Elinor Mason has written a short, absorbing book on blameworthiness and responsibility. It is deeply engaged with the current literature, but not in a way that detracts from the overall story Mason has to tell. What's more important, the book seems to get things roughly right — that is, it seems to describe what we do when we blame people: no small feat for a practice so messy and complicated as blaming.
Elinor Mason is Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She works on a wide range of issues in ethics, moral responsibility, and feminist philosophy.