Just finished this book, which is, interestingly, written as a play: Dooku: Jedi Lost (Cavan Scott, 2019). I don't think I have read a Star Wars play before. Practically speaking, plays are almost 100% dialog- Scott uses different narrators at various points to expand on the short scene setting notes and whatnot. Broadly speaking, in was interesting to see some of Dooku's history back at the Jedi temple, eventually becoming Yoda's padawan.
A major character in these proceedings is the force sensitive not-quite-failed-Jedi-nor-Sith assassin Asajj Ventress. She acts as the most frequent narrator throughout the proceedings. We follow her story as she becomes enthralled to the fallen Count Dooku.
We also get a bit of backstory (new to me, at least) about the mysterious name "Sifo Diyas", a Jedi called Dooku's oldest friend. I am still not clear on exactly how this old friend's name became involved with the cloners of Kamino to the point that they mis-identify Obi-wan Kenobi as Count Dooku's oldest friend. Context clues within this story suggest that Sifo Diyas was not in any shape to actually participate in the Clone Wars- there is probably some more info out there about this aspect of the broader story, but I haven't run across it as of yet.
All in all, I thought this book was decent. Fairly low key, low stakes backstory development. Good characterizations: Dooku, Yoda, Ventress, and others all sounded and acted "right".
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