crime world of the 70s and the Massachusetts high-tech world of the 90s Crisis by Robin Cook, novel, early 21st century; begins with a tale of two doctors, one practicing in NYC and one in Boston, with the former's trial for malpractice taking place in Boston; most of the action occurs in Boston The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; Boston is the home of protagonist Robert Langdon The Dandy Vigilante by Kevin Daley, a hard-boiled mystery about a Boston news reporter, crime, and city hall corruption The Dante Club, a murder mystery featuring Harvard personalities Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as publisher James T. Fields; takes place in Boston and Cambridge, by Matthew Pearl (2003) Dead Heat by Linda Barnes Easter Rising by Michael Patrick MacDonald The Europeans by Henry James Fair Game by Patricia Briggs. Takes place in an urban fantasy version of Boston that features some of the real life historic sites and culture. Fallout by Harry Turtledove, an alternate history novel in the Hot War series, where the Korean War escalates into World War III, the city was destroyed by a Soviet atomic bomb in May 1952. The blast also burned the USS Constitution to the waterline. Find Me by Laura van den Berg Firmin by Sam Savage, a magical-realist account of the destruction of Scollay Square Flashpoint by Linda Barnes Flynn's World by Gregory Mcdonald Future Boston a shared universe novel by the Cambridge Science Fiction Writers Workshop The Given Day, novel by Dennis Lehane, takes place in post-World War I Boston Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; post-nuclear Cambridge and Boston are the setting of this dystopian novel Home Before Dark by Eileen Bassing Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, set in a partly fictionalized Boston Innocence by David Hosp; Boston is the main setting of this thriller/courtroom novel Intuition by Allegra Goodman Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes takes place in Boston in the early 1770s Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer's novel about rivalry; William Kane is from Boston Karma and Other Stories, short stories by Rishi Reddi Last Dance by Lee Grove The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor; O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James Michael Curley Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (2009), partly set in the North End