This Sunday in YOU, get a review of two mysteries by Rita Mae Brown.

Hounded to Death (Ballantine Books/Random House/304 pages/$25) is a tidy, parlor-style mystery that will please fans of the Sister Jane Arnold series. But newcomers looking for the grittier, bloodier sort of detective styling will be disappointed.

The Sand Castle (Grove Press/Atlantic/112 pages/$18.95) has all the components of earlier Husenmeir books, but in miniature. Tales within the story are sad and sweet, but as told through the eyes of a 7-year-old often seem too precocious. Even Husenmeir fans may find it lacks depth and heft.

There are also capsule reviews of Tonight at Six by Michael Olesker, Jealous Witness, poems by Andrei Codrescu, and Mary Elizabeth Garrett by Kathleen Waters Sander.