Still Foolin’ ’Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?, by Billy Crystal (Henry Holt), reads more like an extended standup comedy riff than a series of memories from a stalwart comic icon. Throughout the book, Crystal mines his unique sense of observational humor to ruminate over his own life. Whether he is cracking wise about Christianity and old age, or looking back on the trajectory of his career from comic to the star of When Harry Met Sally, Crystal imparts a sort of wisdom that is both honest and hilarious.

Mistress, by James Patterson and David Ellis (Little, Brown), is a gripping psychological thril ler that unravels one man’s quest to solve a murder. The catch is the victim happens to be the woman with whom protagonist Ben has had an unhealthy obsession. Patterson and Ellis sift through Ben’s mental baggage, which includes paranoid leaping to conclusions and spiraling obsessive thoughts, as the chapters in this page turner fl y by. A raft of inexplicable evidence—a cabinet fi lled with pills, a collection of sex toys, a DC lobbyist—leads Ben toward the inevitable conclusion that the woman he had loved so passionately and furtively may have been involved in some nefarious games. Can Ben control his own mind and uncover the truth?

Waging Heavy Peace, by Neil Young (Blue Rider Press), sits the reader next to the man who wrote countless folk-rock classics as he fi nally tells the epic poem of his own life. The tone is informal, and less about molding a legacy like other rockers who look over their careers and more like a grandfather telling stories about his wild life. Even though none of us have jammed with Joni Mitchell or written songs with Stephen Stills or partied with the who’s who of celebrities, we can still relate to Young’s journey and his attempts to navigate and understand the most important relationships in his life. This book is one of the most honest and least grandstanding musician memoirs to hit shelves in recent history.

Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, by Mara Leveritt (Atria Books), meticulously documents the events surrounding the sickening murder of three young boys and the subsequent perversion of justice that landed three older boys in jail for 18 years for crimes they likely did not commit. Leaving no stone unturned, Leveritt’s account draws from police reports, forensic evidence, court documents, and hours upon hours of interviews. She brazenly challenges the convictions, which she contends were based on ham-fi sted attempts to coerce a confession and an almost pathological obsession with the alleged murderers’ engagement in “occult” activities. All the while, the author paints vivid portraits of the major actors, from overburdened police to zealous probation offi cers to a sensitive and mentally ill Damien Echols, the supposed ringleader of the West Memphis Three.