NESTED TALES OF gay men and single mothers, complex characterizations, rich historical context…good stuff.

VIVIDLY DRAWN PORTRAIT of a writer’s hardscrabble childhood and her charismatic, deeply troubled mother.

ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING look at how mathematics and statistics are used (and misused) in the courtroom.

A MIDLIFE MIDLIST WRITER’S howl of pain in the form of a memoir.  Admirably honest, yet somehow unappealing.

INTERESTING LOOK AT how ideas, products, and media “go viral,” with in-depth data from studies and interviews.

EVERY PARENT’S NIGHTMARE—child abduction—spun into a mythic, poetic tapestry by Joyce Carol Oates.

CHILLING ECO-HORROR TALE touches on love, innocence, science, history, and the future amid fast-paced thrills.

A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race. Thought-provoking and engaging. SOLID B

THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN
Free Press
2012

A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race.  Thought-provoking and engaging.

GLOBETROTTING FINANCIAL THRILLER stars Ava Lee, a sleuth with gifts for numbers and martial arts. Elegant fun!