Fiction
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.