LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, BETRAYAL, loss, and the last spasms of the Cold War are the core of this luminous novel. A MINUS

YOU ARE ONE OF THEM
Penguin Group (USA)
2013

HISTORY COMES TO LIFE in this compelling look at the women who were part of WWII’s Oak Ridge atomic project. A MINUS

THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY
Touchstone
2013

EXQUISITELY CRAFTED NOVEL about the inner lives of a dwindling group of elderly friends in rural England.

SPLENDID HISTORICAL NOVEL tracks a courtier-physician’s quest for self-knowledge during Charles II’s reign. A MINUS

MERIVEL: A MAN OF HIS TIME
W. W. Norton & Company
2013

THE POWER OF ART, both to heal and to hurt, takes center stage in this fascinating, brutally frank novel.

A CHILD’S DISAPPEARANCE plays out against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia in this complex, deft historical.

MARVELOUS COMIC NOIR stars a sleuthing burglar embroiled with mobsters and old-school rock ‘n’ roll.

GAMES, THEATER, MAGIC, and the tangled relationships of young Manhattan academics.  Absorbing, complex novel.

SAVAGE BLACK COMEDY mocks social climbing, politics, family ties, Dutch society, the idea of sanity itself.

DELIGHTFULLY TWISTED SCIENCE FICTION: a hapless schlub discovers apocalyptic physics and wacky multiverses.