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Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog.
Jackson Brodie is hired by an Australian woman to locate her birth parents in England but can find no trace of them. Meanwhile, a retired cop who worked on a troubling case involving a child years ago makes an impulsive decision when she sees a child being abused.

Linwood Barclay, The Accident.
A man refuses to believe that his wife was drunk and responsible for a car accident that killed her and two other people.  

Louis Bayard, The School of Night.
A modern-day Elizabethan scholar becomes executor of the estate of his friend, who apparently killed himself, and is contacted about a missing letter among the papers that may hold the key to a 16th century secret society known as the School of Night.

Alafair Burke, Long Gone.
An unemployed woman accepts an offer to manage an art gallery, but when she turns up to find the gallery empty, her boss dead, and herself a suspect, she realizes she’s been set up.

Linda Castillo, Breaking Silence.
Police Chief Kate Burkholder—who was raised Amish—tries to determine whether three deaths on a farm are linked to a series of escalating hate crimes in the Amish community.

Lee Child, The Affair.
In 1997, Major Jack Reacher of the Military Police is sent undercover to investigate a murder near an army base that turns out to be connected to other deaths, in a case that causes Reacher to leave the army and pursue justice on his own.

Edward Conlon, Red on Red.
Two NYPD detective with differing outlooks become partners and work on cases including the apparent suicide of a recently arrived Mexican immigrant woman, gangland slayings by rival drug dealers, and a serial rapist.

Charles Cumming, The Trinity Six.
A scholar of Russian history is intrigued when a friend tells him the notorious Cambridge Five KGB cell had a sixth member—and then finds himself in danger after his friend turns up dead.

P.T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory.
Three roommates at Annapolis Naval Academy and the woman they all love take different paths and are caught up in World War II in the Pacific.

Robert Dugoni, Murder One.
David Sloane gets romantically involved with a fellow attorney and agrees to defend her when she’s accused of killing a Russian gangster who allegedly supplied the drugs that caused her daughter to die of an overdose.

Joseph Finder, Buried Secrets.
An intelligence expert tries to find a teenage girl who’s been buried alive with video of her captivity streamed on the Internet, and he discovers that the girl’s wealthy father is hiding dangerous secrets.

Lisa Gardner, Love You More.
Detective Warren investigates when a state trooper claims to have killed her husband in self-defense but cannot say what happened to her missing daughter.

Tess Gerritsen, The Silent Girl.
A hand found on the street in Boston’s Chinatown leads to a body on the roof of a restaurant where a massacre was allegedly committed by a cook 19 years earlier, sending Rizzoli and Isles on a hunt for the link between the crimes.

James Grippando, Afraid of the Dark.
Working on the pro bono case of an accused terrorist at Guantanamo Bay, Jack Swyteck learns that his client is also suspected of murdering of his girlfriend and blowing up her house to destroy the evidence.

Andrew Gross, Eyes Wide Open.
A man tries to help his brother and sister-in-law after the apparent suicide of their troubled son and discovers a link to his brother’s involvement with a cult leader imprisoned 30 years ago for a series of gruesome murders.

Heather Gudenkauf, These Things Hidden.
Imprisoned as a teen, a woman is released after five years and is shunned by her family and townspeople, but a child holds the key to the truth about what really happened.

John Hart, Iron House.
Two brothers raised in a grim orphanage take different paths as one is adopted and becomes an author while the other flees after a boy is murdered and is taken in by a notorious mobster.

Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X.
A math teacher helps his neighbor cover up the death of her abusive ex-husband, whose attempt to extort money from her turned into a violent confrontation.

Gregg Hurwitz, You’re Next.
A man who was abandoned as a child finds himself and his wife and child threatened by shadowy figures from his past, and he turns for help to a dangerous man he met while in foster care.

David Ignatius, Bloodmoney.
A CIA agent investigates the deaths of several operatives in Pakistan who were unsuccessfully attempting to control terrorist cells by offering them bribes.

Stephen King, 11/22/63.
A high school English teacher is convinced by a dying friend to use a time portal to change history by preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Michael Koryta, The Cypress House.
A man who can foresee death flees from a train doomed by a hurricane with another passenger and ends up at a boarding house run by a woman linked to a corrupt judge.

Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind.
A retired surgeon with dementia is suspected of killing her best friend, who is found with her fingers surgically removed, but she doesn’t remember what happened.

John Lescroart, Damage.
After a man accused of killing maids working for his wealthy and influential parents is released from prison on a technicality, people associated with his trial are murdered in eerily similar ways.

Rosamund Lupton, Sister.
Determined to prove that her sister Tess didn’t commit suicide, Beatrice takes over Tess’s apartment and job and tries to find out who killed her.

Deon Meyer, Trackers.
A freelance bodyguard agrees to save two black rhinos by smuggling them out of Zimbabwe, while a South African woman leaves her abusive husband and goes to work for a shadowy government organization.

George Pelecanos, The Cut.
An Iraq war vet working as an investigator for a defense attorney gets in over his head when he agrees to track down a drug dealer’s stolen marijuana shipment.

Thomas Perry, The Informant.
When a hitman who took revenge on the Mafia is tracked down by them, he seeks help from a Justice Department official by offering to give her information.

David Rosenfelt, On Borrowed Time.
A man’s fiancée vanishes from the scene of a car accident and afterwards her parents claim not to know who he is and his friends say they never met her.

Sebastian Rotella, Triple Crossing.
A rookie Border Patrol agent is recruited to infiltrate a Mexican crime family and he pursues a gangster to the lawless “Triple Border” region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.

John Sandford, Shock Wave.
Virgil Flowers races against time to stop a bomber who’s targeting a superstore planning to build an outlet in a Minnesota river town.

Peter Spiegelman, Thick as Thieves.
After the leader of a gang of thieves is killed in a possible setup, a former CIA agent recruited by him takes charge of the group as they plan an intricate heist.

Taylor Stevens, The Informationist.
A woman who was a gun-runner in Africa in her youth agrees to help find a girl who went missing after a safari.

Simon Toyne, Sanctus.
Intent on sending a message, a monk plummets to his death from a mountaintop where a secretive religious sect is hiding something within the walls of their Citadel.

S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep.
A woman wakes each morning with no memory as a result of a mysterious accident and begins to wonder who she can trust.

Amanda Kyle Williams, The Stranger You Seek.
An alcoholic former FBI profiler is given a second chance when the Atlanta police seek her help in tracking down an elusive serial killer.