Maren Longbella

Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Breathing Lessons," looks at the before and after of a wedding in Baltimore-set "Three Days in June."

Nicholas Bowling, who wrote "In the Shadow of Heroes" for children, crafts a "spellbinding" take on "The Secret Garden" as Nick Newman with "The Garden," in which a strangers threatens two sisters' lives.

Holly Brickley's "Deep Cuts" dives into the music of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Hall and Oates and others as it explores the collaboration and possible romance of two music fans.

"The Jackal's Mistress," by "The Flight Attendant" writer Chris Bohjalian, is a romantic thriller about a Confederate woman who takes in a wounded Union soldier.

The latest from "With Teeth" and "Mostly Dead Things" writer Kristen Arnett is novel "Stop Me If You've Heard This One," about a woman studying to be a clown.

Fiction: “I See You’ve Called in Dead” is a comic novel about tragic events.

Fiction: Unfortunately, the “Mr. Mercedes” investigator is not in peak form this time out.

Fiction: “The River Is Waiting” is a conventional white-dude-goes-to-prison book with the expected plot points.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of "Mexican Gothic" and "Silver Nitrate," is stingy with the fear factor in overly complicated "The Bewitching."

Nonfiction: “The Martians” is an entertaining look at how we view the red planet has changed over the years.