SNARKY, FAST-PACED CAPER with a casino setting and a memorable cast of grifters, drifters, and gamblers.

THOUGHTFUL, ELOQUENT, MORALLY complex look at a murder trial; sobering, and exactly opposite to sensationalism.

MASTER OF SPEC-FIC SILLINESS Tom Holt brings us another delightfully funny romp of magic and muddled dimensions.

INTRIGUE AT A MUMBAI research institute highlights the impact of class, caste, and gender in deftly comic novel.

THE BEST MAISIE DOBBS mystery yet finds the English sleuth facing the fallout of 1932’s international tensions.

SEARINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of the writer’s years of abuse by a charismatic pedophile and neglect by her parents.

MOTHER/DAUGHTER CONFLICTS plus the perils of minor celebrity status add up to thoughtful, edgy women’s fiction.

RODDY DOYLE’S NEW story collection crafts wistful poetry out of the everyday trials and triumphs of Irish men.

A LIBERIAN BROADCASTER sketches a portrait of her conflict-torn country in her own story, those of listeners.

FASCINATING TOPIC–the history of UFO disinformation campaigns–suffers from distractingly unfocused approach.