- Punish Me With Kisses (1980): Psycho-sexual thriller charged with eroticism and menace.
This story of two sisters begins in Bar Harbor, Maine, where Suzie is murdered. It continues three
years later as her sister Penny, now living in New York, finds Suzie's sex diary,
propelling her toward a horrifying secret.
BEACH, Curtis
- Down East Sketches (1993): 66 pp.
- Down East Parables: Stories From the Coast of Maine (1987):
Booklet, 71 pp.
BEALE, Will
- Frontier of the Deep: A Tale of the Great Northeast (1925): (RL: Juvenile)
A fictional account of St. Anne's in Canada. Set from the sea country of Maine
to Newfoundland. 320 pp.
BEAN, Miss Fannie
- Pudney & Walp, Two Millionaries of Maine: A novel (1893): 328 pp.
BEATTIE, Ann
- Perfect Recall (2001): Eleven short stories, set in Key West and Maine
(including "Hurricane Carleyville").
BECKHAM, Barry
- My Main Mother (1971): Novel about growing up black in Maine and
in Harlem, examines what it feels like to be
black in a predominantly white society.
BELISLE, Lisette
- Her Sister's Secret Son (2001): Silhouette Special Editions #1403.
Romance. Though she'd spent a lifetime in her flamboyant twin's shadow, Rachel
Hale adored selflessly, single-handedly raising her late sister's son.
But with no time for dating, Rachel couldn't give her beloved nephew
the daddy he deserved, until stubborn granite-eyed Jared Carlisle from Maine discovered little
Dylan was his.
BELLEMARE, B.J.
- Freedom Bay (2002): Set in 1968 Maine. The members of
the Lamont family are looking for personal fulfillment and freedom.
BEMIS, Michael E.
- Snow Waste (2003): Set in fictitious Cannon (near the real
towns of Dixfield and Clifton), in western Maine, economically
dependent on the White Woods Ski Resort. A story of ethical
values, greed, and personal motivation, told through the perspectives
of the chief of snowmaking for the White Woods Ski Resort, the
owner of White Woods, and an environmental activist with a past.
BENJAMIN, Ruth
- Naked at Forty (1984): Set in New York City and Maine. Marian Bartolph,
a 40-year-old Maine mother, housewife and would-be poet, runs into her first love, Myles, whom she
has not seen or heard of since her youth, at a convention in New York.
She is exposed to some of the seamy side of Greenwich Village and to
sexual situations both wild and predictable. She also learns something about her
parents' death many years ago, with which Myles was involved. She is
convinced that when she returns home, nobody in Maine will know she has changed, and she will
be free to begin exploring her life.
BERGREN, Lisa Tawn
- Torchlight (1994): Christian Romance. Full Circle series, #2.
After inheriting her family's lighthouse and mansion, heiress Julia
Rierdon, sister of Jake Rierdon (Refuge), travels to
the coast of Maine to restore the estate and turn it into a
lavish inn. Temporarily separated from her wealthy fiance, Julia turns
to a mysterious stranger for assistance. Motorcycle-riding handyman
Trevor Kenbridge is gorgeous, infuriating, and just the man she
needs to help her prepare the inn. Could he also be the right man to claim her heart?
- The Captain's Bride ( ): Christian Historical Romance. Northern Lights series, #1.
Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a
new life with their closest friends. From the gentle hills of Bergen, Norway, to the
rocky coast of Camden, Maine, and across the open sea, this is an epic saga of
perseverance and passion, faith and fidelity,
BERRY, David
- The Whales of August: A Play in Two Acts (1984):
Play set in an island on the Maine coast. 64 pages.
BIRD, Beverly
- With Every Breath (1996): Maddie Brogan, fleeing her deranged ex-husband,
returns to a remote island off the coast of Maine where a childhood
tragedy, which she does not remember, stirs up some of the islanders
who want to make sure that she never remembers. 448 pp.
BISBEE, Ernest E.
- The State O' Maine Scrap Book of Stories & Legends of Way Down
East (1940/1946): 56 pp.
BISHOP, Mary
- Hunter's Hill (1973): From the moment Eden Chase
arrived at Hunter's Hill in Maine, the lovely young woman fell under the
dark spell of the owner and master of the isolated old mansion, Tony Hunter.
In this house of fear she was held captive by love. 303 pp.
BLACKINGTON, Alton H.
- Yankee Yarns (1954): New England tales from the rocky
headlands of Maine to the surf swept shores of Cape Cod to
the quiet villages of Connecticut. Blackington was an NBC Radio
broadcaster and this is a collection of tales of Yankees accumulated
over his career. 243 pp.
- More Yankee Yarns (1956)
BLAKE, Eleanor
- Death Down East (1940): Maine murder mystery. 241 pp.
BLAKE, Sarah
- Grange House (2000): Atmospheric novel of literary suspense and romance. Set 1898.
The morning after When Maisie Thomas, 17, arrives to spend the
summer with her parents at Grange House, a hotel off the coast
of Maine, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery: two drowned lovers,
found clasped in each other's arms and clinging to the broken mast of their tiny boat.
It's only the first in a series of events that cast a shadow of Maisie's summer. 375 pp. WPL
BLANCHARD, Alice
- Darkness Peering (1999/2000): Thrilling debut novel of a writer who won the
Katherine Anne Porter Prize for a book of short stories.
A young girl is murdered in the small town of Flowering Dogwood, Maine.
Eighteen years later, the murderer's identity is still a mystery and
a second killing has occurred. Rachel Storrow, the investigating officer, is
the daughter of the police chief who held that office at the time
of the first murder. His inability to solve the case, together with
his suspicions, led to his suicide. As Rachel's investigation continues,
it points in directions she'd rather not go. 240 pp.
BOORSTIN, Paul and Sharon
- The Glory Hand (1983): Horror. Cassie was coming to Camp Casmaran to fulfill her
mother's dying wish, not knowing that she would be initiated into a hellish
occult secret society! 289 pp. Set in Maine?
BORTHWICK, J.S. / [Borthwick Author Information]
Amateur sleuth Sarah Deane is an English Fellow at Maine's Bowmouth College during some
of the books in this series.
- The Down East Murders: A Mystery Set on the Coast of Maine (1985): Second in the series. Sarah Deane,
the English teacher amateur detective, is on summer holiday on a small island off the coast of Maine
and finds herself investigating the murder of a cranky local artist.
- The Student Body (1986): The tranquil flaculty life at a Maine college
is shattered for Sarah Dean and Dr. Alex McKenzie when they find a
campus ice sculpture of a Viking ship contains a well-frozen body
of a girl super-student.
- Bodies of Water (1990): A luxury cruise along the beautiful Maine coast hits rough waters when someone plots
a course for murder.
- The Bridled Groom (1994) : The author's sixth novel featuring English teacher Sarah Deane
and internist Alex McKenzie who here are planning a wedding
set on a Maine Farm.
- Dolly Is Dead (1995): Everybody loves Dolly Beaugard. At least that's
what everybody thought until Dolly's bloated body washed ashore on the same spot as
the drunken Gattling brothers the day before. Takes place Maine.
- Coup de Grace (2001) : 10th in the Sarah Deane series. Academic backstabbing and murder
at a bucolic New England girls' boarding school. Sarah is hired to teach English at Miss Merritt's,
only to land in the epicenter of legendary French professor Grace Carpentier's reign of
terror. Her passion for excellence has inspired universal fear and loathing. A
student discovers Carpentier's cloaked hanging effigy, then Sarah finds a bludgeoned
body wearing Carpentier's trademark cape, but the victim is not Carpentier. Is it a case of mistaken identity?
- Murder in the Rough (2002): Takes place in Maine, partly on a golf course.
- Intensive Scare Unit (2004) : 12th in the series. Sarah's 74-year-old cantankerous aunt, Julia Clancy,
proprietor of the High Hope horse farm, is in the hospital in Bowmouth, Maine, for open heart surgery.
While she's recovering, she is the last person to see a patient alive before he's found
strangled in the lavatory, and then a shadowy figure in hospital garb slips into her room
and tries to strangle her.
- Foiled Again (2007) : 13th in series. During rehearsals at Bowmouth College (in Maine) of the gender-bending Romiette and Julio,
student actors engaging in horseplay leave Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing
Mercutio, wounded. When Sarah stumbles on a badly injured student hidden away in a
stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time
the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured
and a student has been killed.
BOYLE, Gerry / [Boyle Author Information]
- Deadline (1993): Soon after former New York Times metro reporter Jack McMorrow
takes over the Androscoggin, Maine, newspaper, his staff photographer drowns
in a river. When police don't seem to care, McMorrow investigates, only
to learn his new home town is a haven for hidden alliances, secret pasts,
and murderous intentions.
- Bloodline (1995): 2nd Jack McMorrow mystery. While researching an article on unwed
teenage mothers for an upscale New England magazine, McMorrow discovers what
he believes to be a success story in a teenage mother named Missy Hewitt. But
when Missy is murdered soon after talking with McMorrow, he begins to investigate
and finds that the facts just don't add up.
- Lifeline (1996): McMorrow's girlfriend takes a job in
Portland, Maine, leaving behind an ultimatum. McMorrow rises to the challenge, signing
on as the court reporter for the Kennebec Observer. What he doesn't
realize is that he is about to become a suspect when a young woman is murdered.
- Potshot (1997): 4th in the Jack McMorrow series. McMorrow's search for the
truth about some hemp-growing hippies in rural Maine leads him into the
darkest side of the drug trade - and human nature.
- Borderline (1998): McMorrow travels to the sleepy town of Scanesett,
Maine, when a man disappears from a tour bus. No one seems to care,
except McMorrow, who knows there's a story too good to pass up.
- Cover Story (2000): Maine investigative reporter Jack McMorrow visits
New York intending to work freelance for the New York Times. When news
breaks of the mayor's murder and police arrest Jack's longtime friend, an ex-cop,
Jack's plans quickly change. Set in New York City and in Maine.
BRACE, Gerald W. / [Brace Author Information]
- The Islands (1936): Set in Maine.
BRADLEY, Mary Hastings
- Nice People Murder (1952): A steel magnate is murdered before he can cut
his philandering wife out of his will. An astute young attorney and his
friend, Korean War vet Capt. Cal Kent, look beyond the obvious to find the murderer.
Set on the rocky coast of Maine.
BRAHMS, Ann / [Brahms Author Information]
- The Burying Point (1991): Romantic suspense. A man watched Callie all evening long as if he
knew her. That night her roommate was murdered and her nightmare began.
She fled to a remote island to hide but it was also the perfect
place for another murder.
- Cloak of Darkness (1992): Romantic suspense, set in Maine.
- Run for Your Life (1993): Romantic suspense, set in Maine.
BREAN, Herbert
- The Clock Strikes 13 (1952): Mystery/suspense, set Maine. When murder strikes amongst ten
people trapped on an island that has been desolated by a weapon more
fearful than the atom bomb, the threat of extinction hangs over them all.
Experimental bacteriological warfare.
BRETTON, Barbara
- At Last (2000): Romance. Manhattan veterinarian Gracie Taylor returns
to her hometown of Idle Point, Maine, only to find that the man she loved and
left on the night of their planned elopment has returned, too. Highlights the destructive
side of obsessive love on innocent future generations. WPL
- A Soft Place to Fall (2001): Romance. To the tiny town
of Shelter Rock Cove, Maine, Annie and Kevin Galloway seem to have the perfect marriage. But
when Kevin dies suddenly, Annie is left with bittersweet memories, never-fulfilled dreams of children and artistic fame,
and massive debt from Kevin's secret gambling addiction.
BROOKS, Noah
- Tales of the Maine Coast (1894): Short story collection. 271 pp.
BROWN, Amy Belden
- Island Summer Love (1992): Romance. Planning her high-society wedding, she meets a rugged lobsterman.
A vacation from the pressures of her upcoming wedding brings
Allison more entanglements than she's ever known.
BRYERS, Paul
- The Prayer of the Bone (1998): Jessica arrives in
Bridgeport, Maine, from Oxford to collect the remains of her little sister,
who had been tracing their family's native American roots, and to
collect her nine-year-old daughter. What she finds is a police
investigation that is finding its way through tribal traditions
and shape-shifting shamans.
BULLARD, Laura Curtis / [Bullard Author Information]
- Now-A-Day (1854): Tells the story of adolescent Esther
Hastings who accepts a teaching position in the Aroostook County
backwoods when her father's death leaves her and her stepmother in
poverty. Another key part of the plot is set in Belfast.
- Christine, or Woman's Trials and Triumphs (1856): The first novel to promote
every demand of the women's movement. Christine is a women's right's lecturer
who founds a women's employment bureau. One of her trials is being duped
by her father and aunt who imprison her in the Augusta Mental Asylum.
BURLEIGH, Donald Q.
- The Kristiana Killers (1937): Mystery. Set in Maine and Canada.
BURNHAM, R.P.
- On a Darkling Plain (2005): Samuel Jellerson, 56 and forced into early retirement, is walking in
the woods behind the family farm in Maine one fall day when he witnesses a priest
molesting a boy.
- Envious Shadows (2005): A novel dealing with the integration of mentally-ill
halfway house residents back into society, racism, infidelity, and the struggle to survive economically in a small Maine town.
BUSHNELL, Adelyn
- Tide-Rode (1947): A sea-faring novel of Maine
in the 1870s, by a Maine actor and author and playwright.
BUSHNELL, Agnes
The Wilson and Wilder mystery series is set in Portland, Maine.
- Death by Crystal (1992): A Johannah Wilder mystery (lesbian sleuth).
Well-plotted mystery, evokes the romance of Maine (Portland area) and
addresses underlying serious issues of government power and individual freedom. WPL
- Shadow Dance: A Womansleuth Mystery (1989): A simple job takes Johanna into
life she's been trying to forget, peopled with Russian emigres and dissidents.
CALDWELL, Erskine
- Midsummer Passion & Other Tales of Maine Cussedness (1990):
Introduction by Upton Birnie Brady; edited by Charles G. Waugh and
Martin H. Greenberg.
CALIN, Anne
- A Multitude of Shadows (Terror and Violence in Maine) (1966): Gothic suspense.
Alexandra, married to a famous painter, Phillip Barton, struggles
to reclaim her new husband from the shadows of the past -- the
tragic death of his first wife while walking a treacherous path.
CAMERON, Dana
- Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery (2002): Brilliant, dedicated, and driven,
archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds
of years, and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured
professor of archaeology, she has recently unearthed evidence of
a 17th-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one
of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the
dead body that accompanies it -- a corpse washed ashore near the
site -- has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration. 352 pages
CAPUTO, Philip
- The Voyage (1999): Historical adventure/mystery. At the turn of the
century, a Maine fisherman sends his three sons to sea in June,
with orders not to return before September. A woman descendant of
the family recounts the boys' adventure in their schooner -- storms,
shipwreck, murder --as well as the father's motive and
the mystery of the mother's absence. 415 pp.
CAREY, Lisa
- In the Country of the Young (2000): A haunting tale of a man, who
while grieving the loss of his twin sister, is visited by the
ghost of a young Irishwoman who died in a shipwreck off the
coast of Maine in 1848. On All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into
the home of tortured artist Oisin MacDara, who lives in self-imposed
exile on Tiranogue Island, by a candle flickering in the window. It is
the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended in a shipwreck on the island's
shore more than a century earlier.
- Love in the Asylum (2004): A manic-depressive writer and
a self-deluding junkie find love and salvation in a mental hospital. Set in
Maine.
CARPENTER, William / [Carpenter Author Information]
- The Wooden Nickel: A Novel (2002): Lucky Lunt is a third-generation lobsterman, but
his world is changing too fast for him. His wife has begun selling sea-glass
sculptures to tourists, his daughter is college-bound and his son has
turned angry and lawless. Lucky's own heart is failing him, too, so much that he must hire a female deckhand,
the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler. In short
order, Lucky is in a lobster war and has kicked over all the rules:
family, health, finance, even the rules of the sea.
CARROLL, Gladys Hasty / [Carroll Author Information]
- Few Foolish Ones (1935): Novel about four southern Maine families during
the period 1870 to 1930.
- As the Earth Turns (1939): Portrayal of Maine rural life in the 1920s of one family,
their children, and the decisions they make.
- Dunnybrook (1943): Fictional history and genealogy of the
Emery's Bridge area of South Berwick.
- West of the Hill (1949): Heart-warming novel about Maine people two generations ago, simple
Americans, the salt of the earth; and their experiences
- One White Star (1954): A novel concerned with the fundamental
relationship that exists between man and God and which features a normal
American woman, aged 39 in 1954. Set in Maine.
- Sing Out the Glory (1957): Romance of Althea and Owen, set in
a Maine valley town.
- The Light Here Kindled (1967): A multigenerational story that starts
and ends in an old Maine farmhouse.
CASEY, Dorothy
- Leaving Locke Horn (1986): North Carolina author's first novel, set in
the town of Locke Horn, Maine, tells the story of Evelyn Hungerford, her gifted
artist brother Forrest, Ruth Benson who is in love with Forrest, their
parents, and their families and friends as they go about their lives.
CATES, Kimberly
- Lighthouse Cove (2002): On assignment, a photographer goes to the
coast of Maine to photograph a lighthouse and is confronted with an old love.
CATHCART, Dwight
- Ceremonies (2002): Novel inspired by the 1984
murder of Charles Howard in Maine, and what took place in
gay and lesbian communities after the crime.
CECLIIONE, Michael
- Muse (1998): When actress Johanna Brady goes to Maine, where her
new love, novelist Matt Lang, is writing his next best-selling thriller,
she finds herself playing the role of her life as he
becomes a secretive, irritable stranger, and Johanna descends
into a world of betrayal, madness, and cold-blooded murder.
CHAMBERS, Galen
- Lake Beatrice Factors (1998): Novel takes place at a bass fishing lake in Bridgton, Maine.
CHAPMAN, Janet / [Janet Chapman Author Information]
- Charming the Highlander (2003): First Highlander Time Travel Romance,
set in fictional Pine Creek, Maine. When a plane crash strands brilliant
scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone
in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger, Greylen MacKeage, a
sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman
he's destined to love.
- Loving the Highlander (2003): Second Highlander Time Travel Romance, set in Pine Creek, Maine.
"In 1200 AD during a clan battle in the Scottish Highlands, the Druid wizard Father Daar casts
a spell that accidentally sends several MacBain and MacKeage warriors into
the twenty-first century to include the MacKeage brothers Greylen and Morgan.
During the chaos of time transformation, Daar lost his magical staff in
a Maine pond. Since arriving and settling in their new century,
Greylen, now known as Michael, has married his modern day lover." [from Harriet Klausner review]
- Wedding the Highlander (2003): Third Highlander Time Travel Romance,
set in fictional Pine Creek, Maine. Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing
to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a
pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the
modern world by a wizard's spell.
- The Seductive Impostor (2004): The first in a dazzling duo of
romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast (fictional
Puffin Harbor) and the men who sweep them away. This one features Rachel Foster.
- Tempting the Highlander (2004): Fourth Highlander Time Travel Romance,
set in fictional Pine Creek, Maine. Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine
Creek at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run
from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a
housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland.
- The Dangerous Protector (May 2005): Second in a duo of sister romances,
set in fictional Puffin Harbor, Maine. Duncan Ross tries to wiggle his way into Willow Foster's heart -- assuming he can
get past the granite wall she's erected around herself.
- Only With a Highlander (Oct. 2005): Fifth Highlander Time Travel Romance,
set in fictional Pine Creek, Maine. Features Winter MacKeage.
CHASE, Mary Ellen / [Chase Author Information]
- Uplands (1927): Set in Maine.
- Mary Peters (1934): Story of a Maine seafaring family.
- Silas Crockett (1935): The story of 4 generations of a Maine seafaring family,
from young clipper captain to would-be physician who goes to work in herring factory
during Great Depression.
- Windswept (1941): Three generations of family life on the Maine coast.
- Mary Peters (1945): A young Maine woman, reared aboard a ship, moves ashore and lives through the
decline of the days of sail.
- The Edge of Darkness (1957): Set in Maine, the story develops around the death
of Sarah Holt, the matriarch of a small coastal village.
- A Journey to Boston (1965)
- The Lovely Ambition (1960): A Wesleyan parson who at the turn of the century brings
his wife and three children from England when he takes over a Methodist church in downeast Maine.
CHEE, Alexander
- Edinburgh (2001): Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, a Korean-American
child (Fee) growing up in Maine sings in a professional boys' choir.
When the choir director molests several boys in the choir, Fee and
his friends are consumed by grief, shame, and pain that endure long
after the choir director is arrested and imprisoned for his crimes.
Years later, as Fee tries to move forward in his life, he meets a student named
Warden -- the choir director's son, who knows nothing of his father's heinous
crimes -- and is left with no choice but to confront the demons and ghosts of his
brutal past. Debut novel. Winner of the Michener/Copernicus Society Prize.
CHILD, Lee
- Persuader (2003): The seventh Jack Reacher novel, set
at Richard Beck's home in Abbot, Maine.
CHUTE, Carolyn / [Chute Author Information]
All four books are about the small rural town of Egypt, Maine:
- The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1986): The author's first novel, she writes of the olden
days and the poverty in Egypt, Maine.
- Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (1988): The main character runs the only going business around so
by blood or money, he's pretty much got everybody by the neck. Novel examines the
social climate of small town Maine.
- Merry Men (1994): Third in the series. Presents thirty years in the lives
of four main characters: the town's gravedigger, its road commissioner,
a nob photographer, and a teenage girl.
- Snow Man (1999): Novel about a senator's wife and daughter held hostage by
a wounded ultra-right wing terrorist from Maine wanted for the murder of
another senator.
CHUTE, Patricia
- Castine (1987): Romance. After California's hectic trendiness palls on
them, writer Cassie Randall and her boyfriend, pop psychologist Greg Wier,
settle in quaint Castine, Maine, where she meets a Czechoslovakian
chaplain of Castine's Maine Maritime Academy.
CLAREY, Joanne [Clarey Author Information]
- Twisted Truth (2005): Set in Cumberland County, Maine, and starring forensic psychologist Christie McMorrow and detective Bill Drummond.
- Skinned (2007), based on her research into the child trafficking trade. Set in Cumberland County, Maine, and starring forensic psychologist
Christie McMorrow and detective Bill Drummond.
CLARK, A. Carman [Clark Author Information]
- The Maine Mulch Murder (2001): While bagging sawdust for mulching her
strawberries, Amy Creighton uncovers the body of a young man
who had come to rural Granton, Maine to locate his birth parents.
CLARK, Bruce
- Tales of Maritime Maine: The Vanished Years of the Maine Coast Brought to Life in
Three Absorbing Tales (1987): Includes Anthony's Luck; The Sisters' Song;
and The Last of the Coastermen. Three dramatic stories, all set in
a time when the waters off the coast of Maine were dotted with the
sails of working vessels, worked by men whose lives depended on the
sea, and of their struggles with its capriciousness and its ruthlessness. 165 pp.
CLARK, William M.
- Tales of Cedar River (1961): Short Stories set in
fictional Cedar River, Maine.
- The Hills of Maine and Other Stories (1989): More stories of
Cedar River folk.
CLEAVES, Charles Poole
- A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast (1904)
COATSWORTH, Elizabeth / [Coatsworth Author Information]
- Here I Stay: A Maine Novel (1938): Set in the early 1800s.
Story of courageous young Margaret Winslow, who chose to face life alone, against almost unbelievable odds,
when she decided to stay at her home on Horn Pond in Maine
rather than push westward to the Ohio country in the Western Reserve.
COLBERT, Jaimee Wriston
- Climbing the God Tree: A Novel in Stories (1998):
Winner of the 1997 Willa Cather Fiction Prize. In a prison in
Maine, a woman art therapist begins a relationship with a convict
serving time for murder. Her marriage is strained because her husband is
a womanizer and she welcomes the convict's attention, but what if
he falls in love with her? 208 pp.
COLWELL, Miriam / [Colwell Author Information]
- Wind off the Water (1945): A realistic view of a coastal
Maine village.
- Day of the Trumpet (1947): Novel based on Colwell's ancestors' experience
as one of the first Maine lobster families.
- Young (1955/1998): Twenty-four hours in the lives of two
young women who have just graduated from high school.
COMBE, Sharon
- Caly (1986): Horror. The mansion was cold and eerie, deliberately
hidden by a thick forest and left to decay in darkness. But
if they expected peace and quiet, they had come to the wrong place.
In their dream house in Maine, their worst nightmates come true.
CONANT, Susan
- Black Ribbon (1995): Mystery. Detective Holly Winter
thinks a week at Waggin' Tail, a camp for canines in the
scenic Maine woods, will be a vacation in pet heaven. When a
dog owner turns up dead in a freak accident, and the suspect is the
victim's own dog, Holly suspects a frame-up.
- Creature Discomforts (2001): When Holly Winter awakens clinging to a boulder on
the side of a cliff in Acadia National Park, she doesn't recognize her
own beloved Malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi. She follows clues back to
the guest house of a woman surrounded by an eccentric band of
preservationists. Soon, Holly finds out that she is about to become a killer's next victim.
CONNOLLY, John
- The Black Angel (2005): Investigating the disappearance of a young prostitute, Charlie
Parker encounters the myth of an object known as the Black Angel. Story partly set in Maine.
- Dark Hollow (2001): Thriller. Charlie "Bird" Parker returns in a moody thriller
set in the beautifully evoked Maine woods where Bird has come to lick his wounds and recover
from the murder of his wife and daughter explored in a previous book, Every Dead Thing.
- The Killing Kind (2001): Thriller. When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the
final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier,
private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises
that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery,
one that has its roots in her family history and the origins of the shadowy organisation known as the Fellowship.
- Bad Men (2004): Thriller set on an island ('Sanctuary') in Maine's Casco Bay.
Elements are an ancient massacre, a clannish populace, a 7-foot 2-inch sheriff and a woman
hoping to escape a hideous past, and revenge.
COOK, Thomas H.
- Places in the Dark (2001): Thriller. In autumn of 1937, a mysterious woman appears
in the sleepy little seaside village of Port Alma, Maine, and
changes the lives of two brothers forever.
COOLIDGE, Erwin L.
- A Maine Girl: A Realistic Romance of Down East (1892)
COOMER, Joe
- Pocketful of Names (2005): Set on a rocky Maine island, this novel features 34-year-old Hannah Bryant, a successful
artist who relishes her seclusion and privacy, and her relationships with her great-uncle, half-sister, and others.
COONEY, Ellen
- Gun Ball Hill (2004): Historical fiction. In 1774, friends and relatives of the
Mowlan family of Tibbetston, Maine, are shattered by a brutal murder that
is rooted not only in personal animosity but also in the growing unrest
in the American colonies.
COPELAND, Lori, and Angela Elwell Hunt
Heavenly Daze series set on a Maine island:
- The Island Of Heavenly Daze (2000): To a casual visitor, the island of
Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine.
It is filled with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with grey
cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard-
working folks -- most of whom are unaware that the island is inhabited,
according to divine decree, by angels. Unexpected hijinks and
heart-warming results occur when mortals and immortals cross paths.
- Grace In Autumn (2001): As the townspeople prepare for winter, sacks of undeliverable
mail are pouring in with different requests but the same salutation: Dear
Angel. When news of the letters spread, the townspeople divide over
what to do. Will the angels that watch over Heavenly Daze be able to help?
- A Warmth in Winter (2002): Heart-warming Christmas novel.
Story centers on Vernie Bidderman, owner of Mooseleuk Mercantile, and
Salt Gribbon, lighthouse operator, who despite the vast differences in
their struggles are being taught about the ultimate failure and frustration of self-reliance.
COREY, Deborah Joy
- The Skating Pond (2003): Set in an island village off the Maine coast.
A coming-of-age story of a young woman who is orphaned, has an affair with an older man,
marries a local boy, and is faced with a difficult decision when her former lover
reappears. Author lives in Castine.
COST, M. Langdon
- Mainely Power (2002): Mystery set in Brunswick, Maine. Concerns the murder
of a security supervisor at a power plant. ebook.
COUGHLIN, Thomas E.
- Maggie May's Diary (1998): The discovery of a diary she wrote
18 years ago, when she was fifteen, leads Maggie May to a new awareness
of who she is and what she values. Romance played out in Bedford and
Manchester, New Hampshire, and in the beach communities (Wells) of
Maine.
- Brian Kelly: Route 1 (2001): Coming-of-age novel. Brian
Kelly is leading a normal teenage life in Lowell, Mass., when his mother
suddenly uproots them both to live in the seaside communities of Wells and
Kennebunkport, Maine. In the landscape of his new home, Brian falls
in love for the first time with the clever, sharp-tongued Maggie May Keogh.
Sequel to Maggie May's Diary.
COULTER, Catherine
- Riptide (2000): Rebecca Matlock is a speech writer for the governor of New York when she receives
menacing phone calls from a stranger who refers to himself as her
boyfriend and who warns her that he will kill the governor. When the
police fail to protect her or even believe her, she seeks refuge in
Riptide, an isolated community on the Maine coast, where her guardian angel appears,
and this suspense thriller takes some dramatic twists and turns.
COURSEN, Herbert R. / [Coursen Author Information]
- The Thirteen Greatest Love Songs (1999): Richard Croft, professor and poet at a
small Maine college, is suspected of murder.
CRAWFORD, F[rancis] Marion
- Love in Idleness: A Tale of Bar Harbour (1894): Classic of Mt. Desert
Island in the Gilded Age.
CRONIN, Justin
- The Summer Guest (2004): A dying financier arrives at a remote Maine
fishing camp with a wish for one last day of sport -- and an astonishing bequest that
will forever change the lives of those around him.
CROSSMAN, David A. / [Crossman Author Information]
- A Show of Hands: A Maine Island Mystery (1997): Mystery.
Retired Intelligence Agent Winston Crisp has forsaken adventure and
is comfortably settled on peaceful Penobscot Island off the
Maine Coast, that is until the body of a young woman turns up.
- The Dead of Winter (1999): A murder mystery set on
Penobscot Island that rocks the peaceful Maine coastal community.
CUMMINGS, Rebecca / [Cummings Author Information]
- Kaisa Kilponen (1985): Stories about Maine's Finnish community.
- Turnip Pie, and Other Stories (1986): Stories about Maine's Finnish community.
DAILEY, Janet
- Summer Mahogany: Maine (1987): Romance. Harlequin Americana series.
DALY, Elizabeth
- Unexpected Night: A Henry Gamadge Mystery (1940): Mystery. First novel.
It was to have been just a quiet few days of golf and rest for
bibliophile Gamadge, but the script suddenly changed when young Amberly Cowden's
body was found at the base of a cliff.
- Deadly Nightshade (1940): Mystery. Author's second novel.
Urbane New Yorker Henry Gamadge, author and bibliophile, travels to
Maine to help to solve children's deaths by poisoning caused by a wild flower.
DANIELS, Jan
- Bride for Arundel (1966): Mystery story of a young couple who move
to the family home in Maine, published in Great Britain and
written by a British author.
DANTZ, William R. (AKA W. Rodman Philbrick)
- Pulse (1990): Thriller In the remote frozen hills of Maine, a top group of scientists gather
under a cloak of secrecy. A brilliant young female pathologist investigates
the horrifying situation.
DAVIS, Kathryn
- The Walking Tour (1999): Looking back on a fatal accident in Wales,
a daughter in the 21st century pieces together the events leading
up to her mother's death. Susan lives alone in her parents' ruined house
near the coast of Maine, addressing us from a future in which nature itself has been
drastically transformed, a future providing an unusual perspective on the way we live now.
Assisted by court transcripts, her mother's letters, photographs,
a notebook computer containing her mother's friend's journal, and a
menacing young vagrant named Monkey, Susan ultimately identifies the
moral predicament at the heart of her parents' lives and work.
DAVIS, Kathryn Ellen
- Polyester Pride (2002): Debut novel about Lisa Jones,
a poor Washington County clam digger married to an abusive, unfaithful alcoholic.
She finds a better life for herself, her own self-worth, and a stronger
relationship with Debbie, an old friend whose love makes Lisa's bravery possible.
DAVIS, Owen / [Davis Author Information]
- Icebound (1923): A comedic play of Maine family life in Veazie. Won Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
DAY, Holman F. / [Day Author Information]
- The Red Lane, a Romance of the Border (1912): Historical novel of
the border area between Maine and Canada.
- Leadbetter's Luck (1923): Lumbering in Misery Gore.
This is one of many novels with Maine background by this author.
DEAN, Robert George
- Affair at Lover's Leap (1953; also as Death at Lover's Leap):
Mystery featuring New York hard-boiled detective Tony Hunter in Maine.
DE BLASIS, Celeste
- The Night Child (1975): Suspense. When Brandy accepts a teaching job with
a psychologically disturbed child, strange things begin happening in
the huge Grey Mansion in Maine.
DEARBORN, Dawn A.
- Manchester (1999): Romantic murder mystery. Romance
blossoms when Carrie Blake hires Jake to do some repairs on her new home
in small town Manchester, Maine, where she moves from Massachusetts after her long-term engagement to
Robert is broken. Her sudden move adds spice to her life, in the form of fulfillment, romance
and even intrigue. Could it now include murder? 266 pp.
DELILLO, Don
- Players (1978): Lyle and Pammy Wynant were bored with their lives until Lyle
witnesses a Wall Steet murder and decides to play urban guerrilla and
Pammy runs off to Maine with her favorite odd couple.
DELINSKY, Barbara
- The Real Thing (1986): After breaking her leg, aerobics instructor Deirdre Joyce was
fit company for no one. Especially not for equally disgruntled Neil
Hersey, whose reputation as a lawyer had been unjustly tarnished. Craving
solitude, both turned to Victoria Lesser -- friend, owner of
a remote island, and cagey matchmaker. Finding themselves stranded together
off the coast of Maine, the volatile couple vowed revenge. But t
hen friction kindled a fire, and neither captive wanted to escape Victoria's
tender trap.
- Montana Man (1989; Harlequin Temptation): Lily wanted more than the shallow life she'd
been leading, so she packed up her baby daughter and headed off
to safety and a new start -- until a blizzard stopped her and she had to
ask a stranger for help. The man in the Stetson was their only chance for
survival in the snowbound car. He offered refuge, but would this leave her wanting more?
Set in Maine?
- Within Reach (1992): Spending time at their new Maine vacation home was
supposed to rejuvenate their marriage. Instead Danica finds herself spending
all of her time either alone or with her new neighbor, Michael, while
her husband stays behind in Boston, tending to his career.
- For My Daughters (1995): Caroline, Annette, and Leah St. Clair have
spent their lives trying to escape the legacy of their wealthy,
social-climbing mother, Virginia, who had little time and
even less feeling for her daughters.
- Flirting with Pete (2003): Set in the fictitious town of
Little Falls, Maine, and in Boston. When Pete, the father Casey Ellis never knew,
dies, he leaves Casey his townhouse on Boston's posh Beacon Hill. Casey plans to sell
the townhouse until she visits and becomes intrigued by the spectacular
hidden garden and its mysterious gardener, and by a journal in the desk
detailing the harrowing tale of a young woman named Jenny Clyde.
- The Summer I Dared (2004): Set off the coast of
Maine, this is the story of three lives irrevocably changed by a single tragic accident.
DEMARCO, Tom
- Dark Harbor House (2001): A simple little love story,
woven with tantilizing details of an old mansion's not totally
respectable history, and a hint of gentle satire added, create this
novel which the author describes as a gentle coming-of-age story that takes place in the
late 1940s on an island off the coast of Maine.
- Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie (2002)
: Twelve short stories, most set in Maine.
DENNISON, George
- Shawno (1984): Novella about the risks of bringing the city into the country and of
exposing the domestic to the wild. The story of a wonderful and helpful
dog as told through a human narrator. Set in Maine.
- Luisa Domic (1985): A novel of contemporary good and evil -- of family life
and the nurturing spirit invaded by political terror and the specter of
mass murder. The story is set against the golden days of October in
rural Maine. To the home of a strong couple with three remarkable children
come a composer and a political activist who is escorting a beautiful
woman (Luisa Domic), a victim of Chilean terror.
DENT, Lester (AKA Kenneth Robeson)
- The Squeaking Goblins (1969): One of the Doc Savage series. This story
first appeared in the August 1934 issue of Doc Savage Magazine.
Doc and his aides become involved in Maine with the heirs of
pirate treasure and a supposed ghost of a eighteenth-century backwoods sharpshooter.
- Up From Earth's Center (1990): Appeared in the last issue of Doc Savage
Magazine (Summer 1949), and published as part of Doc Savage
Omnibus #13. Doc and his aides investigate a Maine cave
which supposedly leads into the earth to Hell itself, accompanied by
a strange man who claims to be a minor demon who had escaped therefrom.
DEVERAUX, Jude
- The Summerhouse (2001): Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are
about to turn forty. They plan to share this occasion together at a
summerhouse in Maine, but none of them expects the gift that awaits them
at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to relive the past.
DEVEREUX, George H.
- Sam Shirk: A Tale of the Woods of Maine (1871)
DIBNER, Martin / [Dibner Author Information]
- Ransom Run (1977): Deep in the wilds of
the Maine woods, two young men are playing out a bizarre and
deadly game. One of them is a reckless, unpredictable psychopath, bent
on kidnaping, but capable of murder.
DICKSON, Margaret
- Octavia's Hill (1985): Mystery. Octavia's Hill was their legacy. Here Luther
Perry had brought the first Octavia as a bride. But there was a darker
side to Luther. He would leave a brutal and indelible stamp on the second
Octavia, his daughter, and on his great granddaughter, Tave. Set in rural Maine.
- Maddy's Song (1985): Tells the story of Maddy Dow,
a brilliant pianist, her family, and their life in the small town
of Freedom, Maine.
- Cliff Walk (1987): Marriage of a beautiful but insecure actress
and brilliant mathematician is threatened by dark figures from the past.
DINSMORE, Elsie O'Dell
- Jerusha's Tree (2006)
DISNEY, Doris Miles
- Find the Woman (1962): A Jeff DiMarco mystery, set partly in Connecticut
and partly in Maine.
- Voice from the Grave (1968): Set in the Maine backwoods. Adele,
Howie's doting and indulgent mother, refused to believe her only son
was dead - even when the wreckage of the canoe was found.
DOBYNS, Stephen
- A Boat Off the Coast (1987): Novel of Maine, lobstermen,
a Vietnam veteran, and a cocaine deal off the coast.
DODGE, Andrew Ian
- Mainely Romance (2001; iUniverse book): Romance. It
was the romance Reginald had always dreamed about, only his dreams were getting darker and
darker. His world of brew pubs and vats was suddenly invaded by
Cora Cabott of Cabott Cove, Maine. Ale was never as complicated as this!
DOMINIC, Randolph
- Pyrrhus Venture (1983; with William Barry): Historical fiction, set in Maine in early
19th century. 406 pp.
DUBOIS, Brendan
- Betrayed (2003): Thriller written from left-wing conspiracy POV
about an Air Force pilot who went MIA in Vietnam in 1972 but who
visits his younger brother in Berwick, ME, in 2003, making his family and
himself the targets of mercenaries whose employers need them
dead before they reveal the secret behind what happened to the MIAs [adapted from
Harriet Klausner review].
DUDLEY, Leroy
- Chimney Pond Tales: Yarns Told by Leroy Dudley (1997):
Assembled by Clayton Hall, Jane Thomas, and Elisabeth Hall Harmon.
Compilation of the yarns told by Leroy Dudley, guide and spinner of tales
at Chimney Pond on Maine's Mount Katahdin, who during the first
half of this century enchanted countless outdoor enthusiasts
with his stories about Pamola, The Penobscot Indian God of Thunder
who protected the mountain.
DULANY, Harris
- Falling (1971): A Vietnam veteran and
small-time boxer living with his family's secrets. Set in
a seacoast village in Maine in mid-winter.
EASTON, Thomas A. / [Easton Author Information]
- Bigfoot Stalks the Coast of Maine and other
twisted downeast tales (2000): Hilarious spoof of science
fiction and the stereotype of a small Maine town.
EDWARDS, Cassie
- Bold Wolf (1998): Romance. Shanna Sewell was warned by her father to
keep away from the Indians who shared the wildly beautiful Maine frontier. But
fate brought her face-to-face with Bold Wolf, the proud, sensual son of the Bear People's
chief (Penobscots). The encounter left her trembling, with something more than fear.
EDWARDS, Jean
: Novel about an Irish-American girl born in Appleton, Maine, who overcomes life's obstacles with her grit, determination, and optimism.
ELDER, Elizabeth / [Elder Author Information]
- Watching a River Freeze: Selections from Coastal Maine (2000):
Set in the fictional town of Bogs Harbor, Maine, this book is a collection
of short works including a novella, seven short stories, a short play, and two essays.
Includes a short story about town meeting, "What Counts in Bogs Harbor."
ELDRIDGE, George Dyre
- The Millbank Case, a Maine Mystery of To-Day (1905): Turn-of-the-century detective
novel set in Maine.
EMERSON, Kathy Lynn / [Emerson Author Information]
- Kilt Dead (Aug. 2007): Written under pseudonym Kaitlyn Dunnett. This is the first in a new series, set in the fictional town of
Moosetookalook, Maine, in the present day. Liss MacCrimmon is a professional Scottish dancer sidelined
by a knee injury who returns to her home town and walks straight into a murder.
EVANICK, Marcia
- Catch of the Day (2002): Romance. Gwen Fletcher is the only single girl in Misty
Harbor, Maine, and is surrounded by potential suitors. However, she's
got a restaurant to renovate and the carpenter she's hired seems
bent on avoiding her. Gwen needs to convince Daniel Creighton that
she's not trying to land a husband. But soon, small town
gossip has them together -- and it dawns on Daniel he's fallen for Gwen!
FAHY, Christopher / [Fahy Author Information]
- One Day in the Short Happy Life of Anna Banana and
Other Maine Stories (1988)
- Limerock: Maine Stories (1999)
- Chasing the Sun (2005): Set in the small Maine town of Garfield, this novel focuses
on an aging and dyspeptic poet who returns home to receive an honorary degree from Chamberlain College.
FAIRFIELD, Roy P. / [Fairfield Author Information]
- Amanda's Cove: A Maine Coastal Tale (1989): Set in Maine.
FAIRMAN, Paul
- That Girl (1971): A spinoff of the TV series of the same name,
with a gothic twist. Anne Marie, thinking she's getting a
part in a Maine-based production of Wuthering Heights,
instead finds herself among brooding mysterious families who
seem to be consciously reliving the lives and plot of the book.
FARR, Caroline (AKA Carter Brown)
There are probably other gothic novels by Farr set in Maine but I haven't been able to verify their settings.
- Mansion of Evil (1966): Gothic suspense. Lapped by the icy waters of the Gulf of Maine,
the mansion of Ravensnest brooded like a specter from the past over the fishing
town of Tregoney. To the gloomy ruin of a house came beautiful Diane Montrose on a nursing
assignment.
- Witch's Hammer (1967): Gothic suspense. An assignment any woman would envy: 21-year-old Samantha
Crawford is sent to Maine to interview Peter Castellano for Secrets
magazine. And moreover, the Valentino of the stage has specifically requested
that she write his biography.
- Ravensnest (1977): Gothic suspense.
- House of Valhalla (1978): Gothic suspense. Valhalla is a secluded mansion in Maine,
the home of the Richters, wealthy refuges from war-torn Germany.
It is here that beautiful young Lorna Mitchell is summoned by Johann Richter to help.
FARROW, John Pendleton
- The Romantic Story of David Robertson: Among
the Islands, Off and On the Coast of Maine (1898): 283 pp.
FICKETT, David
- Nectar (2002): From rural Maine comes a story of love and sacrifice,
of family tragedies and obligations, and of the mysterious healing
power of bees. This novel crosses three generations of beekeepers
to tell the story of Regina Merritt, a determined woman who is
forced at a young age to choose between happiness and survival.
FIELD, Rachel / [Field Author Information]
- Time Out of Mind (1947): Novel of the Maine
coast as the shipping trade dwindled and the first summer people came.
Follows four generations of a Maine shipbuilding family.
FIELD, Taffy
- Short Skirts (1989): Very short stories, some set in Maine in
various locales including Portland and Monhegan.
FINDLEY, Timothy
- The Telling of Lies (1986): An iceberg is spotted floating off the coast of Maine on
the shores of the beautiful old Aurora Sands Hotel, or ASH as it is fondly
called by its aging and wealthy clientele. The ASH has been sold, and the chilling iceberg
turns out to be a bad omen; one of the guests, Calder Maddox, an evil pharmaceutical mogul,
dies, and foul play is suspected. Though it has all the trimmings of an ordinary mystery -- the discovery
of a corpse, the search for clues, a complex plot and the kidnapping of a witness -- this
multilayered novel transcends the genre (review from Publisher's Weekly).
FITZPATRICK, Janine
- Serena (1976): Gothic suspense. Serena came to Gresham Island in a violent storm, narrowly escaping
drowning in the battering waves. This would be no peaceful haven, but the wild ocean
was no more violent than the bitter hatred in the people. Set in Maine?
FLANAGAN, Mary
- Rose Reason (1991): Spans lives, continents and decades
and reveals the force of a strictured upbringing and the traps
and liberations inherent in obsessive love. Explores working-class
Catholic Maine in the 1950s, NYC's Greenwich Village in the 60s, expatriate life
on a Greek Island in the 70s, and London toward end of the 80s.
FLINT, Margaret / [Flint Author Information]
- Back O' The Mountain (1940)
- Breakneck Brook (1939)
- Deacon's Road (1938)
- Down the Road A Piece (1941)
- Enduring Riches (1942)
- October Fires (1941)
- That Old Ashburn Place (1936)
FLORA, Kate Clark
- Chosen For Death (1994): Mystery. Thea Kozak travels
to Maine to track down the brutal murderer of her adopted sister, Carrie,
by retracing Carrie's search for her birth mother.
- Silent Buddy (1995): Novel about drug smuggling and the hardscrabble life
in a small Maine town. The hero is a high school biology
teacher.
- Liberty or Death (2003): Mystery. Thea Kozak is literally left standing at
the altar when her longtime love, state trooper Andre Lemieux, is
kidnapped by a right-wing militia group in a small Maine town.
FORD, Elaine
- Monkey Bay (1989): Set in a Maine coastal town, novel follows the actions of Marilla Pratt, who
abandons her daughter and husband to resume a relationship with Tucker Burchard,
causing dramatic changes in the lives of the other two. Years later, the
daughter returns and created problems for her parents in this portrait of unhappy lives.
Author is University of Maine English professor.
FOSTER, Elizabeth / [Foster Author Information]
- Singing Beach (1941): Fiction about Port Hard, Maine.
- Dirigo Point (1944)
FOX, Elaine
- Maybe Baby (2001): Romance. Feeling that Harp Cove, Maine, is the perfect place
to live with her little daughter, especially since she had a magical
encounter with a mystery man one summer night, single mother Dr. Delaney
Poole decides to invent a husband to avoid smalltown gossip, but
her plan goes awry when her mystery man materializes in the
form of her new landlord. 384 pp.
- If the Slipper Fits (2003): Romance. Anne Sayer and
wealthy heir Connor Emory fell in love on Candlewick Island, Maine, years ago,
but when Anne broke up with Connor for no apparent reason, he fled,
only returning now that his has father died, leaving him to manage the vast family business
holdings, including the Sea Bluff Inn on Candlewick Island.
FOY, George
- Challenge (1988): Paul Briggs, once a promising boat designer, has
fallen into despair over the disappearance of his wife and daughter.
He and his cousin Jack have been contracted by a well-heeled corporate
syndicate to design a yacht for the America's Cup competition. For Briggs,
this is a chance to save the Maine boatyard that's been in his family
for five generations, and the town of French Harbor, with its cast of
curmudgeonly Downeast inhabitants. The project takes on even more urgency
when Jack is murdered one night by an intruder clearly looking for
the yacht plans and test results. Suddenly Paul Briggs is tossed into
a maelstrom of murder, sabotage and treachery.
FRANCIS, Robin
- The Shocking Ms. Pilgrim (1989, Harlequin American Romance series):
Romance. Libby Pilgrim, staid and sensible college archivist, wouldn't have kidnapped Joshua Noon
without a very good reason. And what better reason could there
be than the protection of her beloved Maine coastline?
FRAZIER, Amy
- The Secret Baby (1995): Silhouette Bachelors and Babies series. Rugged outdoorsman Dante
Nichelini has loved Meg from afar for years and finally has the chance
to show it when she returns town. But trouble looms, because the spunky
single mom is convinced her that her son has a twin, a baby taken
from Meg at birth. Dante is the only man who can help her, but past secrets
threaten to shatter the happiness that he and Meg have found. Set in Maine. Author
is Maine native.
FROESE, Robert
- The Hour of Blue (1990): A story of global
environmental crisis set along the forested coast of Maine.
- The Forgotten Condition of Things (2002): Evelyn Moore, a clinical
psychologist recently moved to Maine, and her patient, Sophie Davenport, are the two
women at the center of the book, set in a mental hospital. Well-written. 299 pp.
GAGE, Elizabeth
- The Hourglass (1999): Three children, Kate, Lily and Jordan, forge a friendship based on
loneliness and encroaching tragedy. On a moonlit night, the teenagers make a promise
to meet at their favorite place, an abandoned golf course in a small
Maine town, in fifteen years. When Kate (who narrates the story) returns to the town and
the appointed spot, she sets in motion life-changing events.
GARRETT, Annie (pseudonym for Kelly Pryor) / [Garrett/Pryor Author Information]
- After You (1998): A man loses his memory in
a car accident. All he remembers is the summer he spent
in Maine when he was seventeen and the girl he spent it with.
GAUTREAU, Norman G.
- Sea Room (2002): Novel about three generations of a small, close
family living on a saltwater farm near the coast of Maine around World War II.
GERRITSEN, Tess / [Gerritsen Author Information]
- Bloodstream (1998): Lapped by he gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small
resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for
Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions
of the big city, and the lingering memory of his father's death.
But when a teenaged boy under her care commits an appalling act of violence
after Claire stops prescribing a controversial drug to the
troubled boy, her plans are shattered. Before she can defend herself,
a rash of new teenage violence erupts in Tranquility, forcing Claire to perform
increasingly risky emergency procedures. And when one of her patients
dies, the town's panic turns to fury. Shaken by accusations, and fearful
that Noah is now at risk, Claire desperately searches for a
medical cause behind the murderous epidemic. She begins to suspect that
the placid waters of Locust lake conceal a disturbing history, and an even
greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature, and
turn innocents to slaughter.
- Body Double (2004): Fourth in the Jane Rizzoli series set in the Boston area; Maura Isles, a
Boston medical examiner, travels to Fox Harbor, Maine, in this book.
GERSON, Noel B.
- The Highwayman (1955): A French spy stirs up all kinds of trouble in early Maine.
Classic colonial romance and crime.
GIBSON, Walter
- Crime Over Casco (1946; The Shadow series): Short pulp novel.
Involves storm-tossed secrets and a mysterious group of islands off the coast of Maine.
A beautiful girl threatens a bewildered young man, against a colorful background of
historic islands.
GILBERT, Elizabeth
- Stern Men (2000): The life of a small fishing village located on an island.
The rugged coastline and the Penobscot Bay are as present as are
the townsfolk in this tale of lobstering, love, and mystery.
GOODYEAR, Sarah
- View From A Burning Bridge (2006): Reporter Frances Treadwell moves into her ancestral
farmhouse in Maine. After a meteorite crashes in the woods nearby
local people suspect Frances might be trouble.
GORDON, Ethel
- Freer's Cove (1972): Gothic suspense. A spellbinding suspense novel set on
the rockbound coast of Maine, Gordon's writing sometimes compared
to that of Daphne du Maurier's. 249 pp.
GORDON, Lori A.
- Murder in Maine (2002): Returning home to Wyndham Manor, Anne tries to solve the
puzzle of her uncle's apparent suicide.
GOULD, John / [Gould Author Information]
- No Other Place (1984): The setting for this novel is
the area of Penobscot Bay around 1611, when Maine was claimed by both
France and England. Jabez Knight stakes out a claim to 500 acres and builds a homestead
at Morning River, where he lives with his family.
- Wines of Pentagoet (1986): Continues the saga of the friends and enemies of Elzada Knight,
who live on Morning River in "The Maine" before the American
Revolution. Sequel to No Other Place.
- Our Croze Nest (1997): A Novel of Morning River Farm,
far downeast on the Coast of Maine, at a time when summer
people have discovered the state.
GRANT, Richard / [Grant Author Information]
- Tex and Molly in the Afterlife (1996): Having survived the '60s, the Me Decade, Reaganomics and
the Republican Revolution, aging hippies Tex and Molly
of Dublin, Maine, refuse to abandon their principles for material
comforts, making them more suited than most for that long, strange trip to the other side.
GRAVES, Sarah / [Graves Author Information]
- The Dead Cat Bounce (1998): Since she bought her rambling old
fixer-upper of a house in Eastport, Maine, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken.
But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and
sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice
pick firmly planted in his cranium.
- Triple Witch (1999) : A crime wave is sweeping the quiet town of Eastport, Maine.
After discovering the dead body of Kenny Mumford, the town's petty thief and ne'er-do-well,
Jacobia Tiptree and her best friend set out to catch the killer.
- Wicked Fix (2000): For Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam,
September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's
special of a home in Eastport, Maine, until someone slits the throat of vicious
Reuben Tate and the police trace a bloodied scalpel to surgeon Victor
Tiptree -- Jacobia's former husband.
- Repair to Her Grave: A Mainely Murder Mystery(2001) : Jacobia Tiptree and her teenage son
are used to their Eastport, Maine, home attracting more than its share of
houseguests. This year Jake is hoping the plaster dust will keep them away while she
finally gets her gem of a fixer-upper into shape. But when the charming and
mysterious Jonathan Raines appears on her doorstep, and then just as suddenly
disappears, remodeling the house becomes the least of Jake's problems.
- Wreck the Halls (2001) : When Jake and Ellie arrive at Faye Anne Carmody's
kitchen door, they knock and walk right in. But though Christmas is
just two weeks away, what they find is far from festive: a dazed Faye Anne
covered with blood, and her no-good husband, the town butcher, nowhere in
sight; until Jake discovers his body tidily wrapped in his own butcher paper. Takes place
Eastport, Maine.
- Unhinged: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery (2003)
- Mallets Aforethought (2004): A skeleton dressed in 1920s flapper
chic pops out of a closet, putting Ellie's husband George in line for
a murder conviction.
- Tool & Die (2005)
- Nail Biter (2006)
GRAY, T.M. [Gray Author Information]
- Mr. Crisper (2004): Horror. Set in fictitious Kemperfield, Maine.
Involves the mysterious Mr. Crisper and his sinister snack food
manufacturing plant.
GREEN, Norman
- Way Past Legal (2004): Crime novel. Manny Williams, a cat burglar, tries to become a
good father (starting by kidnapping his 5-yr-old son, Nicky, from foster care) and ends
up hiding in Eastport, Maine. Involves Russian mafia.
GRIESEMER, John
- Signal and Noise (2003): Historical novel about the laying
of the first transatlantic cable, from 1857-1866. Set in Maine, London, the Atlantic Ocean, New York City, and Pennsylvania.
GROH, Brian
- Summer People (2007): A college dropout becomes the summer caretaker for
an eccentric matriarch in Brightonfield Cove, Maine.
GUTCHEON, Beth
- More Than You Know (2000): Hannah Grey returns to Dundee, Maine, to tell
the story of her true love and the ghost that haunted her one fateful summer.
Her story is paralleled by the tragic story of a family who lived in
the same house over 100 years ago. The family's story slowly reveals
the solution to a murder mystery that was never solved in the close knit
community.
- Leeway Cottage (2005): "Chronicles how an unlikely marriage endures over the course of
the 20th century. The novel is anchored in the idyllic, fictional summer colony of Dundee,
Maine, which will always feel like home to Annabelle Sydney Brant, but turns on the story of
the Danish resistance against the Nazis in WWII, a revolt Annabelle's Danish-born, half-Jewish husband,
Laurus Moss, leaves the U.S. to join" (from Publisher's Weekly review).
HADDAM, Jane
- And One to Die On: A Birthday Mystery (1996): Armenian-American
detective Gregor Demarkian solving a murder mystery on a remote Maine
island where a former silent movie actress and her sister weave sinister plots.
HALL, Linda
Coast of Maine Christian mystery series
- Margaret's Peace (1998): When Margaret Collinwood inherits her
childhood home in Coffins Reach, Maine, she returns to the seafront house
hoping to rest, paint, and to find the peace she has lost after the death
of her daughter and the subsequent breakup of her marriage. But Margaret's return to her
family home forces her to face difficult childhood memories surrounding the fatal accident that
took the life of her sister twenty-five years earlier. 300 pp.
- Island of Refuge (1999): As the police begin an extensive investigation of their friend's death,
Naomi and Zoe are distraught. Two states over, Margot begins her own investigation because Jo lived with them for a
few months. What she discovers shatters her to the very core and intertwines the lives of the
island dwellers as they seek to make peace with themselves, their lives, and God.
- Katheryn's Secret (2000): Mystery writer Sharon Colebrook finds herself the
unexpected recipient of her deceased Aunt Katie's papers, and hopes to learn about a
murder Katie had hinted at years before. But as Sharon and her husband Jeff begin to
investigate, the carefully kept facade of her strict religious family begins to crumble.
Secrets, long buried, begin to surface, and only God's grace can put this family back together again. 305 pp.
- Sadie's Song (2001): Nine-year-old Ally Buckley disappears, in circumstances that
closely resemble another recent and chilling event. Fear spreads throughout the Maine
fishing village of Coffins Reach and the local church that Sadie and her family attend.
Then Sadie discovers a drawing done by Ally among her abusive husband's
possesions, an odd evidence that danger may be closer to home than she'd ever known
possible.
- Steal Away (2003): A famous evangelist hires P.I. Teri Blake-Addison to solve a
mystery connected to his wife's death in a boating accident. Set in Maine and
on Grand Manan Island.
- Chat Room (2003): In Maine, Glynis Pigott hires private detective
Teri Addison to find out what's happened to her missing best friend, lawyer
Kim Shock, who quit her job to join her Internet lover Gil Williamson in Texas. Also
examines Internet-only churches vs. in-person church communities; cults; and
issues of belonging.
Teri Blake-Addison (Christian) mystery series
- Steal Away (2003): Dr. Carl Houseman, celebrated minister and
speaker, is determined to find out what really happened to his wife, declared
dead five years ago after her sailboat washed ashore on a coastal island
of Maine. Private investigator Teri Blake-Addison must piece together the
life of this woman who felt she didn't know or understand the
God that her husband so faithfully served. Did Ellen really die in those
cold Atlantic waters?
HAMLIN, Ardeana
- Pink Chimneys: A Novel of 19th Century Maine (1988): Story of
three women who strive to find their place amidst the tumultuous decades of mid-19th-century Maine.
- A Dream of Paris (2004): In 1911 Maine, Laura pursues her dream
to study art in Paris, encouraged by an aging painter, a suffragette friend,
and her own father, a farmer who had once dreamed of singing opera.
HAND, Elizabeth
- Generation Loss (2007): A down and out photographer visits a Maine
island to interview a famously reclusive photographer and confronts an old mystery and
the disappearance of a local teenager. Psychological thriller.
HANNAH, Kristin
- Waiting for the Moon (1995): Historical romance. Setting is coast of Maine, 1882.
Selena came alone to the mansion on the isolated Maine coast. There she met Ian Carrick, a physician
turned recluse, haunted by a telepathic gift that has destroyed his desire to heal. Selena comes
to him, the only person he's ever met who is immune to his psychic powers. A mesmerizing innocent,
she turns his life upside down, bringing light into darkness.
HARDWICK, Elizabeth
- Sleepless Nights (1979): Partially set in Maine.
Kentucky race tracks, fifty-second street jazz clubs in
the forties, Billie Holiday in Harlem, Boston's Beacon Hill,
summers in Maine, winters in Manhattan; such is the unusual landscape
of the inner life of an American woman.
HARDY, Alice Louise
- Escape from a Canvas World (2000): Mystery and romance in the waters off the Maine coast. Author is
part-time Georgetown resident. 340 pp.
HARNUM, Robert
- Exile in the Kingdom (2001): Philip Carmichael is popular at his Maine high school.
A conscientious student and star of the basketball team, he
lives in an affluent household and enjoys the latest in electronic marvels. He is a
model young American. Yet, he lives with a mother he never sees,
in a house owned by a man that she now despises. He spends a
good deal of his time alone, and in silence, studying hard, and then winding
down with a good game of Doom or Mega-Death. He is detached, self-
absorbed, disaffected. Philip will soon commit an act of
violence, and his trial will polarize the small New England community in which he lives.
HARRISON, Stuart
- Still Water (2000): A compelling blend of suspense, adventure and romance
in a small fishing community off the coast of Maine.
HARTMAN, Jane E.
- Hatchet Harbor: A Maine Coast Adventure (1999):
An old-fashioned love story, with vivid descriptions
of nature, wild life and the ecology -- with a plea for saving the
environment. Mistrust is brewing in this tiny Maine fishing village,
where love of nature collides with human greed and the locals and summer
people take sides in a brewing environmental conflict.
HARTSOCK, J. Dak
- Siege of Eden (2001): Horror, set in Maine. 467 pp.
HASTINGS, Corrilla
- Dead Lady at Green Meadows (1998): Botanical mystery set in Maine.
HATCH, M.R.P.
- The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstocks (1895): Detective story
set in Maine. 307 pp.
HAUTALA, Rick / [Hautala Author Information]
- The Mountain King (1996): Horror. Mark Newman has heard tales of the demon that
resides on the rocky slopes of Mount Agiochook, in what is now Maine,
but he doesn't believe them. The day his friend Phil disappears in
a sudden, blinding snowstorm, Mark believes when he sees something he
knows can't be real -- something that will kill again and again.
Novel includes three bonus short stories.
HEALY, Jeremiah
- Foursome (1993): A John Cuddy Mystery, set in Maine. Two couples move from high-living
Boston, to a getaway camp in Maine, where 3 are brutally murdered
and the 4th is framed as the killer.
HERSEY, P.R.
- The Takedown (2003): Murder mystery that follows a former Navy Seal now working
for a major insurance company who notices clients dying. He and friend begin an
investigation that leads them on a chase to the coast of Maine. Written by Maine native.
HETLEY, James A.
- The Summer Country (2002): First novel. Dark fantasy.
Growing up poor in Naskeag Falls, Maine, Maureen leads an ordinary life until
she discovers her blood goes back to the land of Mordred and Merlin.
Author lives in Bangor. Starred
review in the ALA's Booklist.
HILL, Sandra
- The Last Viking (1998): Humorous time-travel romance.
Geirolf Ericsson is a farmer and master shipbuilder in what is Norway in the
year 977 A.D. Journeying on a quest to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to
return a sacred relic, he finds himself sucked into Maine in the
year 1997. When medieval historian Meredith Foster finds him -- in a
leather tunic -- roasting a rabbit in her fireplace she thinks it's
some kind of elaborate joke; but she soon realizes that he knows
much about the tenth century and nothing about the 20th. As Rolf helps
Meredith fulfill her grandfather's dream of re-creating a Viking
ship, he awakens her to dreams of her own.
- Here Comes Santa Claus (2001; with Katie Holmes and Trish Jensen):
Humorous romance. A rollicking romance follows three notorious bachelors -- a Blue Angels pilot, a bounty hunter, and
an ex-NFL football player -- of Snowdon, Maine, as they attempt to
get to their friend's Christmas Eve wedding on time and have many romantic
and hilarious adventures along the way. 394 pp.
HIRSCHHORN, Richard
- Target Mayflower (1977): Novel about Hitler's last desperate
gamble, to send a submarine pack to Maine, where they will
liberate a POW camp filled with Afrika Korps troops, invade
the U.S., and threaten Boston with V-2 rockets.
HODGKINS, Fran
- The Cat of Strawberry Hill (2005): (RL: K-3) The owners of a Rockport Inn find a
blue-eyed kitten at a highway rest area. A true story. Illustrator Lesia Sochor lives in Brooks.
HOLMES, Edward M. / [Holmes Author Information]
- Driftwood: Maine Stories (1972)
- A Part of the Main; Short Stories of the Maine Coast (1973): 177 pp.
- Mostly Maine: Short Stories and Other Writings (1977)
- Two If By Sea: A Novel (1994)
HOLT, Harrison Jewell
- The Calendared Isles: A Romance of Casco Bay (1910):
296 pp.
- Midnight At Mears House (1912): 337 pp. Maine?
HONIG, Lucy
- Picking Up (1986): A turning point in the life
of a downeast potato fields worker, April, in her 30s and the
mother of three sons. Won Dog Ear's 1986 Maine Novel Award.
- Open Season (2002): A collection of short stories with
the title story about a young couple moving from an urban area to
build a home and life in rural Maine.
HOOD, Ann
- Somewhere Off The Coast Of Maine (1987): Looking back
into their 1960s pasts, Suzanne, Claudia and Elizabeth attempt to
reconcile their youthful lives with what they have become in the mid-1980s.
Partially set in Maine. Rhode Island author.
HOOD, Margaret Page
- The Silent Women (1955): First Gil Donan mystery, set in Spruce Island, Maine.
- The Scarlet Thread (1956): Second Gil Donan mystery.
- In the Dark Night (1957; also as The Murders on Fox Island)
: The third Gil Donan mystery. Set in Maine. Also known as The Murders
on Fox Island
- Drown the Wind (1961): Another in the Gil Donan mystery series.
Andy Bruce was the most hated resident of craggy, windswept Fox Island off
the coast of Maine. A tough, vigorous bantan of Yankee shrewdness, he had
stepped on the toes of most of his neighbors as he clawed his way to control of the
island's property and wealth. When Andy's body was found one frosty dawn -- his
skull smashed in by a marlin spike -- Sheriff Gil Donan faced
his most baffling case and an almost limitless array of prime suspects.
- The Sin Mark (1963): Mystery set on the Maine coast.
HOPKINS, Nevil
- The Racoon Lake Mystery (1917): Mystery set in north woods of Maine.
HORNBERGER, H. Richard (AKA Richard Hooker) / [Hornberger Author Information]
- M.A.S.H. Goes to Maine (1971): The four
irrepressible surgeons (Hawkeye, Trapper, Duke, and Spearchucker) who
brought brilliant medicine and lunacy to the troops in Korea deliver
both specialities to the natives of Spruce Harbor, Maine.
- M*A*S*H Mania (1977): Alive and well in Spruce Harbor, Maine, the hometown of Hawkeye Pierce. He and his
wacky pals of the M*A*S*H 4077th may be growing older, but they sure haven't grown up!
Who else would connive to send a forty-year old lobsterman to medical school - on a
football scholarship?
HOUGAN, Carolyn
- The Romeo Flag (1989): Hitchcockian thriller partially set in Maine.
This sophisticated thriller hurtles from the last days of the royal Romanovs to WWII
Shanghai to present day San Francisco and Maine. Divorced teacher Nicola Ward, with a
baffling diary, discovers her family once had been involved in
an infamous Soviet spy ring. Virginia author.
HOWE, Bert
- Echo Horizon (2001): Historical fantasy.
Modern, independent Marna teaches history at a fictitious Maine
college, where she and a friend are collaborating on a doctoral
thesis. Marna experiences paranormal events that take her back
to the time of the American Revolution, which she sees through the
eyes of another girl, Sarah.
HUNT, Samantha
- The Seas: A Novel (2005): Retelling of "The Little Mermaid" A nameless 19-year-old
narrator is in love with a 33-year-old fisherman, Jude, a former soldier in Iraq who has returned
to their small coastal town in Maine unable, or unwilling, to speak about his experiences in the military.
The narrator's father, before he vanished into the ocean 11 years earlier, told her that she
is a mermaid, a sentiment that obsesses the girl. Is she? And if so, will
she kill her soldier with a kiss?