QUIRKY, BITTERSWEET FABLE of an eccentric family seen through a child’s eyes. Prizewinning French novel newly translated! SOLID B

WAITING FOR BOJANGLES (HARDCOVER)
Simon & Schuster
2019

A WILD THRILLER EXPLODES with cryptocurrency, international gangsters, chase scenes, and lots of sex. Delightful if implausible. SOLID B

THE VOSS COIN: A NOVEL
A.B. Alexander
2019

A MOMMY BLOGGER’S SECRET unraveled by a young cop with a complicated family situation. Clever premise, lots of action. SOLID B

TAINTED LOVE (AN ALEX MERCER THRILLER BOOK 6)
Stacy Claflin
2019

STYLISH STREET SAGA of a Flint, Michigan gangster gone legit and focusing on family—and on his own search for love. SOLID B

ETHIC
Ashley Antoinette
2018

NOIR TIME TRAVEL yarn jumps from a dystopian near future to the 1970s; plenty of pointed political satire along the way. SOLID B

DEMOLITION NIGHT
Tough Poets Press
2018

CHARMING CIRCUS COZY mystery stars a tiny but fierce trick rider protagonist and a vivid cast of characters. SOLID B

BIG TOP TREACHERY
CeeCee James
2018

TWO EXPATRIATES IN PARIS, an American historian and a young Moroccan student, haunted by history—and perhaps actual ghosts. SOLID B

PARIS ECHO
Henry Holt & Company
2018

A LIGHT-HEARTED HISTORY OF CHILI peppers offers surprising insights culinary, botanical, cultural, and historical. SOLID B

THE DEVIL'S DINNER (HARDCOVER)
St. Martin's Press
2018

INTRIGUING THRILLER, VIVID New Mexico setting: a burned-out financial genius stumbles into a deadly clash of cults. SOLID B

THE TORCHBEARERS: A NOVEL
Terra Nova Books
2018

FRENCH ARTISTS IN LOVE: novel about Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore shines brightest when portraying their anti-Nazi resistance. SOLID B

NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU (HARDCOVER)
Other Press
2018