Houston Chronicle Sunday

Fiction

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1. Right Behind You: By Lisa Gardner. Former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his partner, Rainie Conner, foster a girl whose older brother murdered their drunken father. Now, eight years later, he has killed again.

2. Never Never: By James Patterson and Candice Fox. Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the Outback (the never never) to investigat­e the disappeara­nce of a mine worker. The first in a series.

3. The Girl Before: By J.P. Delaney. A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its (young, female) inhabitant­s in this psychologi­cal thriller, soon to be a major motion picture.

4. The Undergroun­d Railroad: By Colson Whitehead. A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.

5. The Whistler: By John Grisham. A whistleblo­wer alerts a Florida investigat­or to judicial corruption involving the mob and Indian casinos.

6. Two by Two:

By Nicholas Sparks. A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.

7. Small Great Things: By Jodi Picoult. A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white-supremacis­t father and a white lawyer.

8. The Prisoner: By Alex Berenson. In the 11th John Wells novel, the former CIA agent goes undercover as a jihadi in order to investigat­e a suspected mole.

9. The Mistress: By Danielle Steel. The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch yearns for freedom.

10. A Gentleman in Moscow: By Amor Towles. A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.

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