•■■■ •111, j woman, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who chooses exile in Paris; it's a story of romance and love and healing, set against Parisian immigrant neigh- borhoods. The author is an American living in Toronto. • The Sabbathday River by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a thriller set in a small New Hampshire town where Naomi Roth, a New York Jewish transplant, has direct- ed her idealism. When Roth finds a dead infant in a river, she gets involved in the legal case, along with a fellow Jewish New Yorker; it is a case full of secrets, disturbing facts and many twists. • Woman of the Cloth by Roger Herbst (Shengold), a former congregational rabbi who also has worked as a professor of history and writer for television, is a mystery in which the leading character is a woman rabbi. She gets caught up in a power struggle and sex scan- dal involving leaders of her congregation. With sleuthing powers reminiscent of the late Harry Kemelman's Rabbi Small (Sunday the Rabbi ...), Rabbi Gabby Lewyn helps solve mysteries about her congregants and her rabbinic predecessor. The author is now working on a sequel. Novels: Paperback • Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton (Berkley), a winner of the Koret Foundation Book Award, is about an aging noted writer and the young graduate student who wishes to write her thesis about his work; it's a compelling and funny portrait of the literary life, set on the Upper West Side of New.York. Included in this edition is reading group material. • The Eleanor Roosevelt Girls by Bonnie Bluh (Lyre Bird) is a novel of women's GOOD READS on page 102 xl- Pctordinary. `Jupiter's Bones' Faye Kellerman's fans — and they are legion — will be happy to know that Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are back. That is made abundant- ly clear on the cover of Kellerman's new book, Jupiter's- Bones (William Morrow; $25), where, in a large circle with large type, it is duly noted. Perhaps that notation is necessary because in Kellerman's last book, Moon Music, she strayed from the antics of the tried-and-true couple (now in their 11th adventure together), and many of her fans were disappointed. This time, however, there is much to cheer about. Kellerman seems to have re-energized herself in a story that deals with cults, astro- physics, the Orthodox Jewish family lifestyle and characters who are both real and far out — an.interesting mix told in a story that keeps the reader on the edge of his seat. When Dr. Emil Euler Ganz, a preeminent astrophysicist with a reputation for brilliance, disappears from academia, rumors abound. No one — not his family, his friends or his col- leagues — knows what happened to him. >,,TW VUITS:SELINC When Ganz reap- pears 10 years later as Father Jupiter, leader of the Order of the Rings of God, a pseudoscien- tific cult, gossip and conjecture about his sanity abounds. And when Father Jupiter dies suddenly, speculation arises once again — this time as to whether his death is an accident, a suicide or a homicide. Father Jupiter's demise brings about ques- tions for Peter Decker and Decker's Los Angeles Police Department buddies. The cult resents the police department's intrusion, and becomes openly hostile when Father Jupiter's attendants discover that two cult members, including a child, are missing. They think the LAPD has masterminded the disappearance in order to infiltrate the cult, and begin to do everything in their power to discourage the investigation. The situation becomes threatening and ugly — with visions of Waco and Jonestown in mind. Kellerman mixes gritty detail with everyday life in a way that keeps the reader turning the pages. The plot varies between the gory details of homicides and murders to the pain of a teenager trying to come CO terms with the con- flicts he has about his religious lifestyle and the constraints he sometimes feels attending an Orthodox Jewish day school. Some storylines are tied up better than oth- ers, but despite this minor flaw, Jupiter's Bones is a welcome late slimmer read for Faye Kellerman's followers and new fans, as well. BONES — Reviewed by Beverly M. Mindlin 175 M_ERRILL STREET BIRMINGHAM, MI 248-644-6506 FAX 248-644-3632 Complimentary Valet Parking Available at the Townsend Hotel Entrance for our Bakery Customers Exclusively! E• YARD BAR_B Till . 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