“The Waiting,” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown): Harry Bosch is suffering from cancer, but don’t count him out. There’s another Bosch in the wings: daughter Maddie, a cop. She’s just volunteered to work with Renee Ballard in the Open-Unsolved unit. The two Bosches don’t work together, but both back up Renee. In “The Waiting,” she needs it.

First, Renee’s badge and gun are stolen while she’s surfing. But instead of reporting the theft, Renee’s determined to solve it herself. It’s not so simple, however, as she and Harry discover when a robbery turns into a terrorist plot. Then Maddie finds a series of photographs showing the torture and murder of Los Angeles’ famous 1940s Black Dahlia victim. They all but identify the killer, but closing the case isn’t so easy when Los Angeles politics comes into play.

Finally, Renee and her team determine that DNA from a minor criminal identify him as the son of the Pillowcase Rapist, a 20-year-old case. The problem is the young man is also the son of a prominent judge.

It’s a complicated set of mysteries, but like most of Connelly’s mysteries, the smooth writing makes “The Waiting” a book you can’t put down.

“Robert Parker’s Buzz Kill,” by Alison Gaylin (Putnam): In her second Sunny Randall mystery, Alison Gaylin gives the detective what ought to be a simple task: find a lazy, obnoxious rich boy who’s disappeared. He’s Dylan Welch, founder of Gonzo, an energy drink company in Boston. Sunny met Dylan in a previous novel and doesn’t want the assignment. Dylan’s wealthy mother convinces her to take it, paying her an astronomical figure.

The mother and Gonzo COO Sky Farley, Dylan’s friend since college, are the only ones who seem to care if Dylan is found. In fact, Dylan has been making threatening calls to employees on a burner phone. Sunny’s search goes nowhere until a Gonzo chemist is murdered. Then Sky is shot. Is the killer a disgruntled employee or maybe the mafia, which is tracking Sunny?

Sunny’s faced with an equally challenging personal problem. Her ex-husband wants her to move to New Jersey so they can try again. But will Sunny give up an exciting career for love?

“A Grave in the Woods,” by Martin Walker (Knopf): Ah, to be the chief of police in a little French town. Bruno spends his time cooking, dining with friends, sitting in delightful little cafes and raising chickens. And when he’s not otherwise engaged, he solves mysteries.

No wonder the “Bruno, Chief of Police” series is so popular.

In “A Grave in the Woods,” Bruno opens a long-forgotten grave from World War II. Inside are the skeletons of a man in a Nazi uniform and two females, who had been buried naked. Bruno’s tasked with finding out who they were and what happened to them. He enlists the aid of Abby, an American archaeologist. She’s a newcomer to France, escaping a controlling ex-husband.

Amid all this, the river is rising. Climate change is causing torrential rains that fill the rivers, and the French town is in danger of being flooded. Of course, Bruno is in the middle of it all, despite recovering from a wound inflicted in the last book.

“A Grave in the Woods” is such a delightful read that you don’t realize Bruno may have overlooked the mystery of who’s in the grave.

“Two Good Men,” by S.E. Redfearn (Blackstone): What if two guys facing each other on either side of the law are both good men?

Dee testified against a pedophile neighbor. The neighbor gets out of prison and threatens to rape and kill both her and her son. Her brother, Dick, vows to keep them safe. With no other options, he sneaks into the offender’s house and poisons his orange juice. Police write it off as a natural death. But Dick is hooked.

A scientist, he develops a formula to determine which recently released offenders are liable to repeat. Then he sets out to stop them, with murder if necessary.

Enter Steve, an FBI agent tasked with ensuring the rights of released prisoners. He quickly realizes Dick has killed the neighbor. He holds back, however, because he’s fallen in love with Dick’s sister. But what does he do when Dick goes after another offender?

The dilemma, of course, is both are good men. So the mystery is how can this end?

Sandra Dallas is a Denver-based author and book reviewer.