CHARMING ENGLISH VILLAGE cozy mystery, first in a series featuring a stage magician-turned vicar as sleuth.

‘GONZO’ JOURNALISM-FLAVORED, engaging true crime tale of the 40-year investigation of skyjacker D. B. Cooper.

QUIRKY, SARDONIC, SALINGERESQUE tale of a family both united and divided by the parents’ performance art.

POET AND WRITER Diane Ackerman’s lyrical, heartbreaking memoir of her novelist husband’s stroke and recovery.

BLEAK AND WISTFUL satire on the excesses of celebrity culture has lots of bitter insights, not many laughs.

THE TUDOR COURT’S most opaque figure, Queen Jane Seymour, fictionalized tastefully but with little sparkle.

STEAMPUNK FANTASY SPACE OPERA offers magic swords, copper robots, and interplanetary travel. Third in a series.

MYSTERY/COMEDY OF MANNERS offers some sharply observed satire of upwardly mobile Manhattanites amid the gore.

TIME TRAVEL, NANOMACHINES, alternate history combine in a novel of intriguing ideas (if lackluster characters).

JAMES BOND 007, Jeffery Deaver style! Starts slowly (and may disappoint Bond purists) but a darn good thriller.