The eighth Sean Duffy novel by terrific Irish writer Adrian McKinty is a dusted-off story we’ve heard a million times.

Don’t care.

Burned-out star detective with spotty record pushes papers and waits a couple years until his pension fully vests. Bosses beg him to take on one last case. Like the “one final heist” plot of countless crime...Read more

It’s perhaps inevitable that Holly Brickley’s “Deep Cuts” will be likened to other noteworthy (feeble pun intended) books that incorporate music — most recently “Daisy Jones and the Six,” possibly “High Fidelity,” etc. But being compared favorably to previous bestsellers isn’t the only thing that makes “Deep Cuts” stand ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Battle ...Read more

Alan Page is widely recognized for his past careers off the bench as a Minnesota Viking and on the bench as a Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, but the Pro Football Hall-of-Famer has been carving out a name for himself in another arena: children’s book author.

Page recently released “Baking Up Love” ($18.99, Page Education Foundation), the...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Here’s a hot take. Publishing beautiful books has never mattered more than now. Gorgeous covers, gilded edges, swirly endpapers and sharp illustrations have long been ways to give the words inside importance, draw readers to new stories, make old stories fresh, create an immersive experience and in some cases show status.

But now...Read more

Curtis Sittenfeld’s last novel was the bestselling “Romantic Comedy.” That partly ironic title could apply to the “Eligible” and “American Wife” writer’s new collection, “Show Don’t Tell.”

The 12 stories in the Minneapolis writer‘s new book feature an artist who sets out to prove that “the Mike Pence rule” is wrong ...Read more

It’s a commonplace that women of middle age and older become invisible, meaning they are no longer noticed by men, or by the world in general. For Jane Tara’s heroine, Tilda Finch, this is no metaphor.

In “Tilda Is Visible,” the title character wakes one day to find she cannot see her pinky finger — she senses that it’s still there,...Read more

An ingenious idea goes a long way in “The Queens of Crime.”

It’s 1930. We’re in London, where popular mystery writer Agatha Christie and not-as-popular mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers (her Lord Peter Wimsey was the star of a PBS series in the 1970s) are miffed that their work is derided in the Detection Club.

Male members of that real...Read more

The investment world can be difficult to navigate, especially if you’re just starting out. There are lots of confusing terms and complicated acronyms that can turn off someone who’s looking to learn more about financial concepts.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of investing books that can help you learn what you need to know to become a ...Read more

CHICAGO — George E. Johnson, at 97, is a rich man. He’s been a rich man since the 1960s. He’s owned yachts, cattle ranches and a home in France. Years ago, he took a French lover; they divorced after a short marriage. He lived in Glencoe much of his life. He had a tennis court and swimming pool, and when his first wife came home from ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 22, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Onyx Storm (...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan crime reporter and editor John Counts understands rural Michiganians.

He's lived and worked all over the state covering crime, but he also fishes, hunts and plays guitar. The seasoned journalist — the son of a veteran Michigan journalist, the late Jeff Counts — is gearing up to release a book of short tales titled "Bear...Read more

Last October the bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates, promoting a new book with a chapter on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, dropped by CBS for an interview in which host Tony Dokoupil blasted him with a series of questions that all but accused Coates of antisemitism.

Coates hit back with respectful rebuttals, yet the controversy quickly went ...Read more

Most fans of the Oscar telecast will tell you the best — or, at least, realest — part of the show is when the TV screen shows all five acting nominees, waiting to learn if they’ve won while working on their conciliatory, “yes, they really deserved it”/loser faces.

Daniel D’Addario’s novel, “The Talent,” lives in that moment ...Read more

I don’t know of whom I’m more jealous, Lorne Michaels or Susan Morrison. The latter’s “Lorne” is one of the best biographies I’ve ever read. It’s as though she videotaped his life and the lives of everyone he’s ever spoken to, edited out all the boring parts and left us a book rich in details and anecdotes.

Her achievement is ...Read more

Is it getting sleuthy in here?

There are a lot of mysteries on the way in March. There’s also the return of two fictional women we’d all like to have on our side if we were in the vicinity of a murder: Minnesota’s Cash Blackbear and San Francisco’s Vera Wong.

As these five much-anticipated titles reveal, March also seems to be a good ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Allen Eskens was driving to a library when he came up with the idea for his new book. The main character is, not surprisingly, a librarian.

Eskens, who lives in Cleveland, Minnesota, drives to a lot of libraries so he can’t recall which one it was, other than that it was in southeast Minnesota. But he does recall his thought ...Read more

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants to dazzle critics and readers. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually every part of that sentence is wrong.

Rebecca Romney, the author and occasional “Pawn Stars” guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a...Read more