The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

 Missing for over two years, teenager Ellie Black reappears in the Washington woods, but cannot, or will not, say where she's been.

4.5 stars.

Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon

 Disgraced and stripped of her medical license, Maggie McCabe, grieving the murder of her husband, agrees to fly to Russia to perform surgery on an oligarch and his mistress.

4 stars.

King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

 A mother's disappearance has lasting effects on a family.  When the youngest child gets involved with drug dealers, his older brother must return home to Virginia from his prosperous life in Atlanta.  

I was surprised at how unflatteringly Black characters are portrayed by this Black author: drug dealing, drug using, adultery, murder, securities fraud.  

4 stars.