Chris Bohjalian Books in Order

When Penny Nobel is found murdered in a Greenwich Village apartment, her former college roommates are forced back into one another's lives. Old loyalties, class tensions, and fresh violence keep deepening the mystery.

Detective J.P. Burrows investigates the hanging of Brian Middleton in a century-old Vermont farmhouse. The case looks like suicide, but the old house and the people around it suggest something darker.

Grieving father Bill Parris agrees to coach the Little League team his dead son should have played on. Then he meets Lucky Diamond, a mute boy whose talent and mystery reopen wounds Bill thought were closed.

In drought-stricken Vermont, dowser Patience Avery searches for water while her brother-in-law fights for a ski resort expansion. Family loyalty and environmental pressure build toward a sharp moral showdown.

On a brutal Vermont winter night, midwife Sibyl Danforth performs an emergency cesarean section on a woman she believes is dead. The aftermath becomes a gripping fight over medicine, law, and conscience.

Widowed Vermont prosecutor Leland Fowler falls for a homeopath who seems to offer healing and a way forward. But when one of her patients is gravely harmed, love, grief, and ethics become dangerously tangled.

Schoolteacher Allison Banks falls in love with Dana Stevens, a professor preparing to transition. Their relationship tests Allison's family, Dana's courage, and the limits of a small Vermont town.

Still shattered by the loss of their twin daughters, Terry and Laura Sheldon welcome ten-year-old Alfred into their home. As the boy slowly begins to trust them, grief, race, and betrayal put the family under strain.

This nonfiction collection gathers Bohjalian's columns and essays about family life, small-town Vermont, and the oddities of everyday living. It is funny, observant, and full of the local details that feed his fiction.

A yearly family gathering in New Hampshire is blown apart by a gun accident no one can undo. Bohjalian turns one terrible moment into a tense story about marriage, parenting, and blame.

After a brutal attack changes her life, Laurel Estabrook becomes obsessed with a homeless man's hidden photographs. Her search for their meaning leads toward mental illness, buried history, and a secret with real bite.

In the last months of World War II, a young German woman, a Scottish POW, and a Jewish man disguised as a German soldier flee west across a collapsing Reich. It is a harrowing story of survival, love, and moral strain.

A small Vermont town reels after what looks like a murder-suicide. As a minister, a damaged memoirist, and a prosecutor circle the case, buried secrets begin to undo the official story.

After a crash kills thirty-nine passengers, pilot Chip Linton moves his family to a haunted New Hampshire house to start over. The bolted basement door and the town around it suggest their nightmare is not finished.

This sweeping novel moves between Aleppo in 1915 and New York in the present as love, exile, and family memory converge. Through one family's story, Bohjalian explores the Armenian Genocide and its long shadow.

In 1943 Tuscany, war enters the Rosati family's villa; in 1955, a scarred investigator tracks a killer targeting its survivors. History, grief, and revenge twist together in an elegant mystery.

After a catastrophic meltdown at a Vermont nuclear plant, teenage Emily Shepard runs from grief, blame, and the wreckage of home. Her fierce bond with a younger homeless boy gives the story its heart.

A bachelor party in suburban New York ends with two dead bodyguards and two young women on the run. The fallout rips through one family's life and opens a brutal window onto sex trafficking.

This short prequel follows teenage Lianna Ahlberg through an eerie Vermont summer of dead horses, snapped power lines, and her mother's increasingly alarming sleepwalking.

When Annalee Ahlberg disappears from her Vermont home, her daughter Lianna starts pulling at threads the family has ignored for years. What begins as a missing-person case becomes a dark, intimate mystery.

Flight attendant Cassie Bowden wakes in a Dubai hotel beside a dead man and no memory of the night before. Her scramble to stay free turns into a tense hunt for the truth.

In this compact play, a nervous young flight attendant faces her first transatlantic trip beside a seasoned coworker. Turbulence in the air soon gives way to a more personal and painful reckoning.

Alexis travels to Vietnam with the man she may be falling for, then watches him vanish during a bike tour. The search that follows becomes a smart, unsettling thriller about lies, medicine, and biological danger.

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield tries to escape a violent marriage, only to find herself trapped by gossip, superstition, and a colony eager to see witchcraft in every shadow.

A movie star's honeymoon safari in 1964 Tanzania turns into a kidnapping nightmare for her glamorous entourage. Bohjalian mixes Hollywood glamour, politics, and survival pressure in a fast-moving historical thriller.

Vegas bartender Dove sizes up a stranger on a winning streak and senses he is not what he claims. Their flirtation turns into a fast, dangerous duel in this lean short thriller.

Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator in a rundown Vegas casino, sees her carefully staged life implode after a murder. Her estranged sister's arrival only deepens the trouble in this sharp, strange thriller.

Set in 1968, this two-act play traps three married couples in a suburban living room after a night of drinking and bad choices. Race, class, marriage, and self-deception all hit the table.

In the Shenandoah Valley in 1864, Libby Steadman finds a badly wounded Union officer and must decide whether to hide him. The choice could cost her everything, but it may also lead to news of her missing husband.

Two estranged brothers inherit the family dairy farm and take one last dramatic jump over the Vermont fields. When the plan goes wrong, a dark struggle over loyalty, money, and revenge comes into focus.

In 1978, teen golf prodigy Mira Winston kills a caddy with a stray shot, and the accident turns into something far uglier. As investigators dig deeper, class privilege, secret affairs, and predatory men come into view.