SPOOKY, ATMOSPHERIC HORROR story links an indefinable terror across continents, through decades. Gory stuff! SOLID B

FOREST GHOST: A NOVEL OF HORROR AND SUICIDE IN AMERICA AND POLAND
Severn House Publishers
2014

A SMALLTOWN NEWSPAPER OWNER solves a series of murders and finds love in this rural Michigan-set cozy. Fun! SOLID B

SNOOP
Cozy Cat Press
2013

THE SEEDY, FARCICAL LIVES of a family of hard-drinking Belgian no-hopers, depicted with tender brutality. SOLID B

THE MISFORTUNATES: A NOVEL
St. Martin’s Press
2013

A NORTHERN IRELAND MYSTERY has an action-packed plot, background on human trafficking, immigration tensions. SOLID B

BORDER ANGELS
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
2013

STYLISH FAMILY SAGA with a touch of the supernatural follows several generations of a wealthy black family. SOLID B

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Kensington Publishing Corporation
2013

FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Robert Gates’s memoir of his Cabinet years is startlingly candid, oddly cranky. SOLID B

DUTY: MEMOIRS OF A SECRETARY AT WAR
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2014

AN EXTRAVAGANT STEAMPUNK ADVENTURE from genre pioneer K. W. Jeter features danger and intrigue in alt-London. SOLID B

FIENDISH SCHEMES
Tor Books
2013

WITTY AND BITTERSWEET NOVEL about true love, celebrity culture, and the price of fame has some real insights. SOLID B

LEADING MAN
Vintage Books
2013

INTRIGUING BIO OF PULP magazine editor Ray Palmer, who influenced science fiction and shaped the UFO craze. SOLID B

THE MAN FROM MARS
Tarcher
2013

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and his fabled exploits, placed in a broad, rich context of WWI Middle Eastern turmoil. SOLID B

LAWRENCE IN ARABIA: WAR, DECEIT, IMPERIAL FOLLY AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2013