THE GAUNT WOMAN — Edmund GilIlgan—Scribner ($2.50). Broad-beamed, baric Edmund Gilligan (White Sails Crowding) knows a lot about sailing vessels, good violent storytelling, and wild Irish prose.

Police closed access to the Gaunt Shopping Centre, Blackstock Road, Gleadless Valley, after the discovery of a woman’s body early that morning. The body of a woman was sadly found outside Gaunt ...