FAST-PACED GARDENING MYSTERY features a spunky sleuth and an only-in-New-York supporting cast. Good fun!

SWEEPING HISTORICAL ROMANCE of an American heiress and an English duke has old-fashioned Whartonesque charm.

JOAN DIDION’S LATEST memoir is a raw and deeply affecting cry of grief at her daughter’s untimely death.

CRANKY COTSWOLDS SLEUTH Agatha Raisin’s 22nd mystery (!) is engrossing, fresh, and deftly plotted. Hurray!

FASCINATING REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE follows conservation biologists fighting invasive species on remote islands.

LONDON’S HIGH SOCIETY, titled Russian expatriates, and complex murders add up to a snazzy 1922-set procedural!

INTENSE, SENSITIVE, EVOCATIVE story of the impact of a hate crime in a small town; YA that resonates for adults.

RUTH RENDELL’S WEXFORD, now retired, shines in his first case as a London consultant. Complex and well-wrought.

IMPECCABLY REPORTED HISTORY of Scientology gives airtime to both adherents and opponents of the faith.

STEAMPUNK, ALIEN LIZARDS, and a queenly Dahomeyan secret agent assassin add up to complex alt-Victorian fun.