HAPLESS, NEUROTIC SLEUTH Teddy Ruzak is back with  another complicated (and less lighthearted than usual) case.

A STEAMPUNK CYBORG CIRCUS roams a postapocalyptic world in a dreamlike, poetic, vividly imagined tale.

SNARKY, FAST-PACED CAPER with a casino setting and a memorable cast of grifters, drifters, and gamblers.

MASTER OF SPEC-FIC SILLINESS Tom Holt brings us another delightfully funny romp of magic and muddled dimensions.

INTRIGUE AT A MUMBAI research institute highlights the impact of class, caste, and gender in deftly comic novel.

THE BEST MAISIE DOBBS mystery yet finds the English sleuth facing the fallout of 1932’s international tensions.

MOTHER/DAUGHTER CONFLICTS plus the perils of minor celebrity status add up to thoughtful, edgy women’s fiction.

TENSE, TAUT FINANCIAL THRILLER from Norb Vonnegut is set in the rarefied world of global hedge fund skulduggery.

A SUDDEN TRAGEDY links two Cape Cod families in this delicate, complex, elegaic novel.  Truly touching.

MEDICAL/LEGAL THRILLER’S timely Big Pharma theme, vivid courtroom detail are sadly undermined by clunky prose.