A REPORTER TURNS SLEUTH to investigate suspicious deaths and shady land deals in this entertaining mystery.

SWEEPING EPIC ADVENTURE follows a Spanish woman from poverty to success as a couturiere to wartime espionage.

INFORMATIVE, IF SLIGHTLY TERRIFYING! Meteorologist’s overview of/survival guide for extreme weather conditions.

PHOTOGRAPHER DIANE ARBUS seen through a psychologist’s eyes. Thought-provoking, but not as much so as her work. SOLID B

AN EMERGENCY IN SLOW MOTION
Bloomsbury USA
2011

REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE tale of the scientists and explorers who worked to create underwater human habitats. Fun! SOLID B

SEALAB: AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN QUEST TO LIVE AND WORK ON THE OCEAN FLOOR
Simon & Schuster
2012

WILD, GRITTY NOIR adventure has plenty of graphic sex and violence, a unique tough-broad protagonist’s voice. B PLUS

CHOKE HOLD (HARD CASE CRIME)
Hard Case Crime
2011

WILD, GRITTY NOIR adventure has plenty of graphic sex and violence, a unique tough-broad protagonist’s voice.

FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY, RICH with newly released letters, of Victorian art figure Effie Gray Ruskin Millais.

CHILLING, COMPELLING NOVEL shows a gay white South African man’s struggles with family, apartheid society, army.

THOUGHTFUL AND EYE-OPENING memoir tells the story of a man’s difficult decision to leave his Amish community.