LIFE WITH HOARDING PARENTS, and its impact on a writer’s psyche, told with compassion, frankness, and love. SOLID B

COMING CLEAN
New Harvest
2014

LIFE WITH HOARDING PARENTS, and its impact on a writer’s psyche, told with compassion, frankness, and love.

THE 1954 NEW ZEALAND MURDER made notorious in the film HEAVENLY CREATURES, superbly researched and reported. SOLID B

ANNE PERRY AND THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY
Skyhorse Publishing
2013

1980s MANHATTAN AND ITS music scene (brilliantly revisited) and a “what if?” story about a woman’s choices. SOLID B

THE ORIGINAL 1982
William Morrow & Company
2013

A TOUGH, COMPASSIONATE WOMAN sleuth amid the beauty (and class divisions!) of Santa Barbara: cool new series! SOLID B

BLOOD ORANGE
Minotaur Books
2013

A COMPLICATED MARRIAGE and dysfunctional family of origin: unlikely sources of humor in witty, frank memoir. SOLID B

LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: TWENTY YEARS OF MONOGAMY IN ONE TERRIFYING MEMOIR
St. Martin’s Press
2013

A WORRYWART STATISTICIAN FINDS himself in the business of disaster consulting. Near-future satire with snap! SOLID B

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW
Farrar
2013

CHILLING TRUE-CRIME TALE of New Jersey nurse and multiple murderer Charles Cullen. Detailed, taut reportage! SOLID B

THE GOOD NURSE : A TRUE STORY OF MEDICINE, MADNESS, AND MURDER
Twelve
2013

FUNNY, TOUCHING, QUIRKY memoir in the form of apologies to everyone the writer ever offended or let down. SOLID B

PUBLIC APOLOGY: IN WHICH A MAN GRAPPLES WITH A LIFETIME OF REGRET, ONE INCIDENT AT A TIME
Grand Central Publishing
2013

AN INTERNET POKER EMPIRE’S rise and fall, told with punch by the always-entertaining Ben Mezrich. #beachread SOLID B

STRAIGHT FLUSH
William Morrow & Company
2013