Books like Gain by Richard Powers

In 1714 London, Daniel Waterhouse returns from the Americas to confront a covert war between Isaac Newton’s Master of the Mint and his counterfeiting rival, Jack the Coiner, whose schemes threaten Britain’s fledgling monetary system.

Jackson Garrett, a confirmed bachelor, discovers he has a daughter after his former lover, Kelly Cooper, returns to his hometown. As they navigate custody, past feelings, and the longing for family, new love and old promises collide.

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, Scarpetta realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out ...

During a reunion of high‑school girls, suburban single‑mom Jane Jeffry uncovers a murder linked to a senior‑year scandal, forcing her to solve a crime before more alumni die.