• 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

03/27

In conversation with Georgia Hunter for “One Good Thing”

Madison, CT

Join Beatriz in conversation with Georgia Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, on her new novel One Good Thing. Click here for tickets.


03/31

In conversation with Emilia Hart for “The Sirens”

New York, NY

Join Beatriz in conversation with Emilia Hart to celebrate the launch of Emilia’s new novel, The Sirens. Click here for tickets.


05/30

In conversation with Martha Hall Kelly for “The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club”

Madison, CT

Join me in Madison, Connecticut for a lively discussion with bestselling author Martha Hall Kelly to celebrate her latest novel, “The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club.” 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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