A Forty Year Kiss : A Novel
by Nickolas Butler

Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing -- he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.
Still True
by Maggie Ginsberg

One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son's existence to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses, they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib's long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives.
Shoulder Season
by Christina Clancy

After the death of her parents, 19-year-old Sherri Taylor, becomes a Playboy bunny, getting her education in the joys of sisterhood, the thrill of financial independence, the magic of first love, and the heady effects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll at the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, WI.
A Reliable Wife : A Novel
by Robert Goolrick

In 1909 Wisconsin, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on is that Truitt ― a passionate man with his own dark secrets ―has plans of his own for his new wife.
Death Stalks Door County : A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery
by Patricia Skalka

Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst. In a desperate search for clues, Cubiak uncovers a tangled web of greed, betrayal, bitter rivalries, and lost love beneath the peninsula’s travel-brochure veneer. Befriended by several locals, but unsure whom to trust or to suspect of murder, the one-time cop tracks a clever killer.  
The Art of Fielding : A Novel
by Chad Harbach

A baseball star at a small Wisconsin college on the shores of Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter. 
A Prayer for the Dying
by Stewart O'Nan

In the wake of a mysterious and deadly epidemic in a small post-Civil War Wisconsin community, Jacob Hansen struggles with family loyalties and his faith in his determined efforts to save the town, a quest that is further challenged by erupting violence.
The Dive From Clausen's Pier
by Ann Packer

At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart. But when her fiancé Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
The Bird Sisters : A Novel
by Rebecca Rasmussen

Caring for both troubled people and sick birds who visit their Wisconsin home, sisters Milly and Twiss look back on a summer during which their father suffered a debilitating accident, their mother resigned herself to a hardscrabble existence, and a cousin changed the course of their lives.
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
by Amy E. Reichert

On the day Chef Lou Johnson catches her fiancé in a compromising position with an intern, British food critic Al pays a visit to her Milwaukee restaurant and writes a scathing review, which runs on the day the two meet at a local pub.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle : A Novel
by David Wroblewski

Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a breed of dog whose remarkable gift for companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. Edgar seems poised to carry on his family's traditions, but when catastrophe strikes, he finds his home engulfed in turmoil. Forced to flee into the wilderness with his dogs, Edgar fights for his survival until the day he is forced to choose between leaving forever or returning home to confront the mysteries he has left unsolved. 
Whistling in the Dark
by Lesley Kagen

Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Now, the girls' mother is hospitalized, their stepfather has abandoned them for a six pack, and their big sister, Nell, is too busy making out with her boyfriend to notice that Sally and Troo are on the Loose. And so is a murderer and molester in their Milwaukee neighborhood.
 
Wolf Hollow
by Victoria Houston

It's mid-May in the tiny Northwoods Wisconsin town of Loon Lake, and the fish are biting. There are rumors that a precious vein of nickel and copper is buried on the property of wealthy Grace McDonough, and the drilling is about to begin. When family members start showing up dead, police chief Lew Ferris discovers that the family was filing a lawsuit to prevent the drilling, setting in motion a deadly chain of events.  
 
Orchard
by Larry Watson

In Door County, Wisconsin, Sonja Skordahl finds herself torn between two very different men--Henry House, her orchardist husband and father of her two children, and Ned Weaver, an internationally famous artist who uses her as a model. When both Ned and Henry insist on possessing her, their jealousies threaten to erupt into violence, and Sonja must find a way to placate both men without sacrificing her hard-won sense of self.
The Women : A Novel
by T.C. Boyle

This tale, inspired by the tumultuous love life of Frank Lloyd Wright, is presented from the perspectives of four very different women who loved him. It examines the cruel reality of his relationships and offers insight into the architect's enduring struggles against conventional boundaries. 
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman

Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him. When Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world.
Old World Murder : A Chloe Ellefson Mystery
by Kathleen Ernst

Chloe Ellefson is starting fresh as curator of Old World Wisconsin, a museum showcasing 1800s settlement life. But misfortune befalls Chloe on her first day when a woman begs her to find a priceless 18th-century Norwegian ale bowl donated years ago. Minutes later, the woman dies in a mysterious car crash. Chloe discovers that someone is trying to erase all traces of the bowl's existence. Can Chloe solve a decades-old puzzle, catch a covetous killer, and stay alive in this deadly heirloom hunt?