META-THRILLER DELIGHTS, SURPRISES: lots of action, and snark about publishing, academia, and the spy business.

GRITTY GLASGOW POLICE procedural has lots of local color, an admirably twisty plot, and memorable lady sleuths.

SLY, GRIMLY CHARMING prep-school thriller: part HARRIET THE SPY, part THE SECRET HISTORY, entirely engrossing.

TENSE PARANORMAL THRILLER with a touch of snark as the UK’s supernatural secret service takes on US cultists.

LIGHTHEARTED CHICK-LIT tone sits oddly with the “seeing ghosts” theme of this novel. Great LA details, though!

RETURNING TO DETROIT after a mysterious murder, a man and woman find new hope as well as answers. Atmospheric.

CHARMING COMIC NOVEL in blog form follows a sweet but dim English housewife through a crash course in reality.

GORGEOUS, ELEGAIC PRIVATE-EYE yarn captures the spirit of 1970s Chile–with poet Pablo Neruda as the client!

ACID SATIRE ON the US political media industrial complex is laugh out loud funny, yet all too true at times.

INTRICATE, DETAIL-RICH MYSTERY set in 1845 New York paints a vivid picture of the changing city. Haunting!