Jim Butcher, Cross Fury. Genre is fantasy. Third in a series about someone who can't do magic in a world where everyone else can. Good read, realistic charactors, but the bad guys are somewhat one dimensional. He mostly writes about a magical detective. This is the Dresden Files series. Not bad but not worth buying. Get it from the local library.
John Edwards, Home: the Blueprints of Our Lives. Nonfiction, edited stories about childhood homes of people. No blueprints either, just stories and pictures. Couldn't even get into it. Back it goes.
PT Duetermann, Scorpion in The Sea. Did I say before it's a great read? It's going back since it's a library book. Good techno-thriller sea story, written by a guy who knows his stuff unlike other techno-ignorant thriller writers.
Harry Turtledove Settling Accounts: The Grapple. Alternate history in which the South never fell. WW2 and the Confederacy is emulating Nazi Germany, complete with the Final Solution. General Patton's in here too with the soldier slapping incident. The first one he did was good. This series is getting tired and the South has risen enough. Read like a trainwreck. It's bad but you don't want to stop.
Melanie Rawn, Kate Robertson, and Kate Elliott, The Golden Key. Fantasy, about a society where everything legal is recorded by art. Surprisingly good even with the usual fantasy placeholders. Also very reminescent of the Rennaissance and the great Italian families such as the Medici and the Borgias.
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