"Let It Burn" (Minotaur), by Steve Hamilton.   Each Alex McKnight novel has revealed a little about the part-time private detective's troubled past: his failed marriage, his...

"Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations" (Simon & Schuster), by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner   "I'm tired of remembering," actress Ava Gardner laments during one of...

"Sisterland" (Random House), by Curtis Sittenfeld   To characterize Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel, "Sisterland," as an ideal beach read isn't meant as an insult....

"Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey" (PublicAffairs), by Peter Carlson   Among the tens of thousands of books written about the American...

"Children of the Jacaranda Tree" (Atria Books), by Sahar Delijani   Let's get one thing out of the way: I admire Sahar Delijani for taking on post-revolutionary Iran as the...

"Crime of Privilege" (Ballantine Books), by Walter Walker   How much wealth does it take to be above the law? What rules come with being a member of the privileged class? Those are...

Heritage Malta has just launched its latest publication: The Inquisitor’s Palace: an architectural gem spanning centuries and style.   The book is a collection of papers by curators...

"The Heist" (Bantam), by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg   Janet Evanovich, creator of the popular novels featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, teams up with Lee Goldberg,...

"Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Sara Gran   "Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway" just might be the bleakest noir tale since...

"Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey" (PublicAffairs), by Peter Carlson   Among the tens of thousands of books written about the American...