RICHLY EVOCATIVE NOVEL tells the story of a young musician’s life in rural India. Lovely prose and detail. SOLID B

DANCING TO THE FLUTE
Atria Books
2013

BIOENGINEERED ANIMALS?  ENGAGING overview of the past, present, and near future of high-tech beasties.

MURDER AND CORRUPTION in a Florida beach resort? All in a day’s work for the “Dead End Job” detectives. SOLID B

BOARD STIFF
New American Library
2013

HUGELY ENTERTAINING REVIEW of baseball’s unluckiest and worst players. Great fun, well researched! #beachread SOLID B

WHO’S ON WORST?: THE LOUSIEST PLAYERS, BIGGEST CHEATERS, SADDEST GOATS AND OTHER ANTIHEROES IN BASEBALL HISTORY
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2013

HUGELY ENTERTAINING REVIEW of baseball’s least competent players. Clever fun, well researched. #beachread

GRAVE, ELEGAIC NOVEL explores the bonds that flourish at a Florida “lunatic asylum” during the Civil War. SOLID B

BLUE ASYLUM
Mariner Books
2013

GRIM, LUSH, COMPLEX historical mystery, set in a brutal 1927 Poland, has an offbeat metaphysical bleakness. SOLID B

THE END OF THE WORLD IN BRESLAU
Melville International Crime
2013

ACTOR/SLEUTH CHARLES PARIS is back, older and sadder but no wiser, in another sharp English theater cozy. SOLID B

A DECENT INTERVAL (CHARLES PARIS SERIES #18)
Severn House Publishers
2013

ENGAGING HISTORY LOOKS at eight 19th-century US women attorneys, reveals much about challenges they faced.

A PUNK ROCK DIVA, legendary hairstylist’s memoir of her ups and downs in the wild 1980s East Village scene. SOLID B

HARLEY LOCO : A MEMOIR OF HARD LIVING, HAIR, AND POST-PUNK, FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE
Viking Books
2013