A REPORTER BATTLING inner demons investigates a murder, interviews sex offenders. Vivid New Orleans details.

A DISGRACED DOCTOR UNCOVERS a sordid web of crime in this classic Italian sixties pulp novel (newly translated).

THE DETECTIVE ADVENTURES of a gentle but worldly (a WWII combat veteran!) vicar in 1950s England. Charming.

TAUT, SUSPENSEFUL TALE follows a high-end madam whose safe double life as a suburban mom is rapidly unraveling.

ELEGANT BUSINESS SKULDUGGERY and lovely evocations of Marseille and environs enliven a formulaic caper story.

COMPLEX, THOUGHTFUL HISTORICAL mystery features vivid characterization and a wealth of 1780s English detail.

RAMSHACKLE DELTA PICARESQUE finds two tough repo men trying to help the world’s most no-account thieves.

BLEAK, COMPLEX POLICE procedural from Swedish crime fiction star Håkan Nesser. Atmospheric, if dour, puzzler!

COMPLEX, SATISFYING MYSTERY set in Margaret Maron’s truer-than-life Colleton County, North Carolina. Absorbing!

SHARP FRENCH THRILLER has an admirably complex plot, lots of action, intriguing neuroscience-fiction premise.