GRACEFUL, GENTLE, COMPLEX first novel follows an everyman bank manager through his daughter’s wedding day. SOLID B

YOU DON’T LOVE THIS MAN
HarperCollins Publishers
2011

WARM-HEARTED WOMEN’S FICTION looks at all kinds of love, including ’70s celebrity crushes. Sweet and fun. B PLUS

I THINK I LOVE YOU
Knopf
2011

HEART-STOPPINGLY BEAUTIFUL, terrifying memoir of a writer’s Southern Gothic childhood, quest for the divine. SOLID A

HOUSE OF PRAYER NO. 2
Nan A. Talese
2011

OLD-SCHOOL DETECTIVE YARN like only Loren D. Estleman can write ’em; Detroit setting, scruffy characters shine. B PLUS

THE LEFT-HANDED DOLLAR (AMOS WALKER SERIES #20)
Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
2010

POETIC, CHARMING LITTLE reverie on the most famous photograph by “Lewis Carroll” of his girl-muse Alice Liddell.

TENSE, COMPLEX THRILLER, the 8th to feature elite security agent Charlie Fox, finds her taking on a deadly cult.

LUMINOUS MEDITATION on love and loss, war and peace, traces friendship of a Mauritian boy and a Holocaust exile.

THE PAST IS PRESENT in an atmospheric mystery featuring an English detective literally haunted by World War I.

GRACEFUL, ADAGIO PROSE and a memorable heroine in this tale of a young scientist’s Alice-in-Wonderland life.

CHARMING COZY MYSTERY, fifth in a series for mother/daughter antiquer sleuths. Complex plot, cute characters.