I just finished "Blow Fly" by Patricia Cornwell. It's a Kay Scarpetta novel, and I couldn't put it down. It started off kind of slow, but once it got going it had me hooked.
Before that one I read "The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of one Orphan Saved the Life of Another." It's about a little girl who was adopted from China at age 3 or 4 and would not let her new parents forget "her" baby boy in China, a boy she was "responsible" for at the orphanage. My daughter is also Chinese and this book should come with a box of tissues. Very heartwarming.
Carol