Daily Book Reviews

In this smart and well-paced thriller, former archaeologist Jonathan Marcus is a brainy action hero who delves into biblical lore and historical revisionism.

A recently widowed former British TV news anchor frantically searches for meaning in this novel that knows its setting.

A passion for food leads the writer to eating disorders, diets and ultimately a healthier relationship with food.

Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R.

The late Swedish author’s cache of manuscripts given to his publisher just prior to his death yields a pulse-pounding follow-up to ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.’

The author brings wit and humor to the story of a group of friends in post-2001 America looking back on their activist ways in the 1960s.

A professor’s midlife meltdown over the loss of his parents and his daughter’s wedding is portrayed with sympathy and slapstick humor by the author of “Bridge of Sighs” and “Empire Falls.”

Comparisons to Cormac McCarthy’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ may be unavoidable, but ‘Rain Gods’ is its own stylish slice of contemporary Texas noir.

Stories offer characters not revenge or redemption but the simple gift of acceptance.

The late author pulls off a seemingly impossible job: making an absurd conceit believable.

A dream jackpot win turns into a nightmare.

The writer brings his reportorial eye for detail and experience in the field to a story about a foreign correspondent in Kosovo seeking the leader of a band of Arab rebels.

A biography of Agatha Christie examines in detail her 1926 disappearance.

A compelling look at the birth and evolution of recording, and how it changed the way the world hears itself.

Waters’ first novel, which borrows liberally from some of her previous stories, is an intimate portrait of family.

Michael Shapiro’s almost too-inside account of Rickey’s innovative but ultimately doomed bid to overhaul the sport in 1958-60.

In the novel, a writer tries to tell a tale of romance in spite of, and sometimes with inspiration from, the censor.

Call it a love letter to the diversity, polyglot sprawl, complexities, contradictions, pitfalls, humanity and streetlife of the metropolis.

The enigmatic singer-songwriter emerges as a fascinating, if frustrating, subject to tackle.

Nimbly translated from its original German, this bizarre mystery-thriller manages to come together winningly in the end.