QUIET, POWERFUL, POETIC, VIVID novel follows four Minnesota Gen Xer friends from junior high through their 30s.

WACKY META-MYSTERY is also a parody of dysfunctional collaborations, authors undermining each other. Good fun!

MOODY, PICARESQUE TALE of disillusion, politics, finance, and love set against Bolivia’s 2005 elections.

SCOTLAND’S MOST ECCENTRIC DETECTIVE, Hamish Macbeth, is back with another taut mystery all snuggled up in cozy.

CLEVER MASHUP OF society novels and supernatural thrillers features a plucky heroine, a mother-in-law from Hell.

COZY SEASIDE MYSTERY is as brilliant as its sixty-something sleuths, a New Age healer and her civil servant pal.

COZY MINNESOTA COOKING mystery is as charming as its 13 predecessors, but skimping on central whodunnit annoys.

REALITY-BENDING EXPERIMENTAL novel offers moments of simple poetry, enigmatic doublings in cool graphic design.

DELICATE COMING-OF-AGE novel about an introspective white suburban boy; impressive depth, breadth for its ilk.

DRY WIT AND BARCELONA flavor make this Catalan mystery (with bumbling Columboesque twin detectives!) awesome.