Five great books! — what a perfect time to be reader of gritty crime novels. “Bolero: A Nick Sayler Novel,” by Joanie McDonell (Thomas & Mercer, $14.95, 406 pages, paperback). McDonell’s ...

Peter Clines writes about scary, terrifying Ex-es. Not the kind of exes who can't accept that the romance is over but the kind of Exes who can't accept that their mortal lives are over.