A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race. Thought-provoking and engaging. SOLID B

THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN
Free Press
2012

A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race.  Thought-provoking and engaging.

A FATHER’S MEMOIR of his son’s experience of autism reflects their shared humor and bookish quirkiness.

PERFECTLY POISED BETWEEN nightmare and satire, this horror tale rips into the upscale parenting Zeitgeist.

THE COMPLICATED CHILDHOODS and eccentric adult lives of Charles Dickens’s nine children, engagingly related.

DREAMLIKE TALE OF an 1890s New Yorker in China, haunted by the ghost of his first love in a time of strife.

GRACEFUL COMEDY OF manners set in the insular world of the French old-money elite; crisply translated fun!

SWEET LATE-VICTORIAN COZY stars an Indian princess living at Hampton Court with seedy gentry for neighbors.

ENCYCLOPEDICALLY CREEPY HISTORY of US mass murderers and serial killers, from the 18th century through today.

FASCINATING STORIES OF the lives of the Russian aristocracy, from the eve of revolution to later reprisals.