GRIPPING STORY OF a mother and daughter on the run, united by love and fear.  Great prose and translation.

ELOQUENT, SLY, INSIGHTFUL travel writing from England’s great Sara Wheeler in a decades-spanning collection.

A BROKEDOWN US BOXER, drawn into investigating the hundreds of women murdered in Ciudad Juárez.  Grim, true.

SPOOKY HISTORICAL NOVEL mixes horror, legend, and Enlightenment science in a gory, kinky, unsettling tale.

WITH A POET’S GRACE of language and her keenly observant eye, this New York memoir stands out from the crowd.

SHARP, FUNNY CROATIAN novel contrasts everyday chaos in Zagreb with a reporter’s unhinged notes from Iraq.

QUIRKY SF SATIRE of a future world where everyone is always connected, and life, love, death are monetized.

CON ARTISTS, FAUX-PSYCHICS, ex-lovers still enmeshed: startling, poetic novel captures two vivid characters.

THE POST-MORTEM ADVENTURES OF famous people’s remains.  Witty, macabre, well-researched, entertaining!

TAUT, SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER features a retired FBI agent racing to find the killer targeting her.  Good stuff!