Adult Virtual New Book Shelf: NYT Fiction Best Sellers

The private detective Holly Gibney investigates whether a married pair of octogenarian academics had anything to do with Bonnie Dahl’s disappearance.

Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

The 22nd book in the Mitch Rapp series. Rapp and his team try to foil a plot by Russia without being discovered.

Three daughters, who return to their family orchard in the spring of 2020, learn about their mother’s relationship with a famous actor.

A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.

In a world where only nine cities were spared divine destruction, Calista must decide whether to follow her intuition to safety or court calamity by pursuing a love.

A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

A servant girl, who escapes with almost nothing from a colonial settlement, finds the beliefs she learned are tested.

Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.

Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well.

In 1873, a Scottish housekeeper to a once-famous novelist is captivated by a trial in which a lower-class butcher from Australia claims to be the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title.

The 57th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas looks into the death of an internal affairs captain.

In 1942 London, 18-year-old Nellie Morris has a chance encounter with an American airman.

When her granddaughter finds a dead body while kayaking, a convalescing Los Angeles businesswoman tries to uncover the truth.

Suspicions and accusations complicate a sheriff’s investigation of a wealthy landowner’s murder in a small Minnesota town in 1958.