Jo Nesbo takes the word “thriller” very seriously. His books are indeed thrillers, in every sense of the word.

                  At the Ann and Jerry Moss Theater at New Roads School, 3131 W. Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. Immediately west of Centinela. Free Parking. Tickets, $25. Edwidge Danticat was informing us through her literature about Haiti since the release of her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory. That was about a dozen years before the recent hurricane leveled the country. Oprah’s Book Club put her on the map as a singular voice in literature about the elation, despair and longing…