FAST-PACED LAS VEGAS thriller has a colorful cast of characters, adds a touch of the supernatural. SOLID B

LUCKY SEVENS
Original Cyn Advertising
2014

A DETECTIVE’S LOYALTIES ARE DIVIDED when her sergeant is a suspect in a multiple murder case. Tense mystery. SOLID B

THE STRANGER YOU KNOW
St. Martin’s Press
2014

A “SERIAL WEDDING GUEST” meditates on the weddings she’s attended, and on love in general. Rueful and funny! SOLID B

SAVE THE DATE
Riverhead Hardcover
2014

A DARK TWIST ON Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde imagines some bleak psychological roots for the tale’s horror. SOLID B

HYDE
Houghton Mifflin
2014

A FRANK, MORDANT MIDLIFE memoir of searching for all kinds of love past age 50. Eloquent even in bitterness. SOLID B

LOVE SICK
Berkley Trade
2014

A FRANK, MORDANT MIDLIFE memoir of searching for all kinds of love past age 50. Eloquent even in bitterness. SOLID B

COMPLEX COLD WAR thriller captures the tangled webs of loyalty and treachery within England’s spy service. SOLID B

THE WHITEHALL MANDARIN
Arcadia Books
2014

AN ENTERTAINING, INFORMATIVE HISTORY of navigational technology, from lodestones to satellites to GPS. SOLID B

A ROMANCE EDITOR’S COMIC saga of a less-than-novel-worthy love life, until she found her happily ever after. SOLID B

A DOCTOR AND GENETICS RESEARCHER’S informal overview of how our environment can affect our gene expression. SOLID B