New York (State) -- Fiction

Xavier Kilgarven has three baffling cases in his upper New York state 19th-century home, all of which are failures.

Two heroines challenge the constraints against women in 1880s New York State. One is Regina, whose epilepsy makes her an outcast in society, the other is Olive, a miner's wife hired to look after her. The pair share adventures that take them into alternative societies of Adirondack women: gypsy camps, a madhouse, and a commune of renegade Shaker women. A first novel.

On Lake George's historic Bass Island, Matt O'Malley awakens in his tent to the sounds of moaning. Investigating, he finds a nearly drowned woman has floated ashore. His entanglement with the beautiful and manipulative Heather Grant over the ensuing fourteen Desperate Hours will forever change his life and alter the future of the nation; as he uncovers, and attempts to prevent, a major terrorist attack on a leading presidential candidate. -- cover.

Life in a seemingly placid upstate New York town turns to turmoil when the prodical son of its leading family returns home.

Two culturally different young people meet in Warsaw, Poland, fall in love, marry, and move to America, where they move to the Adirondack Mountains in New York State and try to earn a living from running a dry-goods store, mining, and helping to build a railroad.

Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, he creates a small town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?

When Julian Palmer leaves the dirty sludge of Manhattan for a police internship in northern New York State, she finds that the small town's shimmering blankets of snow hide shocking secrets--and a killer with the coldest heart.

A brief history -- A healing fire -- Love our lake -- A civic duty -- Treasure hunters -- One crime too many -- Death from the forest -- Neither rain nor snow -- A very special group -- Nobody steals a gravestone -- Not in my town -- Growing up right -- A nice clean concert -- Death day -- The death day program.; "Meet Hank Sessions, retired deputy, as he befriends a widowed loon, coaches a pair of kiddie cops, turns back a stream of European narcotics, and uproots big city crime." -- back cover.