STEAMPUNK FANTASY SPACE OPERA offers magic swords, copper robots, and interplanetary travel. Third in a series.

MYSTERY/COMEDY OF MANNERS offers some sharply observed satire of upwardly mobile Manhattanites amid the gore.

TIME TRAVEL, NANOMACHINES, alternate history combine in a novel of intriguing ideas (if lackluster characters).

JAMES BOND 007, Jeffery Deaver style! Starts slowly (and may disappoint Bond purists) but a darn good thriller.

SASSY, FAST-PACED PARANORMAL mystery features a wisecracking thief turned sleuth and a great supporting cast.

EPIC, SWEEPING HISTORICAL novel follows Richard the Lionhearted on crusade. Lots of detail, court intrigue.

CREEPY NOIR COMEDY about a woman who finds her calling in mercy killings–of her perfectly healthy friends.

WONDERFULLY IMAGINATIVE FANTASY riff on a takeover bid in Hell is a YA title plenty sharp enough for grownups.

WISTFUL, HAUNTING LITTLE fable of how love, friendship, and imagination persist and flourish under oppression.

DECK THE HALLS with Flavia de Luce! The spookily precocious child sleuth returns for a Christmassy whodunit.