Houston Chronicle Sunday

Fiction

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1. 16th Seduction: By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club face their toughest case yet.

2. Into the Water: By Paula Hawkins. In this psychologi­cal thriller by the author of “The Girl on the Train,” women are found drowned in a river in an English town.

3. Against All Odds: By Danielle Steel. A mother must learn to let her adult children make their own decisions.

4. The Fix: By David Baldacci. Detective Amos Decker (“Memory Man”) witnesses a murder-suicide that turns out to be a matter of national security.

5. By GoldenJohn Sandford.Prey: Lucas Davenport, now a U.S. Marshal, pursues a thief who robbed a drug cartel and killed a child in Biloxi, Miss.

6. The Broken Record: By Richard Paul Evans. A successful man who is questionin­g his life gets a second chance. The first book in a trilogy.

7. The Black Book: By James Patterson and David Ellis. After a raid on a brothel that serviced Chicago’s elite, the madam’s black book has disappeare­d.

8. Anything is Possible: By Elizabeth Strout. A novel-in-stories about the lives of the inhabitant­s of the rural Illinois hometown of Lucy Barton, the protagonis­t of Strout’s previous novel.

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

10. Beartown: By Fredrik Backman. A hockey star is caught up in a scandal.

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