Shadow of Night News

Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum - Nice, bleak Scandinavian murder mystery. Good antidote to the usual romance-oriented genre reading I usually do.

Deborah Harkness' "Shadow of Night," a sequel to her best-selling "A Discovery of Witches," pretty much defines excellence in the literary subgenre of fluff.

Trudi JacobsonA is Distinguished Librarian and Head of the Information Literacy Department at the University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, New York .

3."A Hologram for the King," by Dave Eggers A desperate middle-age businessman has one last chance at redemption.

Writer Deborah Harkness tells Stephen Jewell how her tales of witchery and blood-sucking evolved from her role as a university historian.