cover image Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes

Rosamond Smith. Onyx Books, $4.99 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-451-40382-7

Under the pseudonym which she uses for her psychological thrillers, Joyce Carol Oates burnishes her reputation with this sensational page-turner, a BOMC selection in cloth, which follows a well-meaning lawyer who toils to release an accused murderer/self-professed sculptor from death row. (June)