If you like dogs I highly recommend a book called Sight Hound. One of my favorite books I read last year
http://www.pamhouston.net/sighthound.html
Another one of my favorites I read recently was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It's a really neat book. Combination thriller/afterlife mystery.
Also I like Michael Connelly and John Sanford. I wish John Sanford would write faster!
http://www.johnsandford.org/