A wildly enjoyable forgotten Nineties art-history thriller, a fantastic new cop thriller set in ’70s New Jersey, and extra

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And now, for this week’s round-up, I’ve received:

• A terrific new police procedural thriller a couple of younger cop on a double murder in an evocatively depicted Nineteen Seventies New Jersey;

• suggestions for extra books on Late Antiquity, plus essays, columns, weblog posts, and articles about A.I. prices, central-bank independence;

• an enthralling, romp-y, Nineties thriller a couple of hidden message in a Renaissance portray set in Barcelona; and

• 4 tracks I’ve been listening to rather a lot.

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Now, the roundup: