Finders Keepers by Stephen King (2015) Scribner 

The second book in the Mr. Mercedes series.  Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney started a detective agency and named it Finders Keepers.  Now they have to help a boy who has stumbled upon the notebooks of a famous author that had been stolen and hidden by a dangerous killer.  And now the killer has been released.

The Language of Bees by Laurie R King (2009) Bantam 

Mary Russel and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have returned at last to their home in England.  There seems to be a problem with the beehives, which solution has to be put off in pursuit of a killer.

Beautiful Exiles by Meg Waite Clayton (2018) Lake Union Publishing 

Narrated by Martha Gelhorn, a war correspondent and the fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway.  It is so well written it inspires the reader to be a writer.

The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz (2018) Bantam 

Further adventures of Jane Hawk in her fight against the Arcadian conspiracy - wherein she captures the son of the 75-year-old woman who may be the top of the scheme and the Arcadians close in on Jane’s son.

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (2009) Ace 

Sookie’s friend, Lafayette is killed and placed in Andy Bellfleur's car - Sookie goes to Dallas to help the local head vampire find a lost friend.  He's been kidnapped by another vampire who wants to meet the dawn, and burn out of existence, Godric, and taken to the Fellowship of the Sun, a radical group that wants to rid the world of vampires.

Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer (2011) St. Martin’s Press 

A rambling story about a boy, Harry Clifton, born from an encounter that wasn’t intended.  His mother married another man a month after conception.  The man he has been told was his father ended-up trapped in the skin of a ship during construction.  His real father is the heir to a Lord.  The book is part of a seven volume chronicle, this first volume covers the time between World War I and World War II.

Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs (2016) Ace 

Mercy Thompson and the werewolf pack come to the rescue to rid the Tri-Cities of a Troll on a bridge and the rescue of Zee (a high elf), Tad and a fire touched boy.  This results in a public statement of protection from Mercy and an impending war with the fae.

Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews (2015) Scribner

Dominika, the red sparrow, after being returned to Russia, is placed under the worst possible member of counterintelligence.  She continues to work with the CIA.  When her boss tries to have her killed, twice, she survives, and provides information that gets the attention of Putin, to the blinding jealousy of her boss.  

Never Go Back by Lee Child (2013) Bantam 

Reacher goes to Washington - to see the Major who is running the 110th, but it turns out that something else is going on and Reacher finds himself and the Major under arrest

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (2014) Scribner

Bill Hodges, a retired detective is contacted by the mass murderer about his last case.  Only now, the killer plans on something much more elaborate and deadly.

Gabriel's Horn by Alex Archer (2008) Gold Eagle

Annja Creed is called to help on a dig for a rare artifact, one people are willing to kill for, even Roux - to get ahold of Gabriel's Horn and end the world

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz (2009) Del Rey 

Victor Frankenstein is still alive, 200 years later.  So is his first creation, who calls himself Deucalion, the son of Prometheus.  Frankenstein has never stopped creating artificial people, only now he has far more science available to use.

Hombre by Elmore Leonard (1961) Ballentine 

A man raised by the Apache is on his way with other locals when they are held-up by robbers for a corrupt Indian Agent's stolen money.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (2008) Ace 

First in the Stackhouse mysteries wherein Sookie must navigate her way through becoming enamored of vampires and her brother being accused of murdering their grandmother and a nest of vampires.

Tourist Trap by Julie Smith (1986) Mysterious Press 

Rebecca Schwartz, native San Franciscan and lawyer, must prove the innocence of a former cable car driver accused of multiple murders.

Spell Breaker by Connie Suttle (2018) SubtleDemon 

In the fourth volume of the First Ordinance series, our winged heroine,  must go without her wings back to her original way of being unobtrusive, by not speaking - making those around her think she cannot speak and revealing secrets that can save the universe.

Night Broken by Patricia Briggs (2014) Ace Books

Mercy Thompson, the walker who shifts into a coyote finds herself in a bind.  Her husband, the Alpha Wolf in a werewolf pack, gets an urgent call from his ex - she's being hunted by a man she dated and he is killing people trying to get to her.  Of course, he's not human.

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (2011) Ballentine

A billionaire who built a virtual world with free access has died without heirs.  His will states that the person who finds three keys and opens the portals associated will get his entire estate.

Brief Cases by Jim Butcher (2018) Ace 

The Dresden files - previously uncollected short stories - Bigfoot's son, and other character points of view.  Like reading a Dresden story on speed dating.

-          A Fistful of Warlocks

-          B is for Bigfoot

-          AAAA Wizardry

-          I was a Teenage Bigfoot

-          Curses

-          Even Hand

-          Bigfoot on Campus

-          Bombshells

-          Cold Case

-          Jury Duty

-          Day One

-          Zoo Day

Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard (2000) Delacorte Press

Father Terry Dunn isn't really a priest.  But no one seems to know that.  He left for missionary work in Africa shortly after the other two guys in an illegal cigarette trafficking scheme blamed him for everything when all he did was drive the truck.  Now, five years later, with his uncle, an actual priest he was visiting has died and he was saying mass in place of the old man, when the Hutu's raided the church and slaughtered the Tutsi congregation, he comes back to America, showing pictures of the starving pagan babies to raise money.