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Branching plots and dark humor animate “Eye of the Monkey,” set in an unnamed dystopian country.

In her perceptive cultural history, “Eyeliner,” Zahra Hankir shows that liquid versus pencil is only the beginning.

Louise Hegarty’s novel, “Fair Play,” nods to classic 1920s detective fiction, with a twist.

Leigh Claire La Berge’s memoir looks back at her stint as a consultant for a Fortune 500 company at the turn of the millennium: “Is this how companies are put together?”

Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket” focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world.

“False War,” by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, follows the Cuban diaspora around the world.

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

Jonathan Raban’s “Father and Son” is a memoir of illness and recovery paired with a parental history.

“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.