Get cozy this Thanksgiving with these engaging reads for adults. From heartwarming tales and family dramas to historical insights and festive mysteries, these books are perfect companions for the holiday season.
A Deadly Feast by Lucy Burdette
Thanksgiving is nearly here, and Key West food critic Hayley Snow has just one more assignment to put to bed for Key Zest magazine before she gets to celebrate with her family and her police officer fiancé, Nathan Bransford. Then, just days later, wedding bells will ring—if death doesn’t toll first. The sweet potatoes and stuffing will have to wait when Hayley picks up a distraught phone call from her friend, Analise Smith. On the last stop of a seafood tasting tour run by Analise, one of the customers collapsed—dead. With the police on the verge of shutting down the tour—and ruining Analise’s business—Hayley can hardly refuse her friend’s entreaties to investigate.
Turkey Trot Murder by Leslie Meier
An uneventful Thanksgiving season is shattered by the overdose-related death of a wealthy investor’s beautiful daughter, a tragedy that Lucy Stone links to the possible schemes of the victim’s pregnant stepmother.
The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Three lost souls from Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Central Park and Greenwich Village find their bond tested during the course of a fateful Thanksgiving week when emotions run high in the wake of complicated family dynamics.
This Land is Their Land by David J. Silverman
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
The Angels’ Share by Ellen Crosby
Attending a Thanksgiving weekend party at a newspaper family’s castle estate, Lucie Montgomery learns of her nonagenarian host’s aspirations about a rare Prohibition-era Madeira before he is found dead in his wine cellar amid rumors of his Freemason connections.
Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
A riveting second novel that unfolds over the course of Thanksgiving Day as two families are connected by a horrific crime.
We Gather Together by Denise Kiernan
A narrative account of the life and achievements of 19th-century magazine publisher Sarah Hale explores her cultural influence, advocacy of women’s education and 36-year campaign to establish a national day of thanks.
City on Edge by Stefanie Pintoff
The night before the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a crowd gathers on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to watch the giant balloons fill with helium and rise toward the sky. Then the festive ritual takes a terrifying turn—a gunshot rings out, police commissioner Logan Donovan falls, and panic erupts. When the chaos clears, another crime is revealed: Donovan’s daughter, Allie, has been kidnapped. Soon the abductor will make his shocking demands.
