FICTION
1. Apprentice in Death, by J.D. Robb. (Berkley) Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD calls on the technological expertise of her husband when three skaters are shot by a sniper. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
2. Razor Girl, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf) Ex-cop Andrew Yancy gets involved in a kidnapping gone wrong.
3. The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday) A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
4. A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur) A police academy instructor is found murdered, perhaps by one of the cadets favored by Armand Gamache, retired homicide chief of the Sûreté du Québec.
5. 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.
6. Rushing Waters, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) Six people cope with a hurricane in New York City.
7. Here I Am, by Jonathan Safran Foer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Private and public crises converge for four generations of a Jewish family.
8. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. (Viking) A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest in the Metropol hotel, across from the Kremlin.