Required reading

By BILLY HELLER

Last Updated: 12:44 AM, January 22, 2012

Posted: 10:59 PM, December 3, 2011

Extra Virginity

The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

by Tom Mueller (Norton)

Forget the oil crisis — there’s an olive-oil crisis. Expanding on his eye-opening New Yorker article on the subject, Mueller — who lives in an Italian farmhouse surrounded by olive groves — delves into the billion-dollar industry and lets us in on a dirty secret: That extra-virgin olive oil you’re paying extra for at your local supermarket may not be what it says it is. Mueller explains the liquid’s place in history and introduces readers to a cast of characters, ranging from artisan producers to scientists, olive-oil sommeliers to corporate fraudsters and Mafia gangsters. Even Jesus gets a mention.

Vigilante

A Shane Scully Novel

by Stephen J. Cannell (St. Martin’s)

Cannell, who died last year, was nothing if not prolific. The creator or co-creator of hit TV series including “The A-Team” and “21 Jump Street” also wrote 18 books. In this last of his popular series on LA cop Shane Scully, Cannell brings reality TV into the mix. Scully and his partner Sumner Hitchens are called on the case when LAPD critic and activist Lita Mendez is murdered. Did cops kill her? To make matters more difficult, self-promoting reality TV host Nash Nixon, no pal of police, wants to solve the killing for his “Vigilante TV” show before Scully does.

Trust Me

by George Kennedy (Applause)

This is no bed-hopping Hollywood tell-all memoir. Instead the Oscar-winning actor (for “Cool Hand Luke”) has written a conversational, matter-of-fact look back at his life. The New York native’s father died when he was 4 — the year the Depression hit. It was a hard life for Kennedy and his mom, sometimes sleeping in doorways or cars, often beaten by a woman who took them in. In the Army Air Corps in WWII, he was a media liaison for the Pentagon — which led to Hollywood. Anecdotes feature Elvis Presley, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra.

Nairobi Heat

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Melville House)

If you’re weary of the glut of Scandinavian crime fiction, take a trip to Kenya’s teeming capital city for a murder mystery. The action, though, begins in Wisconsin, where the body of a young woman is found on the doorstep of an African activist who saved hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocide and is now a respected university professor. The local cop on the case gets a mysterious call telling him the truth is in Nairobi.

Rights Gone Wrong

How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality

by Richard Thompson Ford (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Three years after his provocative book “The Race Card,” Stanford Law School professor Ford is back with more discussions that challenge our assumptions about prejudice and the law. Ford argues that cries of “discrimination” have become so common that they have become meaningless — which unfortunately undermines legitimate examples of social injustice. His musings are a welcome call for common sense in a lawsuit-mad world.
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