BLEAK, COMPLEX POLICE procedural from Swedish crime fiction star Håkan Nesser. Atmospheric, if dour, puzzler!

THE CLASH OF CULTURES dramatized in this sharply witty picaresque novel of Spaniard vs. Arawak in 1520 Jamaica.

TOPICAL TECHNO-THRILLER FEATURES drones, hackers, “black ops”–ripped-from-the-headlines Crichtonesque chills!

AFTER HER DEATH, an English writer’s children and grandchildren discover her secrets. Well done family drama.

ROLLICKING COMIC NOVEL about the misadventures of a larger-than-life country girl in a snooty beach resort.

COMPLEX, SATISFYING MYSTERY set in Margaret Maron’s truer-than-life Colleton County, North Carolina. Absorbing!

PRE-WAR ENGLISH COMEDY OF manners turns into a dreamlike tale of family secrets and the afterlife.  Haunting!

WONDERFUL STEAMPUNKY EPIC set in a not-quite-our-Earth reminiscent of Mark Twain’s frontier, with science/magic.

WISTFUL, COMPELLING GHOST story in the grand English tradition of Daphne du Maurier and Susan Hill.

EXTRAORDINARY, SWEEPING STORY set in 1950s Malaysia covers questions of love, art, war, cruelty, and beauty.