Her One Mistake

Heidi Perks (fiction, Gallery Books)

Charlotte was watching the kids at the school fair; her three kids, and her best friend Harriet’s daughter Alice. She took her eyes off them for one minute, but in that time, Alice disappears.

The Break Line

James Brabazon (fiction, Berkley)

Max McLean is a hardened British intelligence operative, used to assassinating terrorists. He’s never missed — until now. As punishment for this one miscalculation, his handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a mission that seems both dangerous and impossible.

The Temp

Michelle Frances (fiction, Kensington)

Carrie is a TV producer at the top of her game; Emma is an ambitious twentysomething. When she gets a temporary gig covering for Carrie’s maternity leave — and working with Carrie’s talented screenwriter husband and partner — she will do whatever it takes to hang on to this golden opportunity.

Ill Will

Michael Stewart (fiction, HQ)

What’s Heathcliff’s side of the story? With “Ill Will,” fans of “Wuthering Heights” will find out. As he travels across the moors in search of his past, a second look at the sulky Brontë villain.

The World According to Fannie Davis

Bridgett M. Davis (memoir, Little, Brown)

For 34 years, Bridgett Davis’ mom, Fannie, ran a numbers racket out of her apartment in one of Detroit’s poorest neighborhoods. While the business was illegal, Fannie survived and thrived, raising five kids and a grandson with wit, style and a motto: “Dying is easy. Living takes guts.”

Restoration Heights

Wil Medearis (Fiction, Hanover Square Press)

Reddick is a young artist living in gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant. He is the last person to see Hannah before she disappears. When he sets out to discover what happened to her, he’s drawn into a mystery that takes him into different worlds.