Clare Conville, Liz Hoggard, and Sara-Jane Lovett. Grove, $20 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2018-2
Conville, Hoggard, and Lovett cover every imaginable topic in this hilarious and helpful guide to modern womanhood. Alphabetized for easy reference, the authors address the expected subjects—babies and finances among them—but also provide good...
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Despite a derivative and formulaic plot about a terrorist intent on blowing up Los Angeles, forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange's fourth outing (after 1998's A Desperate Silence) should keep suspense fans turning the pages. Strange...
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Sarah Lovett, Author Avalon Travel Publishing $9.95 (47p) ISBN 978-1-56261-042-5
This dense pop-culture encyclopedia shoulders a serious mission: a call to arms on behalf of endangered species. Large stock photos mixed with cartoony color sketches join the thick, black type to create high impact that will appeal to middle-grade...
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Sarah Lovett, Author Villard Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43560-0
Her name notwithstanding, Sylvia Strange is a fairly normal forensic psychologist; here, as in her debut (Dangerous Attachments), it is the world around her that is strange and disturbingly violent. After Sylvia's court testimony helps let sadistic...
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Sarah Lovett, Author Villard Books $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-43561-7
Lovett's third Sylvia Strange thriller (Dangerous Attachments; Acquired Motives) plays cleverly on the vampire theme, using vampirism as a metaphor for the parasitic search for self-gratification. A 10-year-old girl named Serena is the only person...
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Sarah Lovett, Author, Mary Sundstrom, Illustrator, Sally Blakemore, Illustrator Avalon Travel Publishing $9.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-56261-018-0
Describing the extremes among reptiles and primates is not just a titillating device in these new Extremely Weird titles, but a way of defining the parameters of a class or order as a whole. The varieties of reptile camouflage, for example, are...
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Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15820-9
Aided by Lovett (Dark Alchemy), former CIA agent Plame (Fair Game with Laura Rozen) makes her fiction debut with an able contemporary thriller centered on Iranian nukes. Plame’s fictional alter ego, Vanessa Pierson, is waiting in a Vienna amusement...
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Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15821-6
An overly familiar story line mars Plame and Lovett’s second novel featuring CIA agent Vanessa Pierson. Vanessa, who works for the CIA’s counterproliferation division, has an appointment to meet an asset, Farid, outside the Louvre in Paris. Farid...
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