FICTION
1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) A woman who survived alone in a marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. The Inn, by James Patterson and Candice Fox. (Little, Brown) A former Boston police detective who is now an innkeeper must shield a seaside town from a crew of criminals.
3. The Bitterroots, by C.J. Box. (Minotaur) The fourth book in the "Cassie Dewell" series. The black sheep of an influential family is accused of assault.
4. One Good Deed, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
5. The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday) Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
6. The Turn of the Key, by Ruth Ware. (Scout) A nanny working in a technology-laden house in Scotland goes to jail when one of the children dies.
7. The New Girl, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) Gabriel Allon, chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
8. Outfox, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central) FBI agent Drex Easton has a hunch that con man Weston Graham is also a serial killer.