QUANTUM PHYSICS THRILLER is an over-the-top pageturner; THE DA VINCI CODE meets A BEAUTIFUL MIND, maybe?

A TUDOR SCANDAL RETOLD with a journalistic touch in this well researched examination of the Amy Robsart mystery.

DRIVEN LONDON DETECTIVE Anna Travis hunts a serial killer in this tense, edgy procedural from Lynda La Plante.

A BELOVED DOG inspires a man to stop drinking and start living. Touching, candid, and surprisingly wry.

GOSSIPY, FUN HISTORY looks at the madams and dance-hall girls who were high rollers in 19th-century Montana.

GORGEOUS, TERRIFYING, HEART-STOPPING memoir of an artist’s life in flight from a schizophrenic mother’s rages.

1920s PARIS, VIVIDLY reimagined from the point of view of Hadley Richardson (Mrs. Ernest) Hemingway. Great beachread!

CLEAR-EYED, FUNNY, TRENCHANT memoir of a childhood shaped by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, family dysfunction.

GRIM, CHILLING BLEND of alternate history, science fiction, and fantasy takes on early 20th-century eugenics. B PLUS

ELIZABETHAN THRILLER STARS philosopher Giordano Bruno as sleuth; rich in details of court life, low on thrills. B MINUS