
Angie Blackburn
"Midsommar " is a waking nightmare and I mean that in the best possible way.
CONVICTION: By Denise Mina. Mulholland/Little, Brown. 374 pages. $27.
THE PORPOISE: By Mark Haddon. Doubleday. 320 pages. $27.95.
LEAVING THE WITNESS: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life. By Amber Scorah. Viking. 288 pages. $28.
THE ELECTRIC HOTEL. By Dominic Smith. Sarah Crichton. 352 pages. $27.
THIS STORM: By James Ellroy. Knopf. 608 pages. $29.95.
SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE: By Jean Kwok. William Morrow. 314 pages. $26.99.
DANTE AND THE EARLY ASTRONOMER: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens. By Tracy Daugherty. Yale. 214 pages. $26,
Whatever you say about Dexter Fletcher's glossy, glittering Elton John blinged-out biopic "Rocketman," a shiny sequin of a movie, it doesn't l…