.The Turtleburger Ban

This month's treats inspect nature through high-powered lenses and crystal meth through a crystal ball.

A maniac is ripping the tongues out of priests in Vatican City — with pliers — in God’s Spy (Dutton, $24.95), Juan Gómez-Jurado’s grisly thriller featuring a terse female sleuth. … Travel by freighter, don’t flush condoms, and protect endangered species by “refusing turtle meat and turtle products if they’re ever offered to you,” warns Joanna Yarrow in 1,001 Ways to Save the Earth (Chronicle, $9.95). … At nineteen, James Salant spent much of his time shooting crystal meth into his neck in a trailer park. Written three years later, Leaving Dirty Jersey (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $21) is his irresistible memoir. … A polar bear attacking a walrus, a bioluminescent sea-spider whose gonads are in its legs, a Japanese giant salamander six feet long and possibly eighty years old: Cutting-edge aerial photography captures nature in Alastair Fothergill’s Planet Earth (University of California, $39.95). … She drove her car headlong into a wall but says she wasn’t trying to kill herself. Awaking with amnesia in a mental hospital, a photographer who happens to also be an heiress tries to discover who murdered her best friend and ex-boyfriend, and wonders why everyone thinks she did it in Minette Walters’ moody mystery The Dark Room (Black Lizard, $12.95).

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