"The Conditions of Love" (Grand Central Publishing), by Dale M. Kushner   The child of wayward parents, Eunice is a bright, often headstrong girl who makes few friends her own age...

"By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There," (Atria Books), by Tom Sizemore, with Anna David   The cover photo of Tom Sizemore's autobiography, "By Some Miracle I Made It Out...

"The Famous and the Dead" (Dutton), by T. Jefferson Parker   "The Famous and the Dead" is billed as the final installment in T. Jefferson Parker's six-volume saga...

"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...