Another vote for Lehane

Look up Jane Langton. She’s from Concord, MA and her works are set there.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Dennis Lehane books are set in Boston and have mystery elements (Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, etc.)

+1

My book group just read Lehane's Small Mercies which was really good and we had a very interesting discussion. We never read crime thrillers/mysteries and it was a nice departure.

Quirky mystery that includes scavenger hunt around Boston w/paranormal elements

Tuesday Mooney tasks to Ghosts

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42478640

Murder at the Gardner

Philip Craig mysteries are set in Martha’s Vineyard https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/philip-r-craig/marthas-vineyard-mysteries/

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Dennis Lehane books are set in Boston and have mystery elements (Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, etc.)

+1

Anonymous wrote:Spenser by Robert Parker.

+1 and the Jesse Stone series by Parker

Lots of Dennis Lehane books are set in Boston and have mystery elements (Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, etc.)

Spenser by Robert Parker.

Thank you for these! I’m going to check these suggestions out. In case anyone else is interested, in researching I came across another one which looks pretty good:charlesgate confidential (three eventually overalapping storylines in the 40s, 80, and 2010s, and fictionalized account of the gardiner heist.

The Family Vault (and the rest of the series) by Charlotte MacLeod — very Boston centric

Do you like historical mysteries? I enjoyed the series with Abigail Adams as the main character. The Ninth Daighter by Barbara Hamilton is the first book.

If you like cozy mysteries, this is a good series set in MA: https://www.sheilaconnolly.com/orchard-mysteries.php

Looking for a good mystery or thriller set in Boston (or at least Massachusetts ) and would appreciate any recs. Prefer not really graphic o(or sad ending.) thank you!