THE GREAT VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN NOVEL may be this tale of a family fragmented by secrets as much as by diaspora.

A YOUNG WOMAN’S OBSESSION with a classic novel turns her life upside down in this funny, insightful book.

MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED, HAUNTING psychological mystery set in the art world of Victorian Scotland.

ANOTHER GENTLE METAPHYSICAL mystery for Alexander McCall Smith’s Scottish philosopher-sleuth Isabel Dalhousie.

LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY at this ridiculous comic thriller by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. R-rated, wacky, fun!

TERROR AND ADVENTURE in a virtual world filled with digital clones of history’s tyrants and psychopaths. Wow!

M.C. BEATON’S LATEST Highland whodunit swirls environmentalism, family secrets, fairy legends into the mystery.

19th CENTURY NEW ORLEANS is the setting for a well-crafted, complex mystery with a free man of color as sleuth.

ENGAGING MYSTERY STARS an ex-nun turned sleuth, unwillingly returning to her old convent to solve a murder.

FUNNY, CLEVERLY WROUGHT, occasionally gory tale of pest control professionals on the run from assassins.