SUBTLY TERRIFYING TALE peels back the surface of everyday life to reveal malevolent otherworldly beings. B PLUS

THE CRONING
Night Shade Books
2012

COMPELLING ICELANDIC MYSTERY tracks a lawyer/sleuth as she uncovers secrets long buried by a volcanic eruption. B PLUS

ASHES TO DUST (THÓRA GUDMUNDSDÓTTIR SERIES #3)
St. Martin’s Press
2012

THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights. SOLID B

THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin’s Press
2013

THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights.

SUBTLE, MIND-BENDING THRILLER compellingly mixes time travel, espionage, and digital revolutionaries. Wild!

THE FUNNIEST AGORAPHOBIA MEMOIR ever written?  Almost certainly, but there’s insight aplenty as well.

A VACATIONING WIDOW gets caught in the undertow of a Mexican drug war in this savvy noir-esque thriller.

QUIETLY COMPELLING, EVOCATIVE novel about an accident investigator haunted by his brother’s early death.

INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.

SEARINGLY PERSONAL, YET incisively analytical memoir of ovarian cancer from women’s studies star Susan Gubar.