Houston Chronicle Sunday

Fiction

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1. The Rooster Bar:

By John Grisham. Three students at a sleazy forprofit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.

2. Origin:

By Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

3. Deep Freeze:

By John Sandford. Virgil Flowers is called to investigat­e in Trippton, Minn., when a local bank’s president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.

4. Sleeping Beauties:

By Stephen King and Owen King. Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one

5. Uncommon Type:

By Tom Hanks. Seventeen short stories, each incorporat­ing a typewriter, by the Academy Award-winning actor.

6. A Column of Fire:

By Ken Follett. A pair of lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.

7. Quick & Dirty:

By Stuart Woods. New York lawyer Stone Barrington is hired to recover a stolen Van Gogh painting.

8. Fairytale:

By Danielle Steel. Tragedy and unexpected dangers come to life at a Napa Valley winery.

9. Strange Weather:

By Joe Hill. A quartet of novellas involving the horrific and the supernatur­al.

10. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye:

By David Lagercrant­z. Stieg Larsson’s character Lisbeth Salander seeks to uncover the secrets of her childhood.

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