

"Soul Circus" by George Pelecanos: detective fiction set in the mean streets of Washington, D. C.
"Errors and Omissions" by Paul Goldstein, a legal thriller linking McCarthy-era blacklists to current-day murder in Los Angeles and a desperate search for the real screenwriter of a valuable spy movie.
"A Corpse in the Koryo" by James Church, an unusual and excellent mystery set in North Korea and written under a pseudonym by a former intelligence agent.








