Fiction
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.