The author of Los Alamos and The Good German takes readers to pre-World War II Shanghai in this atmospheric suspense tale. After his father is shot by Nazis, former resistance fighter Daniel Lohr flees Berlin for China, where he is taken in by his uncle, who runs a successful casino. Daniel soon finds himself caught up in a criminal underworld, a whirlwind romance - and then the war starts.

Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast by Thomas E. Ricks

Celebrated journalist and military historian Ricks tries his hand at a new genre in this crime novel. It’s set in Maine, where a grieving FBI agent named Ryan Tepia is restarting his life. When a fisherman’s corpse shows up on federal land, Tepia is pulled into a case involving drugs, rare fish and the tensions between Maine’s white and Native American communities.

You Are Here by David Nicholls

Nicholls, the British writer whose novels include One Day, a long-running bestseller that was adapted into both a feature film and a Netflix series, returns with the story of two heartbroken strangers, Michael and Marnie, who get to know each other on a long, multiday walk through the English countryside. That a romance develops is not entirely surprising, but Nicholls is a master of hard-won love stories, and this one doesn’t disappoint.

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At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning With China by Edward Wong

Wong’s memoir traces the journey of his father, who came of age under Mao, as well as the arc of the author’s own relationship to China, where he lived and worked while reporting for The New York Times. In telling this personal story about family memory, exile and return, the book also takes in the breadth of the country’s evolution during the 20th century.

The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

Delphie is not having a great day. The lonely Londoner was eating a suspicious looking microwaveable hamburger when she began to choke and lost consciousness. Now she’s stuck in an afterlife holding area that looks like a laundromat. The one silver lining? There’s an extremely attractive man there, and he could be her ticket back to the land of the living.