The 68th Annual Edgar Awards
/Irma Heldman, Open Letters' resident mystery expert, attended this year's Edgar Awards. She reports back on the highlights (and the banquet's best themed desserts).
Read MoreBook Review: Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well
/In Nancy Atherton's latest "Aunt Dimity" novel, a handsome young stranger comes to the little village of Finch - and he's chaos follows in his wake
Read MoreBook Review: Athens
/A slim and jam-packed new history of the city of Athens
Read MoreBook Review: The Homing Instinct
/Birds, turtles, bees, fish, whales ... vast armies of living things traverse vast swatches of distance every year in their migrations. But how do they find their way? And WHY do they find their way? Bernd Heinrich's new book explores the homing instinct.
Read MoreBook Review: The Chance
/The scenic seacoast town of Thunder Point plays host to more than its fair share of romantic drama in Robyn Carr's popular series
Read MoreBook Review: Midnight Pursuits
/An elite mercenary and an elite thief cross paths - with wonderfully predictable results - in Elle Kennedy's latest "Killer Instincts" novel
Read MoreBook Review: Risky Game
/A muscular NFL demigod is stalked by a spunky blogger in Tracy Solheim's latest "Out of Bounds" novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hope Ignites
/A hard-hearted cattle rancher is intrigued by the young Hollywood movie star filming shoot on his property in Jaci Burton's latest "Hope" novel
Read MoreBook Review: Willing Sacrifice
/A battle-hardened warrior must fight for the very memory of the woman he loves in Shannon Butcher's latest 'Sentinel Wars' novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Sweetheart Rules
/Three old ladies watch over a town in Florida where broken hearts go to mend in Shirley Jump's follow-up to "The Sweetheart Bargain"
Read MoreBook Review: The Transformation of the World
/A sprawling new history of the world during the 'long' 19th century
Read MoreThe Selves in Ourself
/In Valeria Luiselli's debut novel, a young Mexican woman imagines the real life of a long-dead man whose writings she has forged in the voice of a famous American poet. Then things get complicated.
Read MoreBook Review: From Pompeii
/Pompeii and Herculaneum, the two most famous lost cities of the ancient world, had a long and vivid afterlife in culture and literature, as Ingrid Rowland's insightful new book describes
Read MoreBook Review: The Fights on the Little Horn
/The darkly iconic Last Stand of George Armstrong Custer receives an exuberantly detailed new account
Read MoreBook Review: Destroying Angel
/In Nevada Barr's latest thriller, her indefatigable main character must track a group of hired killers through the wilderness in order to save their hostages
Read MoreBook Review: Hummingbirds
/The world's smallest and busiest birds are the subject of a pretty new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Sea House
/In Elisabeth Gifford's impressive debut, two couples, separated by a century, each confront Scotland's legends of the seal-folk.
Read MoreBook Review: Strange Glory
/The famous clerical martyr to the Nazi regime is the subject of a powerful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Price of Silence
/The notorious Duke Lacrosse rape case - and its tawdry aftermath - is the subject of a veteran journalist's big new book
Read MoreBook Review: A Great & Wretched City
/A fascinating new book looks at the long political and historical writings of the author of "The Prince"
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