HILARIOUSLY HAPLESS DETECTIVE Stanley Hastings is suspected of murder, semi-eptly hunts the real killer. Fun!

ABSORBING BIOGRAPHY OF Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance reveals her as fascinating and talented in her own right.

UNUSUAL, HIGHLY CANDID memoir from a woman whose husband of only one month was jailed for shocking crimes.

INSIDE THE WORLD of online media spin doctoring with one of its early gurus.  Cynical but enlightening.

AN ARTIST RETURNS to Galveston, Texas, and searches the island’s history and her family’s secrets. Overwrought.

THE CREATION OF BANGLADESH as seen from a child’s perspective. Deftly handled tale with flashes of sweet humor.

FASCINATING TWIST ON the Frankenstein story—a retelling from the “monster’s” point of view.  Masterful!

INSPIRING TRUE STORY of a young prodigy and her chess coach, both from one of Uganda’s most impoverished slums.

A CHILD’S SUDDEN DEATH fractures a family, reveals its secrets. Upper-middle-class melodrama, a bit formulaic.

OFFBEAT TRAGICOMEDY OF manners about a hapless young man with plenty of money and too many literary ambitions.