The Atopia Chronicles by Matthew Mather (2014) 47North

Near the end of the century, man has ffound a way to split his mind and explore his imagination in a multiverse.  Atopia is an independent city state floating in the Pacific Ocean.  But someone is trying to destroy Atopia and everything it stands for.

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992) Bloomsbury

A modern classic of English literature - the 'patient' is a story about a Hungarian who helped the Germans in WWII.  A former cartographer, he fell in an ill-fated love affair with a colleague's wife and suffered burns over his whole body in an airplane crash.  The Bedouin transported him to a British hospital in Cairo and from there he was transferred north until he reached a field hospital in Italy in a Villa.  There we meet a nurse, a thief and a sapper.

Won the Booker Prize.

Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb (1997) Berkeley Books

Lieutenant Dallas finds herself at the focal point of a series of murders in retaliation for the deaths of six murderers from twenty years ago - deaths done in vengeance by her husband. 

Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton (2018) Harper 

A view of the times of Custer and Deadwood where the viewpoint character is a spoiled rich kid joining an archaeological expedition as a photographer and finds the teeth of a brontosaurus.

Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris (1998) Minotaur Books 

A little girl was stolen as an infant eight years ago.  Our heroine, the tough Ms. Bard goes home for her sister's wedding and finds her beau is checking into three girls the right age, including the daughter of her soon to be brother-in-law.

Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K Hamilton (2001) Berkley

Anita Blake returns to St Louis to find havoc has reigned while she was gone - she has to rescue her wereleopard pard, reassert herself as the werewolf pack Lupa and solve the disappearance of several alphas in the community.