BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

1. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens. In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survives alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

2. THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett. The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity.

3. 1ST CASE by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. After getting kicked out of MIT, Angela Hoot interns with the FBI and tracks the murderous siblings known as the Poet and the Engineer.

4. THE ORDER by Daniel Silva. The 20th book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family’s vacation short to investigate whether Pope Paul VII was murdered.

5. THE GUEST LIST by Lucy Foley. A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.

6. NEAR DARK by Brad Thor. The 19th book in the Scot Harvath series. With a bounty on his head, Harvath makes an alliance with a Norwegian intelligence operative.

7. SUCKER PUNCH by Laurell K. Hamilton. The 27th book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. The evidence that a wereleopard killed his uncle doesn’t add up.

8. 28 SUMMERS by Elin Hilderbrand. A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.

9. HARROW THE NINTH by Tamsyn Muir. The second book of the Locked Tomb trilogy. Harrowhark Nonagesimus must overcome her failing health to become an angel of undeath.

10. THE SILENT WIFE by Karin Slaughter. The 10th book in the Will Trent series. Investigations of two crimes force Trent to call on his girlfriend’s expertise as a medical examiner.