Forever and Five Days

Lowell Cauffiel. Zebra, $4.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8217-4213-6

Cauffiel makes an auspicious debut in the true-crime genre with this sensitive and searching story of the murders of nursing home patients by aides at a home in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1987. Photos. (July)

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