May 8, 2021 Richard Lipez THE WASHINGTON POST – Escape to California, Lebanon, Connecticut, Provence and not-so-merry England in these five first-rate new mysteries and thrillers. Sure, readers will find plenty of danger, intrigue and suspense in these pages, but it’s all at a comfortably safe distance. THE ANATOMY OF DESIRE BY LR DORN Among the career possibilities my high school guidance counselor never mentioned to me some years back was “social media influencer.” This peculiar phenomenon is at the centre of LR Dorn’s spicy update of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 classic, An American Tragedy. In the original, social-climbing Clyde Griffiths is accused of drowning his pregnant girlfriend so he can marry a socialite.