DREAMLIKE, HAUNTING TALE of parallel universes and crossed destinies from Haruki Murakami. Vast and astonishing!

COMPLEX, WELL-CONSTRUCTED SUSPENSE novel has plenty of chills and an interesting, troubled heroine. Spooky!

CHARMING HISTORICAL COZY features a group of spunky Georgia schoolteachers as sleuths, lots of WWII details.

TROUBLED ADULTS WITH childhood secrets are center stage in Laura Lippman’s latest, but Baltimore is the star.

MAGIC ON LONG ISLAND?  Yes, and mythology too,  in YA star Melissa de la Cruz’s engrossing debut for adults.

GRITTY, ABSURDIST NOIR caper–a new genre for Eoin Colfer!–stars an Irishman at odds with the New Jersey mob.

CHARMING ENGLISH VILLAGE cozy mystery, first in a series featuring a stage magician-turned vicar as sleuth.

QUIRKY, SARDONIC, SALINGERESQUE tale of a family both united and divided by the parents’ performance art.

BLEAK AND WISTFUL satire on the excesses of celebrity culture has lots of bitter insights, not many laughs.

THE TUDOR COURT’S most opaque figure, Queen Jane Seymour, fictionalized tastefully but with little sparkle.