Mary Anne Kelly's fictional Irish-Polish housewife Claire Breslinski returns in Kelly's new novel of Queens, New York "The Cordelia Squad." Claire has divorced her cheating husband and moved back to Queens. "She'd cried for months, really," Kelly writes. "Cried when people came to look at the house. Cried at the closing. Cried at the lawyer's when she'd filed for divorce. Cried, especially, when the children tried to be kind. Well, it was over. She wasn't crying anymore." Claire purchases a stylish old home and converts it to a bed-and-breakfast. A suspicious fire, however, destroys a section of the house, nearly endangering her life. Arson is suspected. A romantically-inclined firefighter and a contractor of questionable repute spice up the proceedings. Part mystery, part social novel, Kelly scores again with Breslinski, and the quirks and idiosyncrasies of life in Queens. ($24.95 / 336 pages / Thomas Dunne Books-St. Martin's)