Explosive question, eh? In his new book. The Resurrection, Geza Vermes tackles the 2,000-year-old event as told in the Bible and decides that the story is much more complicated than presented in the New Testament. Vermes, a biblical scholar, uses accounts in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He also compares stories of the Resurrection as explained in the Synoptics, the Gospel of John, Acts and the Pauline epistles, and then analyses the differences and the possible reasons for these differences. Frankly, this looks like a dream book for those interested in Biblical studies.

In fiction, there’s Black Olives, the new book from Martha Tod Dudman, author of the memoir, Augusta, Gone. The novel centers on a middle-aged woman who begins spying on her ex-boyfriend. And in Light of the Moon, author Luanne Rice (who has sold over 18 million copies of her novels) offers a story set in the French Camargue, where an American women goes in search of her family roots. Of course, she finds….oh you know what she finds.