DELICATELY CRAFTED, GRIM little tales about a rural German town haunted by ghosts, by cruelty, and by the past.

GORGEOUS LITTLE ART book is a collage of impressions–in photos and text–of the owner of a lost address book.

BACK TO THE TUDORS with Carolly Erickson for a lively novel about Catherine Howard, the 5th Mrs. Henry VIII.

A SURPRISING DEATH in a North Wales town is investigated by a manicurist sleuth. Interesting cozy, setting.

LOVELY, SPARE PROSE tells the story of a gay Moroccan man wrestling with the ideas of Arab identity, culture.

THE DEEP BOND BETWEEN humans and horses, and the beauty of Wyoming’s open spaces, both captured eloquently.

GRANDLY SPRAWLING HISTORICAL novel follows the abdication of Edward VIII from both “upstairs” and “downstairs”.

MURDER AND COURT INTRIGUE play out against a vivid backdrop of feudal Japan; well-crafted historical whodunit.

A YOUNG US WRITER’S memoir of three pilgrimages (including the famed Camino de Santiago) has wit, lacks oomph.

THE HARDSCRABBLE WORLD of Pakistan’s “untouchable” Christians is the setting for this vividly imagined novel.