Gary Krist Books in Order

These stories follow middle-class characters in New Jersey, Brooklyn, and upstate New York. Children, lovers, workers, and older people confront loneliness, separation, and the uncertainty of ordinary relationships, with humor threaded through their uneasy connections.

Former police officer Kate Theodorus investigates when her husband disappears during a routine shopping trip. Evidence of drug trafficking and a murdered scientist pulls her back into criminal investigation while challenging everything she believed about her marriage.

Teenage friends Jason Rourke and Dennis Monroe go looking for marijuana in Washington and leave a violent encounter believing they escaped. Learning the other man is dead makes them homicide suspects and draws them into a political conspiracy.

Will Merrick pursues wealth in a story unfolding simultaneously in seventeenth-century London and modern New York. Speculative booms, new technologies, romance, and questionable financial alliances connect his ambitions across two seemingly different worlds.

In February 1910, a blizzard strands two trains in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Gary Krist follows the passengers and railway workers through days of isolation and rescue efforts before an avalanche turns their predicament into a disaster.

Twelve days in 1919 bring Chicago a deadly blimp crash, a child's murder, racial violence, and a transit strike. Gary Krist traces how these overlapping crises tested the city's leaders and disrupted its ambitions for modernization.

Gary Krist examines three decades of conflict between New Orleans reformers and its entrenched vice economy. Storyville operator Tom Anderson anchors an account connecting jazz musicians, politicians, criminals, and campaigners competing to shape the city's future.

Gary Krist follows Los Angeles between 1900 and 1930 through engineer William Mulholland, filmmaker D. W. Griffith, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Their ambitions helped transform the city while exposing them to scandal and catastrophic failure.

Laura D. Fair shoots her married lover aboard a San Francisco ferry in 1870. Gary Krist examines the sensational trial and what it revealed about gender, family, and a frontier city's efforts to redefine itself.