AN EDINBURGH COP uncovers old secrets on a remote Scottish island, his childhood home. Taut, atmospheric!

SPOOKY TALE COMBINES Florida-style Southern Gothic and the supernatural for chilling suspense. Kit Reed rules!

WHIMSICAL WOMEN’S FICTION features vivid local (Anchorage, Alaska!) color, a memorable single-mom heroine.

COZY WWII-ERA MYSTERY set in rural Georgia features a spunky old-maid schoolteacher as sleuth. Nicely done.

IN A FLORIDA TOWN haunted by a savage 1930s crime, family histories are revealed and redemptions sought.

MEMORABLY RESOURCEFUL HEROINE needs every bit of her fierceness to make her way in Victorian England. Engaging!

FIVE STORIES, CONNECTED by big themes like luck, love, and identity, each deftly handled by Sebastian Faulks.

FUTURISTIC THRILLER SET in a privatized San Francisco police state.  Some interesting ideas, poorly handled.

A SHARP, QUICK-WITTED THIEF tells her story, from impoverished childhood through the London Blitz to motherhood.

MARVELOUS MEDIEVAL BATTLE yarn stars a knight who’s sly, brave, and just as moral a rogue as Cornwell’s Sharpe.