• There are few more skilled practitioners of the craft of summer fiction than Beatriz Williams.

    — The New York Times

  • I think Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It's lush with period detail but feels immediate.

    — Elin Hilderbrand

  • [Williams'] novels are packed with complex, daring, and intriguingly human women.

    — NPR.com

  • Williams’ particular gift as a writer is peeling back the pages of history to breathe life into the interior lives of women — how they lived, loved, and lost within the expectations and limitations of their time.

    — Entertainment Weekly

now in bookstores

Return to Winthrop Island in this shimmering new novel of lost love and family secrets—a New England summer romance like no other.

A Book of the Month Club main selection

TODAY show “Best Beach Read”

Finalist, Goodreads Choice Awards

A LibraryReads Hall of Fame selection

 

 

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About Beatriz

Beatriz Williams is a New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction.

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in bookstores July 29

A devastating secret haunts the women of an old New England family in this rich new novel set on Winthrop Island, now available for preorder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discover "Under the Stars"

now in bookstores

Beatriz joins forces with Karen White and Lauren Willig for the next eagerly-awaited “Team W” novel…and this time, it’s murder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About "The Author's Guide to Murder"

Upcoming Events

07/29

“Under the Stars” Book Launch in Madison, CT

Madison, CT

Join me as we launch UNDER THE STARS into the world at my home bookstore, RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT. This event will sell out, so please be sure to reserve your spot.


07/30

Lit. at the Lounge in Portsmouth, NH

Portsmouth, NH

Join me for a book talk and signing for “Under the Stars” at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH, part of the Lit. at the Lounge series. Click here for more info and to purchase  your ticket.


08/01

Book talk in Plainville, MA

Plainville, MA

Join me at the fabulous An Unlikely Story Bookstore & Café for a lively discussion of UNDER THE STARS.  Ticket includes either a hardcover copy or a coupon for any of my books. Click here for tickets.


Recent Releases

2023

The Beach at Summerly

The second Winthrop Island novel transports readers back to a midcentury New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue.

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2021

Our Woman in Moscow

A gripping and profoundly human drama of Cold War espionage and family devotion, inspired by the shocking history of the Cambridge spy ring.

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2018

The Summer Wives

The first Winthrop Island novel is a ravishing postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of a rarefied island off the New England coast.

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Book Clubs

Beatriz speaks frequently with book clubs around the world. If you’d like to schedule a Skype or telephone session with Beatriz for your meeting, please fill out the contact form on the Book Clubs page.

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October 26, 2021

Now in bookstores, THE WICKED WIDOW

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The dazzling Gin Kelly returns in the third novel of the acclaimed Wicked City Prohibition...

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