Lloyd Sachs

“Force of Nature” by Jane Harper, Flatiron, 326 pages, $25.99 This eagerly awaited follow-up to Australian novelist Jane Harper's sensational debut, "The Dry," has a lot in common with that...

As the latest woman in fiction to spend a lot of time gazing out her window, Anna Fox is not as sympathetic a figure as, say, Emma Bovary. A child...

“Insidious Intent” by Val McDermid, Grove Atlantic, 432 pages, $26 British cop Carol Jordan, who with eccentric psychologist Tony Hill forms one of crime fiction's most entertaining duos, is on...

"The Midnight Line” by Lee Child, Delacorte, 368 pages, $28.99 Bruce Springsteen might have written "From Small Things (Big Things Come)" for Jack Reacher. Time and again, an object or...

"Yesterday" by Felicia Yap, Mulholland, 400 pages, $27 In the alternative dimension of "Yesterday," the world consists of Duos, people who have two days of short-term memory, and Monos, a...

In "The Moaning Bench," one of many highlights in James McBride's new story collection, a Muhammad Ali-inspired boxer who died after getting knocked down during a championship bout struts his...