Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his family reduced to living in cramped quarters above ...

2. THE HAMPTONS LAWYER, by James Patterson and Mike Lupica. (Little, Brown) The third book in the Jane Smith thriller series.

It is hard to describe the wonderfully disorienting sensation of entering a Marcy Dermansky novel. Having read all six of her ...