"Paris: The Novel" (Doubleday), by Edward Rutherfurd   Paris has been both good and bad to the aristocratic de Cygne family over the centuries. While one generation was welcome at...

"Seduction: a Novel of Suspense" (Atria Books), by M.J. Rose   "Seduction," M.J. Rose's follow-up to her acclaimed "The Book of Lost Fragrances," seduces...

"The Fever Tree" (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam), by Jennifer McVeigh   Jennifer McVeigh's first novel, "The Fever Tree," is a lovely one. It's lovely in the way of a...

"The Ophelia Cut" (Atria Books), by John Lescroart   A young woman makes a bad decision and her father ends up a murder suspect in "The Ophelia Cut," John Lescroart's...

"Murder as a Fine Art" (Mulholland), by David Morrell   Murder is horrifying, but what if some psycho decided it could be an art and proceeded to create a masterpiece? In his...

"The Devil in Her Way: a Novel" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Bill Loehfelm   When we first met Maureen Coughlin in 2011's "The Devil She Knows," the petite Staten...

"Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal" (W.W. Norton & Co.), by Mary Roach   We love food. We savor it, digest it, absorb the best and pass the rest.   That...

"The Woman Upstairs" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Claire Messud   Nora Eldridge is "the woman upstairs" in the title of Claire Messud's new novel — "the quiet...

This book by Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren is a haunting evocation of the ruined country estates of the Russian aristocracy of the 18th and 19th centuries.  Revolution, civil war, invasion,...

"The Hit" (Grand Central Publishing), by David Baldacci   Will Robie, a government assassin seen in last year's "The Innocent," returns in a bigger and bolder...