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Jacqueline Winspear is retiring Maisie Dobbs, and Susan Elia MacNeal bids farewell to Maggie Hope.

The days are long, but this summer’s bounty of historical fiction will remind you that the years are short.

New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.

Our columnist reviews this month’s latest scary releases.

Our crime columnist on mysteries by Catherine Mack, Katrina Carrasco, Marcia Muller and K.C. Constantine.

Our columnist on three new psychological thrillers.

Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices.

His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.”

Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.

This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.