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In his enthralling “The Spy in the Archive,” Gordon Corera tells the story of an unlikely hero embedded within the heart of the agency.

“The Stolen Coast,” by Dwyer Murphy, is a heist novel involving rough diamonds, crooked lawyers and masters of the double cross.

True to the promise of its title, “The Storm We Made” kicks up a weather system of epic proportions, ranging from military terror during World War II to domestic warmth.

In Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, “The Strange Case of Jane O.,” a patient’s unusual symptoms suggest metaphysical mysteries.

In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.

Ariel Dorfman’s novel “The Suicide Museum” uses the controversy around a president’s death to examine personal and collective grief.

Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?

A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.

Two exuberant new books chronicle the heyday of New York City’s criminal underworld on the Lower East Side.

In “The Ten Year Affair,” the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother’s infidelity.