New in Paperback: ‘Caul Baby’ and ‘While Justice Sleeps’

WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS, by Stacey Abrams. (Anchor, 480 pp., $17.) On this authorized thriller, a younger regulation clerk catches a whiff of a harmful conspiracy in Washington after the Supreme Court docket justice she works for slips right into a coma. “These desirous of perils and surprises will encounter them in abundance,” commented our reviewer, Richard North Patterson.

WE OWN THIS CITY: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, by Justin Fenton. (Random Home, 352 pp., $18.99.) A Baltimore-based investigative reporter traces the rise and fall of the town’s Gun Hint Process Drive, a bunch of officers who spent years robbing drug sellers, promoting narcotics, planting proof and defrauding taxpayers. As our reviewer, Maurice Chammah, put it, Fenton “exhibits how, in our zeal to fight crime, now we have allowed establishments to provide it.”

CAUL BABY, by Morgan Jerkins. (Harper Perennial, 352 pp., $16.99.) This debut novel follows the ladies of a Harlem household that stays afloat by promoting their “caul,” their magical, restorative pores and skin, to the clientele of their gentrifying neighborhood. As our reviewer, Jamie Figueroa, famous, Jerkins excels in “conveying the life-giving and life-sustaining energy of Black ladies’s our bodies, and the blood relationships between them.”

A WORLD ON THE WING: The International Odyssey of Migratory Birds, by Scott Weidensaul. (Norton, 416 pp., $18.95.) A famend naturalist breaks down the world of avian migration and particulars the battle to protect world migratory patterns within the face of local weather change. Based on our reviewer, Christian Cooper, the success of Weidensaul’s account “rivals the astonishing feats of the birds he chronicles.”