Forbidden City by Alex Archer (2007) Gold Eagle 

Annja Creed, archaeologist, working on a dig in California, uncovers evidence of a tragedy that leads her back to China looking for lost city.

Worth Dying For - Lee Child (2010) Delacorte Press 

Reacher walks into a town in Nebraska and a mystery about the disappearance of a child decades in the past.  Then someone tries to push him out of town to cover-up the drug shipment they’re expecting.  This is not a wise way to deal with Reacher.

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (2010) Ace 

Mercy Thompson is a walker who can turn into a coyote.  She was raised in a werewolf pack.  Her boss at the car-repair shop is a very old elf.  Some clients are also of the supernatural types; vampires, werewolves, gremlins.  This is her normal world.  Then someone gets killed – at work, and all things fae break loose.

Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich (2016) Bantam

Stephanie Plum, part-time bounty hunter, is after a skip who stole a truck full of ice-cream and a dead body.  She goes undercover at the ice-cream factory for a P.I., Ranger, whom she has strayed with, while trying to make a go with her boyfriend, Morellli, a cop.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (2014) Atria Books

A curmudgeon is retired from his job at the railroad.  His wife was disabled and has died.  He has no reason to go on, though he’s not very good at ending his own life.  Every attempt gets interrupted by his new incompetent neighbors and the man he’s had a long-standing feud with is no longer able to talk, much less do anything.

This is a story about how people need other people.  How life is enriched by family,, including the people around you who don’t have your experience or tenacity.

 Glory in Death by J.D. Robb (2009) Thorndike Press

Suspect everyone, even your lover.  Two very successful women are murdered and they seem to be tied to a lot of rich men, including Roarke.