Jane's Genealogy Jigsaw
Recommended Reading: Fiction
Contents
The Immigrant Experience
- Vilhelm Moberg
- The Emigrants, 1951
- Unto a Good Land, 1954
- The Settlers, 1961
- The Last Letter Home, 1961
Family Sagas
- Alex Haley
- Roots: The Saga of An American Family, 1976
"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage. To know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is the most disquieting loneliness."
--Alex Haley, Roots
- Elizabeth Shown Mills
- Isle of Canes, 2004
"Family is our beginning and our end. It is who we are and why we are. Amid its roots we can find an understanding of the problems our world has inherited, and amid the intertwining of its branches we can see hope for a better world in the generations to come."
--Elizabeth Shown Mills, Isle of Canes - Solveig Torvik
- Nikolai's Fortune, 2005
"Ours was a family of secrets, beset by cruel cycles of separation. These secrets, and the shame that roiled silently in their wake, reached across three countries and an ocean to hold four generations in thrall."
--Solveig Torvik, Nikolai's Fortune
Mysteries
- Catherine Aird
- Henrietta Who?, 1968
- A Going Concern, 1993
- Albert A. Bell, Jr
- The Blood of Caesar, 2008
- Kate Borden
- Death of A Tart, 2004
- Rita Mae Brown
- Murder at Monticello, 1994
- Jill Churchill
- From Here to Paternity, 1995
- Anne George
- Murder Runs in the Family, 1997
- Sue Henry
- The Serpent's Trail, 2004
- Hazel Holt
- Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family, 2005
- Kathleen Kunz
- Murder Once Removed, 1993
- J.J. Lamb & Bette Golden Lamb
- Heir Today . . . , 2005
- Graham Landrum
- The Famous DAR Murder Mystery, 1992
- The Historical Society Murder Mystery, 1996
- Jane Langton
- The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg, 2003
- Elizabeth Lowell
- Always Time to Die, 2005
- Rett MacPherson: Torie O'Shea series
- Family Skeletons, 1997
- A Veiled Antiquity, 1998
- A Comedy of Heirs, 1999
- A Misty Mourning, 2000
- Killing Cousins, 2002
- Blood Relations, 2003
- In Sheep's Clothing, 2004
- Thicker Than Water, 2005
- Dead Man Running, 2006
- Died in the Wool, 2007
- Lee Martin
- Genealogy of Murder, 1996
- Fiona Mountain
- Pale as the Dead, 2002
- Bloodline, 2004
- Elena Santangelo: Pat Montella series
- By Blood Possessed, 1999
- Hang My Head and Cry, 2001
- Dorothy Sayers
- Unnatural Death (The Dawson Pedigree), 1927
- Patricia Sprinkle
- Death on the Family Tree, 2006
- Gene Stratton
- Killing Cousins: A Mort Sinclair Mystery, 1989
