FICTION
1. The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday) A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
2. Sting, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) A hired killer and a woman he kidnapped join forces to elude FBI agents and others who are searching for her corrupt brother.
3. Curious Minds, by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton. (Bantam) The first of a new series featuring Emerson Knight, an eccentric millionaire, and Riley Moon, an analyst at a megabank.
4. The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware. (Scout) A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her.
5. Truly Madly Guilty, by Liane Moriarty. (Flatiron) Three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.
6. Damaged, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin's) In the 15th Rosato & DiNunzio novel, Mary DiNunzio defends a dyslexic fifth-grader accused of attacking a school aide.
7. Bullseye, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown) While the U.S. president is in New York to meet with his Russian counterpart, detective Michael Bennett must stop a team of assassins.
8. Insidious, by Catherine Coulter. (Gallery Books) Two cases — one concerning an attempted poisoning in Washington and another about the hunt for a serial killer in Los Angeles — are the focus of Coulter's 20th FBI thriller.