A WOMAN ON THE RUN seeks refuge in a historic and mysterious house. Supernatural thriller in the grand style. SOLID B

THE VANISHING
Hyperion Books
2014

INTRIGUING AND TROUBLING MEMOIR by a woman who experienced total amnesia after a traumatic brain injury. SOLID B

I FORGOT TO REMEMBER
Simon & Schuster
2014

THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE TRUE STORY of Stax Records and its role in the explosion of soul music in the 1960s US. SOLID B

RESPECT YOURSELF
Bloomsbury USA
2013

FOUR FRIENDS GATHER together in a time of crisis. Some well-drawn characterization, a bit too much melodrama. SOLID B

LIVING SEPARATE LIVES
Thy Word Publishing
2013

OFFBEAT MYSTERY HAS an intriguing setting (an LGBTQ writers’ conference in New Orleans), an appealing sleuth. SOLID B

SLASH AND BURN
Bold Strokes Books
2014

A RICH HISTORY OF hobo culture, from the early 1900s to the tales of those who proudly ride the rails today. SOLID B

MULLIGAN STEW: STORIES AND TRADITIONS OF AMERICAN HOBOS
self-published
2014

QUIRKY, ABSOLUTELY FEARLESS memoir about growing up quiet and bookish in a big backwoods Maine family. SOLID B

PIGS CAN’T SWIM
Da Capo Press
2014

HIGH-ENERGY COZY MYSTERY puts copywriter sleuth Jaine Austen on scene for murder at a shady dating service. SOLID B

KILLING CUPID
Kensington
2013

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND checkered past of tycoon and Egyptologist Theodore Davis. Fascinating biography! SOLID B

THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE MUMMIES : THEODORE DAVIS’S GILDED AGE IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS
St. Martin’s Press
2013

TWO PIONEERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, England’s Henry Fox Talbot and France’s Louis Daguerre, profiled with verve. SOLID B

CAPTURING THE LIGHT
St. Martin’s Press
2013