Juliet, Naked: a novel By Nick Hornby, Riverhead, 2009 $25.95 Hornby
tells the story of a mismatched couple living in a decaying town on the
English coast who come to a parting of the ways in a disagreement about
the merits of a songwriter’s new album.
Blood’s a Rover By James Ellroy, Knopf, 2009 $28.95 Ellroy,
SoCal’s hardest-hitting crime fiction writer, concludes his mid-century
American history trilogy that covers 1968 to 1972 and features a crazy,
compelling mix of historical and fictional characters.
The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown, Doubleday, 2009 $29.95 Brown’s
third Robert Langer thriller looks at Freemasonry and revolves around a
Capitol Hill conspiracy. As expected, “The Lost Symbol” rocketed to No.
1 on the New York Times best-seller list.