Books written by Chris Bohjalian

The Buffalo Soldier

With a pair of living antiques in the house, they didn't need a third one in the meadow that was about to become a paddock. I spoke to Chip Pearson. He's actually finishing up a project at the Goodyears right now and can ...
Midwives

As Sibyl faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.
Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel

The cook wasn't precisely trying to start a fight, she decided, but she was endeavoring to poke at those spots that were the most tender. The Emmerichs already had one son in the army and a second now conscripted into the home guard.
Secrets of Eden (Enhanced Edition): A Novel

—SAMUEL JOHNSON Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. —GENESIS 2:24–25 P A R T I -
The Law of Similars

And then she would return to the chair beside her husband's bed and wait for people to call her back. Richard's physician was enraged, though I think a part of his anger stemmed from the fact that his patient had gone behind his back to ...
The Guest Room: A Novel

This child, Kristin thought to herself, her husband saying something more on the other end of the line but the words merely white noise, was a girl. A girl doesn't fuck other people's husbands at a bachelor party and then take a knife ...
The Night Strangers: A Novel

After he crashes his plane into Lake Champlain, killing most of the passengers, Chip Linton moves into a new home with his wife and twin daughters and soon finds himself being haunted by the dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why ...
Secrets of Eden: A Novel

Haunted by the final words of a newly baptized congregation member who was subsequently murdered by her husband, the Reverend Stephen Drew abandons his pulpit to spend time with an author who writes best-selling books about angels.
Trans-Sister Radio: A Novel

Smoky pumpkin soup and sweet potato vichyssoise, a loaf of walnut beer bread he baked himself. A wild mushroom tart, with hen-of-thewoods sickle puffs he found growing on one of our hikes. Pastas with salmon and pine nuts and fennel.
Hour of the Witch: A Novel

The physician, Dr. Roger Pickering, administered a drink made of eggs and fennel and rum, and gave him nutmeg and cardamom to try and ease the pain. Then he bled and cupped William. And when William began to bleed from inside his nose, ...
The Double Bind

The woman was, in some ways, a second mom to Laurel, and so she didn't presume when Martin told her who was on the phone that Laurel had especially interesting news. Oh, but she did, and she got to it right away.
The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel

The devastating loss of their twin daughters in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair, and their growing relationship with their foster child, a ...
The Sandcastle Girls

Presents the parallel stories of a young woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier while aiding victims of the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century, and a young woman who researches her Armenian heritage and discovers a ...
Les Yeux fermés

Si la vie d'Annalee semble soudain plus complexe et mystérieuse qu'au premier abord, il apparaît bientôt que les autres membres de la famille ont eux aussi des secrets et beaucoup de choses à se reprocher... À la façon des Apparences ...
The Flight Attendant

Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder ...
The Light in the Ruins

Hoping to safeguard themselves during World War II within their villa in Florence, the Rosati family become prisoners in their home instead when the Nazis take over the estate, a situation that leads to a murder investigation years later.
The Sleepwalker: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss and buried desire—the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.
The Light in the Ruins

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills of Tuscany, the Rosatis ...
The Red Lotus: A Novel

Set amid the adrenaline-fueled world of the emergency room, The Red Lotus is a fascinating story of those who dedicate their lives to saving people, and those who instead peddle death to the highest bidder."--
Midwives: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This modern classic from the author of The Flight Attendant is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was ...