New books - August 11, '04

New this week: from Bellingham, Wash. author Michael Collins, Lost Souls is a great psychological thriller and Microsoft Rebooted, as told by bestselling author Robert Slater.

Weâ??ve got a couple northwest authors on the bestsellers list here this week: Day of the Dead, by J. A. Jance and Pyro by Earl Emerson. Meanwhile, D.B., a fictionalized account of the aftermath of the D.B Cooper hijacking, received a good review in the New York Times Review of Books on August 8.

I've just finished reading Pyro. It's a fascinating fictional look at the search for a serial arsonist who returns to Seattle after 25 years' absence. The books is told from several viewpoints, including those of the arsonist.