WILD, ONLY-IN-MIAMI comic caper from the inimitable Dave Barry. Lots of action, laughs in this fun #beachread. B PLUS

INSANE CITY
Putnam Adult
2013

FASCINATING TRUE CRIME story of a brilliant academic whose career was cut short by his high-profile felonies. B PLUS

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MAD PROFESSOR : A TRUE TALE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, ILLEGAL DRUGS, AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
Lyons Press
2013

FASCINATING TRUE CRIME story of a brilliant academic whose career was cut short by his high-profile felonies.

LIFE WITH HOARDING PARENTS, and its impact on a writer’s psyche, told with compassion, frankness, and love. SOLID B

COMING CLEAN
New Harvest
2014

LIFE WITH HOARDING PARENTS, and its impact on a writer’s psyche, told with compassion, frankness, and love.

THE END OF A MARRIAGE, explored in beautiful prose, but with so little candor that the memoir falls flat. B MINUS

AFTERMATH: ON MARRIAGE AND SEPARATION
Picador
2013

INTRIGUING HISTORICAL NOVEL combines a lively evocation of 1920s New York with psychological twists and turns. B PLUS

THE OTHER TYPIST
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
2013

BIG, MYTHIC HORROR from Joe Hill, full of Americana, local color, a little sardonic humor. Scary #beachread! B PLUS

NOS4A2
William Morrow
2013

LOSING 180 POUNDS: how it changed one woman’s life for good (and ill). Devastatingly honest, quirky memoir. B PLUS

STRANGER HERE : HOW WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY TRANSFORMED MY BODY AND MESSED WITH MY HEAD
Seal Press (CA)
2013

THE 1954 NEW ZEALAND MURDER made notorious in the film HEAVENLY CREATURES, superbly researched and reported. SOLID B

ANNE PERRY AND THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY
Skyhorse Publishing
2013